Understanding Time and Clocks

This video tutorial teaches how to tell time in English. It covers the use of clocks, watches, and alarm clocks, explaining the roles of the hour and minute hands. The video details how to express time using 'past' and 'to', and provides practice questions for reinforcement. It also clarifies the terms 'midnight' and 'noon', and introduces useful phrases for different times of the day, such as morning, afternoon, evening, and night.

What are some tools you can use to tell the time?

• A thermometer

• A calendar

• A clock

• A sundial

Which hand on the clock tells the hour?

• The digital display

• The big hand

• The little hand

• The second hand

What does it mean when the big hand is on 3?

• It's on the hour

• It's a quarter past

• It's a quarter to

• It's half past

If the time is 10:05, how would you say it using 'past'?

• Five to ten

• Five past ten

• Ten past five

• Quarter past ten

How would you say 7:15 using 'quarter'?

• Quarter to seven

• Seven o'clock

• Quarter past seven

• Half past seven

If the little hand is between 12 and 6, which term do we use?

• Past

• To

• Quarter

• Half

What time is it if it's a quarter to one?

• 12:15

• 12:45

• 1:15

• 1:45

Which of the following is a correct way to express 4:20?

• Twenty to four

• Twenty past four

• Four to twenty

• Four past twenty

What is the term for 5:55?

• Five to six

• Five past six

• Five to five

• Five past five

What is another way to say 12:00 a.m.?

• Evening

• Morning

• Noon

• Midnight