‘TIME’ FOR A ‘DATE’!

Pattern Example
• The meeting starts at 9:00.
at + clock time
Clock • Come to my house at 7:30 pm.
Time at + noon • We eat lunch at noon.
at + midnight • I am usually asleep at midnight.
at + night • We watch TV at night.
Other
• Take off your hat at dinnertime.
Times at + dinnertime/ lunchtime
• She wants pizza at lunchtime.

Pattern Example
• We have free time on Mondays.
• I play cricket on (a) Poya Day.
on + day
• They unwrap presents on Christmas Day.
Days
• My son always eats chocolate cake on his birthday.
on + the weekend / • He has hockey practice on the weekend.
weekends • I study English on (the) weekends.
• She has class on September 10.
• I am going to a party on the first of July.
Dates on + date
• He has a doctor’s appointment on Monday, December 2.
• They got a new car on January 10, 2014.

Pattern Example
in + the morning • I have a shower in the morning.
Time of Day in + the afternoon • You have the English class in the afternoon.
in + the evening • We study in the evening.
Months in + month • My birthday is in June.
and Years in + year • She went to Europe in 2015.
• We go camping in the summer.
Seasons in + season
• They like to ski in the wintertime.

TIME

• What time is it?

✓ It’s 1 o’clock (in the morning) [… at one o’clock] [… by one o’clock]

✓ It’s 1.05 pm.
✓ It’s 1.15. / It’s quarter past one.
✓ It’s 1.30./ It’s half past one.
✓ It’s 1.45./ It’s quarter to 2.00.

✓ It’s noon.
✓ It’s midnight.

Rozanne Vangrenberg
 DESCRIPTIONS

Appearance/ Personality
Age Weather Opinion Material Other
Size/ Weight / Emotion
attractive old happy hot better glass loud
bald young sad wet unusual wooden soft
beautiful middle-aged excited dry amazing silver quiet
chubby babyish scared cold rare plastic noisy
fat teenage frightened rainy disgusting metallic speechless
fit ancient outgoing freezing rich bitter
flabby youthful funny chilly poor salty
gorgeous elderly grumpy humid evil tasty
handsome mature cheerful foggy important delicious
large old-fashioned carefree windy lovely yummy
muscular 12-year-old jolly stormy valuable tasteless
obese new lonely calm useful spicy
ordinary modern talkative sunny useless hard
plain rowdy clear good smooth
presentable nice cloudy better rough
scruffy damp best quick
shapely misty bad fast
short dark worse slow
skinny warm worst hasty
slender wonderful light
smart uncomfortable dark
tall comfortable bright
thin splendid shiny
well-built clean colourless
tiny awful transparent
heavy fantastic punctual
round pretty
ugly
dirty
difficult

Adjective order

1. Quantity or number 2. Opinion 3. Size 4. Age 5. Shape 6. Colour

5. Material 6. Nationality

E.g.
• a handsome young man
• a big black car
• that horrible big dog
• a silly old man
• those horrible yellow curtains
• The playroom has six small round plastic tables.

Rozanne Vangrenberg