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Unit 2 · Section 6

🕐 Telling the time

📘 What time is it ?

📌 Règle💬 Exemple
Heures pile : 9.00 → nine o'clock
nine o'clock
Minutes après l'heure (1 à 29) : on utilise past
ten past three
Minutes avant l'heure suivante (31 à 59) : on utilise to
ten to four
Cas particuliers :
x.15 → a quarter past x
x.30 → half past x
x.45 → a quarter to (x+1)
a quarter past eight
half past eight
a quarter to nine

📘 At / On / In — les prépositions de temps

📌 Règle💬 Exemples
AT

pour une heure précise, ou certaines expressions figées
at 9 o'clock · at noon · at midnight · at night · at break time · at Christmas · at the weekend (UK)
ON

pour un jour ou une date précise
on Monday · on Saturdays · on 25 December · on my birthday · on Christmas Day
IN

pour une période plus longue (moment de la journée, mois, saison, année)
in the morning · in the afternoon · in the evening · in July · in summer · in 2026
⚠️ Exception at night — pas "in the night" pour parler d'une habitude

✏️ A. Complete with AT, ON or IN

1. I go to school the morning.
2. My birthday is July.
3. We don't have school Saturdays.
4. I go to bed ten o'clock.
5. My French lesson is Monday.
6. It's very quiet night.
7. We open our presents Christmas Day.
8. I do my homework the evening.

✏️ B. Write the hours in full letters

1. I go to bed at (9.00)
2. My dance lesson is at (16.30)
3. I go to school at (8.15)
4. I have lunch at (11.55)
5. My maths lesson is at (15.10)
6. I go to the cinema at (19.35)
7. I see my friends at (17.30)
8. I go to the supermarket at (10.07)
9. In the weekend, I go to bed at (22.00)
10. It's (00.00) and we usually sleep at (00.30)

✏️ C. Write the hours digitally

1. It's a quarter past five.
2. It's twenty to nine.
3. It's half past two.
4. It's nine past eight.
5. It's ten to eleven.
6. It's six past seven.
7. It's seven to nine.
8. It's a quarter to four.
9. It's twenty-three past ten.
10. It's twenty to eleven.

✏️ D. Place these moments in chronological order (1 to 8)

Écris le numéro d'ordre (1 = le plus tôt le matin, 8 = le plus tard le soir).

— I wake up at seven o'clock AM every day.
— It's half past seven AM! You always spend so much time in the shower.
— Breakfast is usually around a quarter to eight AM.
— Dad, it's five to eight AM on my watch!
— Sandy, it's five past eight AM. We are late!
— Twelve o'clock. It's lunch time.
— A quarter past four PM. Time to go home.
— It's half past nine PM, time to sleep, Sandy.
Listening

🎧 Listen to the dialogue and complete the school schedule

Tom is a new student. Complète son emploi du temps du matin d'après le dialogue.

🕐 Time📚 Class🚪 Room🏫 Building
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