Unit 5 – Events and Times

1) Lets Remember the nummbers in English:

2) Look the examples below:

6.00 - T
It's six o'clock … O'CLOCK 6.40 - PA
It's twenty to seven
6.10FIVE
- It's
TO…ten past six 6.40 - It's twenty to seven
6.15 - O
It's a quarter past six ST
FIVE PAST…

TEN TO… TEN PAST…

a QUARTER TO… a QUARTER PAST…

TWENTY TO… TWENTY PAST…

TWENTY-FIVE TO… TWENTY-FIVE PAST…

HALF PAST…

REMEMBER!
15 minutes =a quarter a.m.- in the morning
30 minutes = half p.m.-in the afternoon ,in the evening

3) Choose the correct answer:

 4) Draw the times on the clocks:

5) What time is it?

a) Five forty-two ______________________
b) Three twelve_______________________
c) Eleven-twenty-eight__________________
d) A quarter after two___________________
e) Half past fiv e________________________

6) Check True (T) or False (F):

8) Choose the correct date of the historical facts below and write the dates using
cardinal and ordinal numbers (page 40 of Top Notch)

15/04/1865 7/12/1941 1/10/1949 6/03/1876

20/06/1969 24/11/1859 3/10/1990 23/10/1990
25/12/1991 29/10/1929

Example: May 10, 2013 - May 13th 

- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) published The Origin of Species ___________

___________

-Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. ___________
___________
- President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is assassinated in Washington DC by
John Wilkes ___________ ___________

- Black Tuesday: the most disastrous day in the stock market's history. Billions of
dollars in open market values disappeared. ___________ ___________

-Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web by creating the first WWW server at
CERN in Geneva. ___________ ___________

- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor by surprise. United States enters World War II.
___________ ___________

- “Come here, Watson, I want you": First words transmitted by Alexander Graham
Bell (1847-1922) through a telephone. ___________ ___________

-German people attacked the Berlin Wall with hammers and rocks until the wall
came down and the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist.

- Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) declared his country the People's Republic of China.
___________ ___________

- The Soviet Union and the Soviet Communist party officially ceased to exist.
___________ ___________

Do you remember any other important dates in history?

___________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________
7) Connect the Daily Routine Chart and answer the questions below:

WAKE UP

TAKE A SHOWER

DRESS UP

TAKE THE BREAKFAST

CHECK THE NEWSPAPERS

TAKE THE BUS

GET INTO THE OFFICE

DO PAPERWORK

HAVE LUNCH

LEAVE THE OFFICE

MEET THE FRIENDS

TAKE THE BUS TO HOME

ARRIVE TO THE HOUSE

GO TO BED
a) What time do you usually wake up?

____________________________________________________

b) What time do you wake up when you are on vacation?

____________________________________________________

c) When on vacation do you usually check the newspapers?

____________________________________________________

d) Do you take the bus to go to work?

____________________________________________________

e) What time do you have lunch at work?

____________________________________________________

f) How long is your lunch time?

____________________________________________________