How to Tell Time In English
During this lesson you will learn to tell the time in English.
The image below is split into 2 colours, green and yellow. The green side ‘to’ and the yellow side is ‘past’.
Use the list below to learn
Yellow is past the hour
Green is to the hour
1 |
five past |
2 |
ten past |
3 |
quarter past |
4 |
twenty past |
5 |
twenty five past |
6 |
half past |
7 |
twenty five to |
8 |
twenty to |
9 |
quarter to |
10 |
ten to |
11 |
five to |
12Â Â |
,o, clock |
Below are 12 clocks with random times
The text is above each clock !
The first clock=7.00Â Â Â |
The second clock=12.00 |
The third clock=3.10 |
Seven ,0, clock  |
Twelve ,0, clock |
Three ten |
Its seven ,0, clock  |
It is Twelve ,0, clock |
It is ten past three |
Green hand is = ,0, clock   |
Green hand is = ,0, clock    |
Green hand is = ten past |
The red hand = 7 |
The red hand = 12 |
The Red hand = 3 |
| The first clock=4.50Â Â Â | The second clock=10.45 | The third clock=8.35 |
| Its four fifty  | Its ten forty-five | Its eight thirty-five |
| Its ten to five | It is quarter to eleven | It twenty-five to nine |
| Green hand is = ten to   | Green hand is = quarter to   | Green hand is = twenty five to  |
| The red hand = 5 | The red hand = 11 | The Red hand = 9 |
| The first clock = 7.14 Â Â | The second clock = 9.15 | The third clock = 1.20 |
| Its seven fourteen | Its nine fifteen | its one twenty |
| Its fourteen minutes past seven  | It is quarter past nine | It is twenty past onee |
| Green hand is = fourteen minutes past   | Green hand is = quarter past   | Green hand is = twenty past   |
| The red hand = 7 | The red hand = 9 | The Red hand = 1 |
| The first clock = 11.05 Â Â | The second clock = 2.14 | The third clock = 6.30 |
| Its eleven oh five   | Its two fourteen | Its six thirty |
| Its five past eleven  | Its fourteen minutes past two    | It is half past six |
| Green hand is = five past  | Green hand is = fourteen minutes past   | Green hand is =  half past |
| The red hand = 11 | The red hand = 2 | The Red hand = half past    |
Types of ways of saying the time
A.M. = morning It’s 6:00 A.M.
P.M. = afternoon
Evening / night It’s 6:00 P.M.
It’s six o’clock = 6:00 A.M.
It’s six = 6:00 A.M.
It’s six-oh-five = 6:05 A.M.
It’s six (minutes) after five = 6:05 A.M.
It’s six (minutes) past five = 6:05 A.M.
It’s six-oh-six = 6:06 A.M.
It’s six (minutes) after six = 6:06 A.M.
It’s six (minutes) past six = 6:06 A.M.
It’s six-oh-ten = 6:10 A.M.
Its ten past six A.M.
It’s ten (minutes) after six = 6:10 A.M.
It’s ten (minutes) past six = 6:10 A.M.
A.M. = morning It’s 6:00 A.M.
P.M. = afternoon
Evening / night It’s 6:00 P.M.
It’s six-fifteen = 6:15 P.M.
Its quarter past six P.M.
It’s fifteen (minutes) after six = 6:15 P.M.
It’s fifteen (minutes) past six = 6:15 P.M.
It’s six–twenty = 6:20 P.M.
It’s a twenty after six = 6:20 P.M.
It’s a twenty past six = 6:20 P.M.
It’s six-thirty = 6:30 P.M.
It’s half past six = 6:30 P.M.
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It’s six-forty = 6:40 P.M.
It’s a twenty to six = 6:40 P.M.
It’s a twenty of six = 6:40 P.M.
It’s six fifty-five = 6:50 P.M.
It’s five (minutes) to seven = 6:50 P.M.
It’s five (minutes) of seven = 6:50 P.M.
It’s six-fifty-nine = 6:59 P.M.
It’s one (minutes) to seven = 6:59 P.M.
It’s one (minutes) to seven = 6:59 P.M.
