Learn How to Tell the Time in English
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Multi-Choice Questions
Match the word to the picture.
This is the simplest test on the page. It is designed to familiarize learners with the words and the images.
- There are two types of question. Players must either:
- match the picture to the word, or
- match the word to the picture.
- You can toggle the sound on and off.
- Good luck!
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Match-the-Pairs Game
Draw three lines from the pictures on the left to the correct words on the right.
- Your mission is to match each picture with the correct word in as few a clicks as possible.
- There are three pictures in each set, and there are sets to complete.
- Click on your first square to start then click on the corresponding square on the other side. Good luck!
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Memory Game
This is a classic memory game. Turn two cards at a time and try to match each picture with the right word.
- Your mission is to pair pictures with their correct titles in as few a clicks as possible.
- Click on a card to turn it. Next, try to find its partner by clicking on a second card. (If you fail to find a match with your second click, both cards will turn again.)
- This is a memory game as well as a vocabulary-learning game.
- Click on your first card to start. Good luck!
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Basic Flash Cards
This is not a game. These are classic flashcards to help learners study the words at their own pace.
- Say the word shown by the picture, then click on a card to turn it.
- If you were right, move on to the next word.
- If you were wrong, click on the card again to hide the word and move on to the next word.
- Keep going through the cards until you can get them all right.
- You can toggle the sound on and off.
Spell-the-Word Game
Spell the word represented by the picture.
- The letters below the picture are the jumbled letters of the correct word represented by the picture.
- Spell the correct word by clicking on the letters in order.
- You can toggle the sound on and off.
Learn with Hangman!
Hangman is a classic word game. In this version, the hidden word is one of the words from the "time" category. Choose your first letter to start.
- Guess the hidden word by choosing one letter at a time.
- If you guess a letter in the hidden word, then all is good.
- If you guess a letter that is not in the hidden word, then the hangman starts to build the gallows.
- If the gallows are completed, you lose.
- Good luck!
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"Missing Word" Flash Cards
This is not a game. These are classic flashcards to help learners study the words (with some context) at their own pace.
- Read the sentence aloud, filling the gap with the word shown by the picture.
- Click on the card to reveal the whole sentence.
- If you were right, move on to the next card.
- If you were wrong, click on the same card again to hide the complete sentence and move on to the next card.
- Keep going through the cards until you can get them all right.
- You can toggle the sound on and off.
Word Detective
Can you work out which word has been covered up?
- The image and title have been blurred out to hide a word that fits in all three sentences. Your job is to identify the hidden word.
- When you have worked it out, select the button with the correct word.
- Tip 1. During the game, keep an eye on the images below to work out which words are remaining. (No words are repeated.)
- Tip 2. Click on an underlined word in a sentence to see the meaning of that word.
- Good luck!
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time
- What time do you wake up in the morning?
- I didn’t have time to eat breakfast yesterday.
- My teacher gave us more time to finish the physics homework.
midnight
- The Christmas party ended at midnight.
- Midnight is too late for my grandmother.
- I usually go to sleep before midnight.
midday
- My class finishes at midday on Friday.
- Harry is meeting me in the park at midday.
- He always calls me at midday.
half past
- I arrived at the office at half past three.
- My mother went to the hospital at half past five.
- English class starts at half past nine in the morning.
quarter past
- Let's meet at the theatre at quarter past four.
- I wake up at quarter past seven every day.
- The bus arrives at quarter past five.
quarter to
- The train leaves at quarter to six.
- At school, the children eat lunch at quarter to twelve.
- I usually leave the office at quarter to five.
morning
- I wake up at seven in the morning.
- My grandmother likes to have tea in the morning.
- We usually have eggs for breakfast in the morning.
afternoon
- My mother sleeps in the afternoon after lunch.
- It’s too hot to go outside in the afternoon.
- This afternoon, I went for a walk.
evening
- We like to paint in the evening.
- We visited my grandmother yesterday evening.
- Do you prefer to exercise in the evening or the morning?
night
- I didn’t sleep well last night.
- She always wakes up in the middle of the night.
- The nurse is working at night this week.
o'clock
- I always have lunch at twelve o’clock.
- My grandmother wakes up at eight o’clock every day.
- Do you know what time it is? It’s three o’clock.
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This page was written by Craig Shrives.
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