This document provides information about telling time, including questions to ask someone to learn the time, parts of an analog clock face like hours and minutes, and terms like o'clock, quarter past/after, and half past to specify times. It also notes that there are 24 hours in a day and time goes around the clock continuously.

1. ” What time is it?
” Excuse me. Can you tell me what time it is please?
” Do you know what time it is?
” Can you tell me the time please?
” Excuse me. Do you have the time?
The Hour
minutes before minutes after
1- 2- 3- 4
before after
5- 6- 7- 8
to minutes past
9- 10- 11- 12
exactly past
Midnight = 12:00 precisely on
the dot quarter after
Noon = 12:00
quarter past
It’s o’clock.
half past
” Could you tell me what time it is?
” Excuse me. Do you happen to know what time it is?
” Do you have the time?
” Would you happen to know what time it is?
” You wouldn’t happen to know what time it is,
would you?
24 hours
around the clock