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Welcome to Class 🎉

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This time is for you!

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Set your goal right now on how you want to spend the next 50 minutes.

Remember you’re here to practice communication (both speaking and listening) with your peers.

Camera on ✅ is encouraged :)

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Tick-Tock: Mastering the Art of Telling Time in English

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What to expect…

[15 minutes] We will learn about telling time in English together.

[20 minutes] In pairs or small groups, you will practice these new expressions through discussions (speaking practice!).

[15 minutes] Your Immigo Coach & AI will give you personalized feedback & review the things we can improve on!

You will be able to tell time in English correctly in many different ways! 🎉🎉🎉

In the next 50 minutes:

LEARN

PRACTICE

FEEDBACK

🎉 AFTER CLASS

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Use/function

Telling time is essential for our daily life.

It helps us to schedule events, make appointments and be in the correct place at pre-designated times.

There are many rules for telling time in English. This lesson will focus on reading a manual clock in a standardized way. Next week’s lesson will focus on special rules and exceptions for telling time.

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Reading a manual clock:

The clock is divided into 12 hours, each hour has 5-minute intervals.

The short hand shows the hour, the long hand shows the minutes.

So, by looking at the position of the two hands we can determine the hour and minute.

Hours (1 to 12)

Minutes (0 to 59)

The hours on a clock are read with the word o’clock after the hour if it is the hour exactly (0 minutes).

Examples:

1:00 - One o’clock

2:00 - Two o’clock

3:00 - Three o’clock

Times in the morning (before 12 PM, noon/midday) can be referred to as AM.

Times in the afternoon (12 PM- 12 AM) can be referred to as PM.

You can use o’clock or AM/PM but not together!�1 AM (correct). 1 o’clock AM (incorrect)

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More rules about telling time:

There are two acceptable ways to express a combination of hours and minutes when reading a clock:

  1. Hour + minutes (read as two numbers)

Examples:

4:56 (four, fifty-six)

10:22 (ten, twenty-two)

7:33 (seven, thirty three)

  • Minutes+ TO/PAST
  • For minutes 1- 30, it is possible to use the form: Minutes + PAST + previous hour

Examples:

11:12 (twelve past eleven)

2:27 (twenty seven past two)

4:08 (eight past four)

  1. For minutes greater than 30, it is possible to use the form: Minutes+ TO + next hour

Examples:

5:50 (ten to six)

7:43 (seventeen to eight)

9:33 (twenty seven to ten)

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Practice time 1:

Read the manual clock and give the correct time! Pay attention to the small and large hands of the clock.

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Dynamic practice 1:Tick-tock time clock!

Read the manual clock and give the correct time! Pay attention to the small and large hands of the clock. Give the exact time (to the minute).

You have 10 minutes! Finish early? There are more clocks to practice with in dynamic practice 2!

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Dynamic practice 2:Tick-tock time clock 2!

Read the manual clock and give the correct time! Pay attention to the small and large hands of the clock. Give the exact time (to the minute).

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Grammar fluency practice #1

Help us out and screen share the discussion questions in your break out room if you can! :)

*Important: Try to use the grammar learned from today’s lesson when you are answering the question. Focus on your accuracy. You can do this!

  1. Do you think you have enough time in the day to do everything you want? Why or why not?
  2. Have you ever been late to an important event? What happened and what was the final result?
  3. How many times a day do you check the time? Why do you check the time so much (or so little)?
  4. Do you think time travel is possible? Where would you go if you could time travel?
  5. What are some situations where it feels like time moves very slowly? What about quickly?

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Person who checked the time the most recently goes first!

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Discussion #1 Live paraphrasing

For finish (to finish, to + verb)

Why we can express (how we can express, clearer word choice)

On that 20% of times I am (during, better word choice)

Move through (the) time (remove “THE”, no article needed)

The time move slow (moves slowly, subject verb agreement, adverb form)

How enjoyable is the task (how enjoyable the task is, word order)

The time go (goes, subject verb agreement)

Without making (without doing anything, verb choice)

LIVE PARAPHRASING

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Grammar fluency practice #2

Help us out and screen share the discussion questions in your break out room if you can! :)

*Important: Try to use the grammar learned from today’s lesson when you are answering the question. Focus on your accuracy. You can do this!

  1. What do you consider has been the best time of your life? Why?
  2. Are you a patient person? What things do you hate waiting for?
  3. How many time zones does your country have? Does the time in your country ever change (Daylight savings time for example)?
  4. Do you use an alarm clock? What time is it normally set for? How often do you hit the snooze button and go back to bed?
  5. If your friend were having a party at 8 PM, what time would you arrive?

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Person who hit snooze on their alarm clock the most recently goes first!

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Discussion #2 Live paraphrasing

LIVE PARAPHRASING

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Fantastic job today everyone!

Our time together is at an end today! Did the class go quickly or slowly for you?

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Class Awards!

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Group Selfie!!

Smile everybody!

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