Telling the time in English
| to | It’s … o’clock. | past |
| It’s five to …
It’s ten to … It’s a quarter to … It’s twenty to … It’s twenty-five to … |
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It’s five past …
It’s ten past … It’s a quarter past … It’s twenty past … It’s twenty-five past … |
| It’s half past … |
Exercises
Practise telling the time
- exercise 1: fill in the correct words
- exercise 2: fill in the correct time
- exercise 3: fill in the correct time
- exercise 4: match time in numbers with the time in words
- exercise 5: match time in words with time in numbers
- exercise 6: various exercise practising telling the time in English
- exercise 7: Bang on Time: a game to teach you tell the time (you need Adobe Flashplayer)
Useful page
- exercises for practising cardinal numbers, ordinal numbers and the date in English