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Telling The Time: Business English Success Esforay GMBH

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 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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Nadri Kultura
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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

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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

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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

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

For digital displays,


10:20 or 22:20

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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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