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TELLING THE TIME

 Asking the time

Here are some phrases you can use when you want to know the time:

• What's the time?
• What time is it?

Telling the time

To tell someone what the time is, we can say "The time is..." or, more usually, "It's...". Here is a typical dialogue:

Question:	What's the time, please?
Answer:	It's three o'clock.

The chart below shows you two different ways to tell someone what the time is.

	more formal	less formal
	It's...	It's...
3.00	three o'clock	three
3.03	three minutes past three	three oh three
3.05	five past three	three oh five
3.10	ten past three	three ten
3.15	a quarter past three	three fifteen
3.20	twenty past three	three twenty
3.25	twenty-five past three	three twenty-five
3.30	half past three	three thirty
3.35	twenty-five to four	three thirty-five
3.40	twenty to four	three forty
3.45	a quarter to four	three forty-five
3.50	ten to four	three fifty
3.55	five to four	three fifty-five
3.57	three minutes to four	three fifty-seven
4.00	four o'clock	four

WATCH AND LEARN TO TELL THE TIME

 Telling Time Exercise

GAME: Stop the clock

PARTS OF THE DAY

in the morning	the early part of the day
at noon	12 o'clock, midday
in the afternoon	part of the day after the morning
in the evening	late part of the day
at night	part of the day when most people sleep

EXERCISES ABOUT TIME

1.  Time

2.  Telling the time 6 exercises

3.  Telling the Time
4. Write the time 

DAYS OF THE WEEK

	Day	Abbreviation
weekdays	Monday	Mon.	Mo.
	Tuesday	Tue.	Tu.
	Wednesday	Wed.	We.
	Thursday	Thu.	Th.
	Friday	Fri.	Fr.
weekend	Saturday	Sat.	Sa.
	Sunday

 EXERCISES

1.Write the days in order:

Wednesday - Saturday - Monday - Friday - Tuesday - Sunday - Thursday

1)Monday 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7)

2.Which days are school days?

Thursday  Saturday  Wednesday  Sunday  Monday  Friday  Tuesday

7. Complete the words:

MNA

TEDY

WDEDY

TUSA

FIA

STRA

SNA