الدرس الثامن : English Course - Telling the Time in English

[Nermeen]

Telling the Time



We measure the time in seconds, minutes and hours.



There are 24 hours in a day.



There are 60 minutes in an hour.



There are 60 seconds in a minute.



To tell the time you usually use a clock

ساعة الحائط

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or a watch

ساعة اليد


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There are analogue clocks and watches and there are digital clocks and watches.

Analogue clock :
الساعة التقليدية اي التي بها عقارب
لتشير الى الساعات والدقائق والثواني


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Analogue clocks and watches often have numbers on the "face" to show the hours and lines to show the minutes. An analogue clock also has "hands", a short hand to show the hour, a longer hand to show the minutes, and sometimes a long thin hand to show the seconds.



Digital watch:
وهي الساعة الرقمية او الالكترونية

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Digital clocks and watches show the exact hours and minutes in numbers. They use 24 hours and sixty minutes to show the time



The time of the day:


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Morning time:1 to 11.59 am

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Afternoon time: 12.01 to 6 pm
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Evening time: 6.01 to 10 pm
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Night time :10.01 to 11.59 pm


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12 o'clock is noon (daytime) or midnight (night).


to be continue .............

[Nermeen]

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Telling the time to the half hour or quarter hour

There are 15 minutes in quarter of an hour.
There are 30 minutes in half an hour.
There are 45 minutes in three quarters of an hour.
When it's past the hour (up to 30 minutes past) we say "past".
When it's before the hour (after 30 minutes past) we say "to".
30 minutes is half an hour, we say "half past" or "thirty".
15 minutes is quarter of an hour.
At 15 minutes past the hour we say "quarter past" or "fifteen".
At fifteen minutes to the hour we say "quarter to" or "forty-five".






Examples:





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Twelve o'clock
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Twelve fifteen or Quarter past twelve
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Twelve thirty or half past twelve
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Twelve forty-five or Quarter to twelve
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How to ask about the time and to answer:

Exactly or about :



Exactly = تماما


02:00
Exactly two o'clock


About = تقريبا


02:28
About two thirty

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Exercises:

The question will be:

Excuse me, what time is it please?

or

Excuse me, what is the time now?




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It's exactly eight o'clock
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It's eight
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It's about half past eleven
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It's about eleven thirty
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It's half past twelve
or
It's twelve thirty



There are 24 hours in a day, but only the military, police and computer programmers use the 24-hour clock. When writing or speaking generally we tend to use the 12-hour clock. The 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called a.m. (Latin "ante meridian" | English: "before mid day") and p.m. (Latin "post meridian" | English: "after mid day").
The way people write the time varies. I prefer a.m. and p.m




Some people (myself included) use a dot as the separator: 2.30 pm.
Some people use a colon as the separator: 2:30 pm.
The colon is usually used with the 24-hour clock: 14:30.



نهاية الدرس الثامن بفضل الله ولو فيه اي سؤال
ان شاء الله انا مستعدة
جزاكم الله خيرا

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[Nermeen]

للرفع
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[khaledbelal]

ما شاء الله جزيتم عنا كل خير اختنا

استفدت من هذه النقطة كثيرا

there are 24 hours in a day, but only the military, police and computer programmers use the 24-hour clock. When writing or speaking generally we tend to use the 12-hour clock. The 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called a.m. (latin "ante meridian" | english: "before mid day") and p.m. (latin "post meridian" | english: "after mid day").
The way people write the time varies. I prefer a.m. And p.m

في ميزان حسناتكم ان شاء الله

[المشتاقة للجنة]

It's about quarter to twelve
twelve forty-six
هذه الساعة عندي الان وانا اكتب الرد
جزيتي عنا خيرا اخيتي افدتنا بكيفية قول الساعة شكرا لك

[Nermeen]

نفعنا الله جميعا

وجزاكم خيرا
اختي المشتاقة


It's about quarter to twelve
يعني الساعة الثانية عشرة الا ربع
اي ستكون احدى عشر وست واربعون دقيقة
اذا اذا اردنا نكتبها بطريقة تانية
ستكون

11:46

Eleven forty six

[المشتاقة للجنة]

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله
بارك الرحمن بك اخيتي