WHAT TIME IS IT?

OBJECTIVE

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify and use the hour in short sentences

WARM UP

GRAMMAR

When it's before the hour (after 30 minutes past) we say "to".

There are 60 minutes in an hour.

30 minutes is half an hour, we say "half past" or "thirty".

15 minutes is quarter of an hour, we say "quarter past" or "fifteen" or "quarter to" or "forty-five".

O’Clock, ‘Past’ and ‘To’

• The phrase ‘o’clock’ is a shortening of the phrase ‘of the clock’. This is to differentiate it from when we used to tell time by the position of the sun and stars. We always pronounce ‘o’ in this phrase as ‘oh’. In English, we sometimes call zero ‘0’, pronounced ‘oh’, which is faster and easier than saying ‘zero’.

• five past three (3.05) – or three-oh-five

• ten past three (3.10) – or three-ten

• Quarter past three (3.15)  – or three-fifteen (sometimes people say ‘fifteen minutes past’, but never just ‘fifteen past’)

• Twenty past three (3.20) – or three twenty

• Twenty-five past three (3.25) – or three twenty-five

• Half past three (3.30) – or three thirty

Taken from
https://www.myenglishlanguage.com/essential-vocabulary/telling-time-english/
 https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/uhr.htm
For hourly times use the phrase ‘o’clock’. For example: It is three o’clock (pronounced: ‘three oh clock’)
For any minute past the hour but before the half hour, use the word ‘past’ before the previous o’clock, or read out the full numbers.
Examples using ‘past’:

WRITING

Create short sentences to describe your own schedule

My school´s name is _______________________

I am in ____________ grade

My first class of Monday is at ________________

My science class is on _______________________ at ___________________

My favorite class is _______________________. It is on ________________  at ___________

Answer the questions

When is your English class?    _______________________________________

What time is your physical education class?  ____________________________

What is your second class on Tuesday? ________________________________

What time is now?  ________________________________________________

Write in English the following hours

7: 00 _______________________________________________________________

2: 45 _______________________________________________________________

12: 00 ______________________________________________________________

6: 15 ________________________________________________________________

8: 30 ________________________________________________________________

9: 50 ________________________________________________________________

1: 10 ________________________________________________________________

3: 40 ________________________________________________________________

00: _________________________________________________________________ 

4: 55 ________________________________________________________________

LISTENING

Visit this web page, listen the audio, and select the correct answer

http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/clocks-watches-1.htm

Our class begins at __________________________________.
A. 4:05
B. 4:15
C. 4:50
2. My mother left this morning at __________________________.
A. 9:03
B. 9:13
C. 9:30
3. I'm going to catch my bus at ____________________________.
A. 3:40
B. 4:20
C. 12:04
4. Let's get together at ___________________________________.
4. Let's get together at ___________________________________.
A. 12:05
B. 5:12
C. 5:22
5. The store ____________________________________________.
A. 4:06
B. 5:45
C. 6:15
6. The ____________ starts at _____________________________.
A. 7:04
B. 7:14
C. 7:40
7. _____________________________________________________.
A. 10:00
B. 10:05
C. 10:10
8. _____________________________________________________.
A. 11:05
B. 4:12
C. 11:45
9. _____________________________________________________.
A. 8:05
B. 8:15
C. 8:25
10. _____________________________________________________.
A. 3:03
B. 3:13
C. 3:30

READING