BASIC SPEAKING

DAY 6
Fitri Yuliani
Liones English Course
collaboration with BigBen Course
Telling the Time
There are two styles in telling time;
1. American style
2. British style
Time of the Day
a.m. p.m.
Ante Meridiem Post Meridiem
(before midday in Latin) (after midday in Latin)
Midnight to midday Midday to midnight

AM (00.00 – 11.59)
PM (12.00 – 23.59)
American English (AE) Style
• AE use “after, oh and ‘til=until” in expressing times
• AE use a colon to separate “hour” and “minute”

02:15 am 10:40 pm
It’s two fifteen am It’s ten forty pm
It’s two oh fifteen am It’s twenty ‘til eleven pm
It’s fifteen after two am
British English (BE) Style
BE use “past, and to” in expressing

BE use a dot to separate “hour” and “minute”


Past To

09.30 am 10.56 pm

It’s half past nine am It’s four to eleven pm

British Rules
Past
 Menit 1 - 30
Quarter – past
 Menit 15
Half –past
 Menit 30

To
 Menit 31 – 59

Quarter – to
 Menit 45
Telling the Time
Time to Speak
 Tell your schedule to your partner
Thank You
“As soon as you trust yourself
You will know how to live”.

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