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    Generalitat de Catalunya

    Departament d’Educació
    SES Pla Marcell
    English- Optativa 1er ESO

    Let’s talk about time!


    Expressing time

    It is twelve o’clock It is twelve fifteen It is twelve thirty It is twelve forty-five


    or or or
    A quarter past twelve Half past twelve A quarter to one

    Exactly or about?
    14.00: It is exactly two o’clock/ It is exactly 2 p.m.
    14.28: It is about two thirty/It is about 2.30 p.m.
    How to ask time

    - Excuse me. What time is it - Excuse me. Do you have the - Excuse me. Could you tell
    please? time please? me the time please?

    - It is exactly eight - It is half past twelve / It is - It is about half past eleven /


    o’clock/It’s eight twelve thirty It is about eleven thirty

    Exercice 1: telling the time


    Now, it is exactly /It is about nine fourte five a.m./ ten o'clock.
    I wake up at seven o'clock.
    School starts at eight fourte five a.m.
    I have lunch at two o'clock.

    1
    I go to bed at twelve o'clock.

    Exercice 2
    Tell the time in english http://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=3icBxO6Wjz0&feature=related
    11.25: twenty five past eleven.

    8.15: a quarter past eight.

    2.40: twenty to three.

    6.30: half past six.

    4.50: ten to five.

    The times of the day

    Morning Afternoon Evening Night

    00.01-12.00 12.01-18.00 18.01-22.00 22.01-24.00

    Prepositions used with time

    At a point of time In a lenght of time


    Let’s
    meet at
    When twelve It is I will be
    shall we thirty twelve ready in
    meet? forty- an hour.
    Let’s five.
    meet at When
    half past will you
    twelve be ready?

    I go to work in the morning


    I go home in the evening

    2
    I have lunch in the afternoon
    I go to sleep at night
    Categories of time
    In is used for years, months, lengths of time...1989, april, simmer, winter.
    On is used for days of the week sunday, monday.
    At is used for concrete moments of time wikend.

    Practice the categories of time

    Complete the table:

    In On At
    March Saturday 4 o’clock
    The morning Wednesday evening Half past six
    Two minutes Tuesday morning The weekend
    September Friday Midnight
    1914 March 1st A quarter past twelve
    Autum Monday 02/01/30
    Christmas

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