How to say the time in English
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- What's the time right now? Can you answer this question quickly, without making a mistake? Watch and learn how to talk about time in English. Understand the two ways to express 1:15, 1:30, or 1:45. Make appointments or talk about schedules confidently and clearly. Answer this common question without stress or confusion, starting right now! Test yourself with the quiz at www.engvid.com...
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Hi. I'm Rebecca from www.engvid.com. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to tell time in English. Okay? So, for example, if someone tells you: "I'll meet you at ten to ten", what does that mean? What is "ten to ten"? We're going to find out. Okay? Let's go.
All right, so here's the clock that I've drawn. Excuse my drawing, but what time does it say? Okay. So, let's examine the clock. So, this is called the hour hand - it shows the hour; and this is called the minute hand. Okay? The shorter hand is the hour hand, and the longer hand is the minute hand. All right.
And right now the hour hand is pointed to 2, and this is pointed to 12, so that means it is 2 o'clock. All right? So, as we go around, it would be 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, and 12 o'clock. Now, if you just say: "12 o'clock"... If you don't know what it's like outside - is it dark? Is it 12 o'clock at night? Is it 12 o'clock in the afternoon? So, sometimes when it's 12, we just say: "Twelve noon" or "Midnight". Okay? If it's night, we say: "Midnight". But we'll get to that.
Now, there are many things you need to know in order to be able to say the time or express time correctly. All right? So, let's go through what they are. So, as I said, first of all, if it's a complete hour, on the hour, then just say the hour-the number-plus "o'clock". All right? That's the expression. 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock. Right?
Now, then let's start going by five-minute intervals around the clock and see what happens. So, here we would say: "Two oh five". Say it after me: "Two oh five". Good. The next one: "Two ten". Okay? That would be here. "Two ten". Then here: "Two fifteen, two twenty, twenty-five, two thirty, two thirty-five, two forty, two forty-five, two fifty, two fifty-five". Okay? So, we're going by five-minute intervals right now. And it could be something in between; it could be "two twelve", or it could be "two twenty-three", but usually people round off to those... These numbers, here. Okay?
So, one way that you can tell the time, and I think it's the easiest, as long as you know these basic numbers up to 59, but certainly the numbers by five, is just to say that: -"Two oh five." -"What's the time?" -"It's two fifteen. It's two fifty. It's two forty." Okay? "Two forty-five", and so on. That's the easy way, and you can say that, but you might hear people using another expression or a few other expressions as well, so let me explain those to you.
So, as I said, this you can call: "Two fifteen" or: "Quarter past two". So, why are we saying that? Because in this method what we're doing is we're dividing the clock into quarters. Okay? Like this and like this. So, when it's 2:15, it's a quarter past two or a quarter after two - after two o'clock, but we don't have to say: "after two o'clock", we can just say at that point: "It's a quarter past two. It's a quarter after two." Okay?
Then, when it comes to 2:30, we could say: "It's two thirty", or we could say: "It's half", right? Half from the 12 to the 6: "It's half past two"; that's how we express that. And at 2:45, we can also say: "It's a quarter to three. Quarter to". Now, anything after the 6... You see this other arrow, here? From here to the 12, we have to say something "to". "Quarter to twelve. Quarter to three." Okay? It would be quarter to three if it was 2:45. All right? Or: "Twenty-five minutes to three". You could say that, but those you'll probably just hear people saying: "Two thirty-five, two forty", and so on. But on these quarter and half, people do use these other expressions. Okay? So, again: "Quarter past two. Half past two. Quarter to three." Okay?
Now, remember when I said: "Ten to ten"? So that was 10 minutes to 10... 10 minutes to 10 o'clock. All right? 10 minutes before 10 o'clock. So, when people say: "Ten to ten" - 10 minutes to 10. It's not used very often, but sometimes people just use it in short. Okay? All right.
Let's look at a couple of other things you might see when talking about the time. So, when we're going from 12 midnight to about 11:59 in the afternoon, that period of time is referred to as "am - ante meridiem", but don't worry about what it stands for; people just say "am" and "pm". Ante meridiem and post meridiem. Don't worry about those. […]
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Amazing teacher. Thanks a lot. I like your lessons for their precision and clarity. Continue helping us improve our English. God Bless you with long life and strong health.
I think it is also worth mentioning that o’clock is a short form of “of the clock”)) Not knowing that I was not sure whether I use it correctly :)
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This is fun I love clocks my sister reads the clock for me I am 6 I will always watch this I love u 😁😁😁🥰😍🤩😘 maje more
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Ma'am Rebecca is my favourite English teacher. Her lessons are easy to understand. I admire you teacher rebecca. Thank you very much!
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I’m 17 struggled with adhd throughout all of school and during primary school after learning time all the kids knew how to tell time apart from me and i got no additional support for it. This helped massively thank you
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In Thailand, it's a whole new ball game. 7 pm is 1 o'clock, 8 is 2...9 is 3, 10 is 4 and 11 pm is 5 o'clock. So when visiting, beware if you ask the airport taxi driver to pick you up at 9, they might pick you up at 9 am instead of pm! 😁
تقدري تهدري او تشرحي شوية بالعربية شكرا درس مفهوم بسك عونونبي بش فهمت الكلمات شكرا جزيلا لمعيا يدير لايك
I love you mam, God bless you
This video is perfect ,easy to understand. Thank you!!
Having to organise a Lesson plan on this topic I found this video a very helpful guide thank you for the guide. Have a great day regards from Ireland :)
This helped me a lot but i can't understand is there something like two oh four or two oh six and sorry if i have mistakes in my comment
I’m confused
I could speak fluently, but did not know how to say 1:05 pm 😭
Thku so much mam your sound is very nice
thank you very much. so helpful
Good class, greetings from Chile!
thans for the time
u made me understand this shitttt
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Thank you so much teacher.
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Excellent! nice and very easy explanation. 👌👌
Why i don't can turn on subtitle english and etc
Its so much clearer when you say that way instead quarter to, past etc...
so confsuing, why dont we say 8: 35 ( For example ) as eight-thirthy five + AM/PM
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Hi teacher Rebecca, thank you for the upload and I really like to follow all your lessons. Could you pls make a lesson on the usage of "ask" and "ask for"? For me, it's very complicated when to omit the preposition and when to use it with "ask". Thank you in advance!
Clear and simple, as a Spanish speaker it's easy the way you explain for me, thanks, you've got a new subscriber
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nice and informative video, MYM
Very easy !I always watch your video and get many useful for my English!!!
I am doing time in zoom classed
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Your lessons are always so clear. Thanks a lot! 😊
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Very nice amd easy explanation with practice.... I like the way you teach...
mam you are teaching in perfect way. i like that. but i have been confused in some things .
I like the way you teach us about how to say time in English, u make it easier to learn and understand 😍
Yeay its make me more understand😁💚
Why does 12:00AM follow 11:59PM instead of 12:00PM which would make much more sense? On the other side why does 12:00PM follow 11:59AM while 12:00AM would make more sense, them we could say 1, 2, 3 ... minute after midnight or 1,2,3... afternoon.
Thankyou for the teaching 🤗💐🌸🌺
It's funny, in Portuguese, we have a pretty similar way of expressing this, but I have to admit, I struggle A LOT with it in English. I know it's absolutely basic, but I still take too much time thinking about what it means when I hear a native speaker saying...
thanks a lot, it seemed you were teaching at our class room . very happy learnt many things ty again
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My younger brother asked me what to say in English at 11:40 so i said quarter of 12 but i was wrong , When I watched this entire video, I came to know that it is not called quarter of 12 its called quarter to 12 thankyou soo much mam & i'm your new subscriber 😊 May you always remain healthy and keep laughing and keep teaching us children like this.
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Thanks mam
Nice Ma'am please make a video on the topic clauses the types of clauses because I find it very difficult when you explain it will it will be easy
It's easy to understand what ma'am Rebbecca saying the time and bless you! I love ur vids
Thank you for lesson
Amazing Explaination
hello everyone, if I say "two five" for 2:05, is it still OK?
No. Its must two oh five
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I have a question that if we say 2:45 as a two forty five , would it be correct or not ??
Take a hint
you have two correct answers 1- its quarter to three or two forty five both are correct.
Thanks a lot teacher Rebecca. (20Nov2020, Azores Islands, Portugal);
Mam how to tell 8:13
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Could you tell me from where you are taking these classes?
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You're channeling me I'm from Virginia and she's from Tennessee yes he had abandonment issues and everything else as child so yeah
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Thank you so much mam .... explained very well
Easy to understand.. Thank you so much.
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Why is the title "How to say the time in English" and not "How to tell time in English" or "How to tell the time in English"?
Would you mind to teach us the difference between British Vs American telling the time?
Thank you mam
Very easy teaching for non-natives☺
Miss Rebecca's lessons are nice but this video didn't tell us how to read the time.......
I have a BA in english and it is the first time i learn time telling the right way
Thank you Mrs. Rebecca
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The only think that I don't understand is why this video has 170 dislikes
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Thank you I love you I need to o’clock learn
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I want to how to correct grammar order writing English bcz I haven't writing correct sentence plz make a vedio
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Could you please explain how to say it correctly: It's quarter to 5 or It's a quarter to 5. It's half past 8 or a It's a half past 8 etc. And if it's different without It's (quarter past 3 or a quarter paast 3 etc)
you have to use articles in these cases
It’s quarter to 5 is 4:45 and half past 8 is 8:30
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If I'll go to USA, I'll try to say "60 to 8 am".
is it correct to say ten ten (10:10), eleven eleven (11:11), twelve twelve (12:12)???
10:10=>9:50
Is it correct to say - not more than 11am? Or no later than 11am? Both are correct??
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Thank you Mam, it's really helpful. ❤
I am Brazilian and I am still learning but I already know how to speak a lot .... I always had difficulty but it was very clear tysm!
Hi madam I have quistion how could I say. Where does Donald trump stand in the list of president of America. (I would like to ask Donald trump At which batch president of the usa. It's something like that. How could I asked... Please madam. I want help.......?
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It's clearly understand.....
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