How To Tell The Time In English: English Vocabulary

In this tutorial for beginners and learners are going to learn an English Vocabulary Lesson on “How to tell the Time in English” correctly. This tutorial comes with a downloadable PPT and video presentation to discuss more about telling time in English.

Watch the video here before you proceed.

https://youtu.be/nClfUNCfuO0

How do you ask for the time? Below are different ways to ask the time to somebody.

We use “at + time” when giving the time of a specific event. We use “It is” or “It’s” to answer a question that asks for the time right now.

Here are some examples on how to tell or ask time in English.

What time is it?
Do you have the time?

What time do you make it?
Have you got the time?
What’s the time?

Have you got the right time?

What time is it?

What time is it?

What time is it?

If the number of minutes is not an exact multiple of five (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30) So we say “minutes past”

What time is it?

What time is it?

What time is it?

If the number of minutes is not an exact multiple of five (35, 40, 45, 50, 55) then we say “minutes to”

What time is it?

Summary

Time of the day

Time of the day

24-hour clock

In Great Britain, people don’t often use the 24- hour clock.

They only use the 24-hour clock:

In timetables (trains, flights)

In the military

They only use the second method of telling the time:

19:50 “nineteen fifty”

“ten to twenty”. X

Downloadable Materials

Download the Telling Time in English PPT Presentation used in this tutorial here.

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