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    Telling The Time: Business English Success Esforay GMBH

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    The document discusses how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. It explains that the big hand is for minutes and cycles every 60 minutes, while the little hand is for hours and cycles every 12 hours. It provides examples of telling time for whole hours, half hours, quarter hours, and minutes before or after the hour. The document demonstrates how to read both analog clocks and digital time displays.

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    Telling The Time: Business English Success Esforay GMBH

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    The document discusses how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. It explains that the big hand is for minutes and cycles every 60 minutes, while the little hand is for hours and cycles every 12 hours. It provides examples of telling time for whole hours, half hours, quarter hours, and minutes before or after the hour. The document demonstrates how to read both analog clocks and digital time displays.

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    The document discusses how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. It explains that the big hand is for minutes and cycles every 60 minutes, while the little hand is for hours and cycles every 12 hours. It provides examples of telling time for whole hours, half hours, quarter hours, and minutes before or after the hour. The document demonstrates how to read both analog clocks and digital time displays.

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    Telling The Time: Business English Success Esforay GMBH

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    Nadri Kultura
    The document discusses how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks. It explains that the big hand is for minutes and cycles every 60 minutes, while the little hand is for hours and cycles every 12 hours. It provides examples of telling time for whole hours, half hours, quarter hours, and minutes before or after the hour. The document demonstrates how to read both analog clocks and digital time displays.

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    Telling the Time

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    The Clock Hands
    The big hand

    The little hand

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    The Big Hand
    For the minutes
    One cycle is 60 minutes
    60 minutes in one hour

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    The Little Hand
    For the hours
    One cycle is 12 hours
    24 hours in one day

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    Whole hours
    The big hand is on the 12
    The little hand shows the hour
    We say it is N o’clock
    Here, it is 3 o’clock

    For digital displays,


    03:00 or 15:00

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    Half hours
    The big hand is on the 6
    The little hand is between 2 hours
    We say it is half past N
    Here, it is half past 1

    For digital displays,


    01:30 or 13:30

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    Quarter hours - after
    The big hand is on the 3
    The little hand is between 2 hours
    We say it is quarter past N
    Here, it is quarter past 8

    For digital displays,


    08:15 or 20:15

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    Quarter hours - before
    The big hand is on the 9
    The little hand is between 2 hours
    We say it is quarter to N
    Here, it is quarter to 5

    For digital displays,


    04:45 or 16:45

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    Minutes - after
    The big hand is between 12 and 6
    The little hand is between 2 hours
    We say it is X minutes past N
    Here, it is 5 minutes past 7

    For digital displays,


    07:05 or 19:05

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    Minutes - after
    Another example
    Here, it is 20 minutes past 10
    Or, 20 past 10

    For digital displays,


    10:20 or 22:20

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    Minutes - before
    The big hand is between 6 and 12
    The little hand is between 2 hours
    We say it is X minutes to N
    Here, it is 5 minutes to 9

    For digital displays,


    08:55 or 20:55

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH


    Minutes - before
    Another example
    Here, it is 25 minutes to 12
    Or, 25 to 12

    For digital displays,


    11:35 or 23:35

    Business English Success ESFORAY GmbH

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