Telling Time 1-11

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo g, mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1,2

Goodmorning!

Today

• Reading strategies
• Telling Time
• Days & Dates
• Vocabulary 2.1  

Goals

At the end of this class you:

• have worked on your reading skills
• know how to tell time
• know how to correctly write days & dates
• expanded your vocabulary

Last class: Reading

Who remembers the steps?

• Stap 1:
• Stap 2:
• Stap 3:
• Stap 4:

Your Turn

Get your books

Coursebook page 20 & 21

Workbook page 48

Do: exercise 2,3,4,5 & 6

Telling

Time

O'CLOCK

Het hele uur = o'clock

om 3 uur = at 3 o'clock

1. one o'clock
2. one hour
3. twelve o'clock
4. first o'clock

what's the time

what's the time

1. twelve o'clock
2. eleven o'clock
3. elevenst o' clock
4. eleven hour

What's the time?

1. ten to ten
2. ten past ten
3. fifty minutes to eleven
4. twenty minutes to half past ten

1. twenty-five past six
2. thirty -five to seven
3. twenty-five past seven
4. five minutes to half past six

1. forty-five minutes past seven
2. quarter to nine
3. quarter to eight
4. fifteen minutes past half past seven

1. half past four
2. half past five
3. half to four
4. half to five

7 

minutes past 4

half 

past
8

6 

minutes 

past 11

8 

minutes 

to 3

6

minutes to 8

twenty-six minutes past eight

1. eight minutes past half past twelve
2. eight minutes past half past eleven
3. twenty-two minutes to twelve
4. twenty-two minutes to eleven

1. five minutes to half past six
2. twenty-five minutes past two
3. five minutes to half past seven
4. twenty-five minutes to two

1. six minutes past half past eight
2. twenty-four minutes past nine
3. six minutes past half past nine
4. twenty-four minutes to nine

1. nine minutes to twelve
2. fifty-one minutes past eleven
3. nine minutes to eleven
4. fifty-one minutes to twelve

Months

Always start with a capital letter

(hoofdletter)
Abbreviated forms (afkortingen): 
First 3 letters of the month:
Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - Aug - Sep - 

Oct - Nov - Dec

Days

Always start with a capital letter (= hoofdletter)

Text

Text

Match the days and months in Dutch to the ones in English

Dinsdag

Zaterdag

Woensdag

Maart

Augustus

August

Saturday

March

Tuesday

Wednesday

What is today's date?

You could say:

The grand opening is on the first of June.

The day first and then the month.

It's the twelfth of October today. 

British English: DAY/MONTH/YEAR

You could say:

The grand opening is on June the first.

The month first and then the day. 

It is October the twelfth today. 

American English: MONTH/DAY/YEAR

Two ways to say the date

Your turn!

Practise with writing the days and dates

Do: exercise 8a,b (page 49)

What's next?

• vocab card game
• Homework: 
• Do: exercise 10,11 & 12 (page 51 and 52)
• Study: grammar 2.4 (page 98) & vocab lesson 2.2 (page 99)