Name: _____________________________________________________

PROCESO DIRECCIÓN DE FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL INTEGRAL

WORKSHEET

TELLING THE TIME

El uso de la hora es imprescindible para comunicar las ideas, veamos las diferentes maneras de decir la
hora en inglés.

What time is it?

It is…

Short form:

O’clock: en punto. Example: 09:00 a.m. (nine o’clock a.m.)

Para indicar las horas y los minutos empleamos el mismo formato del español y leemos en el mismo orden
en el que se escribe la hora:

Examples:


06:22 p.m.
(six:
twenty-
two p.m.)
in the
afternoon

11:47 a.m.
(eleven:
forty-
seven
a.m.) in
the
morning

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“Past” (los minutos que van transcurridos + PAST + la hora en la que estamos).

3:22 a.m. (twenty-two PAST three a.m.)

10: 17 p.m. (seventeen PAST ten at night)

“A quarter past” (A QUARTER PAST + la hora en la que estamos)

9:15 a.m. (A QUARTER PAST nine a.m.)

“Half past” (HALF PAST + la hora en la que estamos)

6:30 p.m. (HALF PAST six p.m.)

“TO” (los minutos que faltan + TO + la hora que sigue).

8:58 a.m. (two TO nine a.m.)

5:37 p.m. (twenty-three TO six p.m.)

“A quarter to” (A QUARTER TO + la hora que sigue)

9:45 a.m. (A QUARTER TO ten a.m.)

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 TIME EXPRESSIONS

AT a las… (At night, at noon).

IN in the morning, in the afternoon, in (months) in (years).

ON on (days of the week) on Mondays, on Saturdays, on (dates: month/day/year).

EVERY Todos (as) (every day, every morning, every May…).

EACH Cada (each Monday, each afternoon, each January).

SOMETIMES Algunas veces

FIRST primero

THEN luego, entonces

EARLY temprano

LATE tarde

UNTIL Hasta… un día / un mes (hasta las…).

FROM… desde las (hora)… hasta las (hora)…

TO… desde (día o mes)… hasta (día o mes)
BEFORE antes

AFTER después

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
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 A. Read the following text carefully:

B. The following sentences about the text are all false. Please correct them:

1- Pamela wakes up at 7.00 a.m.

__ Pamela gets up at 7.00 a.m._______________________________________________
2- She takes her car to work.
______________________________________________________________________________
3- Her work is very monotonous.
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4- Her best quality is her ability to understand people.
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C. Answer these questions about the text:

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 1- Why does Pamela need to wake up at 7.00 when she starts work at 9.00?
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2- Does she have lunch alone?
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D. Write a text about Pamela, the girl from the text:

NAME: PAMELA BURNS / AGE: 26 / DATE OF BIRTH: 10TH June 1975

ORIGIN: ENGLAND / LIVES IN: OPORTO
JOB: PERSONNEL MANAGER
FAMILY: FATHER / MOTHER / TWO BROTHERS / FATHER: ENGLISH – ENGINEER / MOTHER: GERMAN –
TEACHER
FREE TIME ACTIVITIES: MUSIC, FOOTBALL, INTERNET
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________.

FINAL ACTIVITIES

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 1. Draw the hands on the clocks and write 8 more examples using the long format:

8 examples:
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2. Design a PowerPoint presentation (at least 10 slides) writing sentences with each “hour” to
describe your daily routine. (Use sentences like these and images).

Example sentences:

 I get up at six o’clock on weekdays.

 I have breakfast at 8:15 a.m. from Monday to Friday.

 I have lunch at 11:30 a.m. on Mondays.

 I have a little snack around 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon.

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  I have lunch at 1:00 p.m. on weekends.

Deadline: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 at 06:00 p.m.

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