hello and welcome back to learn English
with B Global my name is Kristen here at
learn English and I am looking forward
to teaching you today about time so
we're going to talk about the different
ways to say time both with days and with
the time of the day using the clock and
I want to make sure to go over how to
talk about it both now in the past
and in the future so to start off let's
look at our
clock so this here is our clock this
will tell us what time of the day it is
so if someone were to come up to you and
say excuse me what time is
it what time is it you would be able to
tell them what time it is according to
this clock here we have the short hand
at the 12 and the long hand at the
nine that means that it is
1245 now we talk about in the United
States we use our 12-hour clock system
so we have 12 hours for
a.m. and we have 12 hours for
pm and this
is
anti-
meridian and
post
meridian so if we're talking about am we
are talking about those hours between 12
a.m. and
11:59 a.m.
a.m. once it gets to be 12: p.m. or
noon then we go into p.m. so it's 11:59
a.m. 12:00 p.m. and then that goes all
the way up until
11:59 p.m. at night so hopefully that
helps kind of explain that for those of
you that are using the 24hour system you
have larger numbers so once you hit your
12:00
p.m. where here we would say 100 p.m.
you then are going on to
13 1300
hours and then 2:00 is
14 let me just go all the way around
here so then you're basing your clock
off of a 24-hour day and using all 24
hours here in the United States we use a
and p.m. unless you are in the military
and the military uses the 24-hour model
as well but today I'm going to talk
mostly about using a.m and p.m. so let's
say that it is
12:45 and it's 12:45
p.m. that means it's after noon that's
where we get afternoon from so for 12:45
p.m. if someone were to ask me what time
is it I could say it's
12:45 I could also say it's A4 to
1 because 45 is only 15 minutes or one
quarter of this whole circle until it
gets to the top of the hour which is
right where the hour
stands now if we're talking about past
we could say it was
12:45 instead of it is
12:45 some people may even say it is
almost
1:00 we use oock when we're talking
about the exact hour on the
hour so it can be 1:00
and when you're using o' you do not use
am or p.m if someone says what time is
it right now you can say it's 1:00 they
will know because they are asking you
what time it is and that if you are face
to face it's already inferred whether or
not that is p.m. or a.m. if you were on
the phone with somebody and they were in
another time zone or they were in
another area of the world where maybe
they wouldn't didn't know whether it was
you know in the afternoon if it was the
am or the p.m. or where it stands then
what you can say is
1:00 in
the
afternoon so you can say it's 1:00 in
the afternoon or it's 7:00 in the
evening
or it's 9:00 in the
morning when we're using the hour on the
hour and we use the phrase o'l you want
to make sure that you then specify
whether it's morning afternoon or
evening or nighttime but you do not use
am or p.m when you're using
oock okay so what I'd like to do now is
look at yeah so what we're talking about
is right now that's the present time so
we have today it is now 4:00 it is now
300 p.m. it is
3:15 or A4 after 3: it is 3:30 p.m. or
half past 3 so we have quarters that we
use
you and we also can use half
it's half past or quarter
till okay so that gives you a small
little lesson on different ways that you
can say it but you can always just say
what it is it is
12:45 it is
345 it is
4:45 and if you're not sure about the am
or p.m. if somebody wants to know they
will ask you they'll say is that a. or P
p.m. and then you can tell them you can
remember that the the a comes first in
the alphabet and am is morning P comes
later in the alphabet PM is afternoon
evening and night time so we have the
present it is now today okay and then
for the past that's when we want to
discuss you know it was 3:00 yesterday
in the afternoon it was and you that's
when you'll use was for the time for
future you would like to say it is going
to be or it will be at
4:00 it will be at
3:45 it will be at
8:15 okay so that's a quick little
lesson on time now before we get into
more of the past present and future I
want to talk about the days of the week
so we have seven days in our week and
those seven days make up one
week so you may hear what day is it
sometimes people forget they get so busy
and they're not sure what day it
is please be in mind because they can
sound similar what day is it is talking
about the day of the week if someone
asks what's the
date
they are talking about the day of the
month on the calendar that is the date
these are the days of the week so we
start with Sunday and then we go to
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
and Saturday so Sunday and
Saturday
those are our
weekend those two days are our weekend
it's the end of the week so when we're
talking about days and someone says what
day is it if you're talking about today
you would say it is
Monday if you're talking about tomorrow
that's the next day so let's talk about
just today today it is
Monday now today is Monday it is Monday
that's talking about here and right now
and then we go into the past so you can
use the word last last week last month I
took a test in school last year I went
shopping every
Sunday so you you can use weeks months
and years and use the term last you
would not say last day if you are
referring to the day that came before
today that word is
yesterday so you can say yesterday at
12:45 p.m. I went to lunch with a
friend
today at
3:00 I will be meeting my
boss will be means it's in the
future so yesterday was in the
past today is now will be is in the
future you can say in 2 days from
now I will go to the mall so if today is
Monday 2 days from now would be
Wednesday in two 2 days from
now I will be going to the mall if
you're talking about 2 days
ago I was
sick okay so I hope that gives you some
examples of how to discuss time the best
thing that I can tell you is to watch
and sit if you have time to go to like a
coffee shop and maybe sit with friends
and listen to them talk
especially after a weekend everyone
always wants to discuss what they did on
the weekend so they may say what did you
do this
weekend on Saturday I went out to dinner
with my
family and then on Sunday I went to
church with my
husband and then they may say what did
you do last
weekend last weekend is in the past so
that should be your key word
there last weekend I went out of town on
vacation and next weekend I will be
working so when you use next that's in
the
future and that can be week it can be
months it can be years um you want to
say next week next month next
year okay so I just wanted to be able to
give you some examples on how to do the
past and the present I know that it's a
lot of information I encourage you to go
back and watch this video again and
really pay attention to the times to the
days and practice using the past tense
and the future tense and the present to
help remember what those key words are
so that you know what they are when you
go to speak with a
friend I hope you enjoyed today's lesson
I as always enjoyed teaching you I do
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