How to tell time
Topic Notes
In this lesson, we will learn:
- A review on saying times of the exact hours (oclock) and parts of the days (in the morning, afternoon, evening or at night)
- How to say the time by: naming the number of hours and minutes (reading left to right), naming the minutes after the hour, or naming the minutes until the next hour
- The special ways of saying half and quarter hours: quarter past, quarter to, and half past
Notes:
- There are many ways to say the time.
- The simplest way to tell time is when the clock is on an exact hour (i.e. 12:00, 3:00; minute hand is on 12) you can simply call it as the number oclock (ex. 12 oclock, three oclock)
- We can also say AM and PM as the part of the day instead:
- in the morning for 6AM to 11:59AM
- noon for 12:00PM
- in the afternoon for 12:01PM to 5:00PM
- in the evening for 5:01PM to 8:00PM
- at night for 8:01PM to 5:59AM
- midnight for 12:00AM
- Saying the hour is easythe focus on the minutes. Three ways to tell time are by writing: 1. # hours # minutes
- Ex. 1:35 can be said as (1) one thirty-five, (2) thirty-five minutes after one, or (3) twenty-five minutes to two
- There are special ways to say half or quarter hours
- When the minutes are :15 we say quarter after the hour
- When the minutes are :30 we say half past the hour
- When the minutes are :45 we say quarter to the next hour
- Ex. (9:15 is quarter past nine), (6:30 is half past 6), (7:45 is quarter to eight)
- Although there are many ways to tell the time, there is usually one way that is said more commonly than the rest.
- The most common way to tell times is summarized in the figure below for the positions of the minute hand on the clock.
- If the minutes are :01 → :30 its common to say the minutes after the hour
- If the minutes are :31 → :59 its common to say the minutes to the next hour
2. # minutes after/past the hour
3. # minutes until/to the next hour
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