Telling the Time There are two common ways of telling the time.
1) Say the hour first and then the minutes. (Hour + Minutes) -
6:25 - six twenty-five - 8:05 - eight O-five - 9:11 - nine
eleven - 2:34 - two thirty-four 2) Say the minutes first and
then the hour. (Minutes + PAST / TO + Hour) For minutes 1-30 we
use PAST after the minutes. For minutes 31-59 we use TO after
the minutes. - 2:35 - twenty-five to three - 11:20 - twenty past
eleven - 4:18 - eighteen past four - 8:51 - nine to nine - 2:59
- one to three When it is 15 minutes past the hour we normally
say: a quarter past - 7:15 - a quarter past seven When it is 15
minutes before the hour we normally say: a quarter to - 12:45 -
a quarter to one When it is 30 minutes past the hour we normally
say: half past - 3:30 - half past three (but we can also say
three-thirty) We use o'clock when there are NO minutes. - 10:00
- ten o'clock - 5:00 - five o'clock - 1:00 - one o'clock
Sometimes it is written as 9 o'clock (the number + o'clock) For
12:00 there are four