[Nermeen]

Telling the time to the half hour or quarter hour

There are 15 minutes in quarter of an hour.
There are 30 minutes in half an hour.
There are 45 minutes in three quarters of an hour.
When it's past the hour (up to 30 minutes past) we say "past".
When it's before the hour (after 30 minutes past) we say "to".
30 minutes is half an hour, we say "half past" or "thirty".
15 minutes is quarter of an hour.
At 15 minutes past the hour we say "quarter past" or "fifteen".
At fifteen minutes to the hour we say "quarter to" or "forty-five".






Examples:








Twelve o'clock
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Twelve fifteen or Quarter past twelve
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Twelve thirty or half past twelve
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Twelve forty-five or Quarter to twelve
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How to ask about the time and to answer:

Exactly or about :



Exactly = تماما


02:00
Exactly two o'clock


About = تقريبا


02:28
About two thirty

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Exercises:

The question will be:

Excuse me, what time is it please?

or

Excuse me, what is the time now?

It's exactly eight o'clock
or
It's eight
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It's about half past eleven
or
It's about eleven thirty
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It's half past twelve
or
It's twelve thirty



There are 24 hours in a day, but only the military, police and computer programmers use the 24-hour clock. When writing or speaking generally we tend to use the 12-hour clock. The 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods called a.m. (Latin "ante meridian" | English: "before mid day") and p.m. (Latin "post meridian" | English: "after mid day").
The way people write the time varies. I prefer a.m. and p.m




Some people (myself included) use a dot as the separator: 2.30 pm.
Some people use a colon as the separator: 2:30 pm.
The colon is usually used with the 24-hour clock: 14:30.

نهاية الدرس الثامن بفضل الله ولو فيه اي سؤال
ان شاء الله انا مستعدة
جزاكم الله خيرا

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