Let's Talk About The Time | Intermediate English Lesson

What time is 2-ish?

What about "some God-forsaken hour"?

If someone tells you to come to their giraffe tennis match at "twenty-one hundred hours," what does that mean?

Who invented time?

And what's up with the French revolution and decimal time?

I answer all these questions, and more, in this intermediate English lesson.


Speak natural English more fluently with this video lesson on intermediate English vocabulary.

In this intermediate English lesson, you'll learn natural words and phrases to talk about telling the time and talking about the time in English.

Words and phrases like:

the fourth dimension
What time do you make it?”
The film starts at 21 hundred hours
“it’s coming up to two
have a 6am start
end up going to bed at stupid o’clock
an early bird
a night owl

... and many more!

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Vocabulary in the video:


the fourth dimension
24 time zones
California is ahead 5 hours
behind 21
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time
setting our clocks
What time is it?
It's four o'clock.
What time is it?
Excuse me, but can you tell me the time?
Got the time on you?
What time do you make it?
It's 25 past three.
It's ten to seven.
3.25 (three twenty-five)
7.10 (seven ten)
1.58 (one fifty-eight)
a.m.
p.m.
3.25 a.m.
25 past three p.m.
two to two p.m.
in the morning
in the afternoon
in the evening
at night
3.25 in the morning
1.58 at night
two to two in the afternoon
08:08
eight oh-eight
eleven oh-four
one oh-one
nineteen oh-four
seventeen oh-two
ten oh-one
24-hour time
The film starts at twenty-one hundred hours.
It's oh-seven hundred hours.
We watched the giraffe tennis until twenty-two-hundred hours.
Let's meet at nine thirty tomorrow morning.
I finally finished work at ten p.m.
It's almost two.
It's nearly two.
It's coming up to two.
It's just gone two.
It's just after two.
Yeah. It's two-ish.
Let's meet up at around five-ish.
I usually wake up at seven-ish.
around
about
It's about half past.
I'll see you at around four thirty.
We're leaving at around ten to.
half past
ten to
What kind of time do you call this?
It's the middle of the night!
have a 6 a.m. start
into the small hours
end up going to bed at stupid o'clock
some God-forsaken hour
get up at some God-forsaken hour
early-morning flight
get back home at some God-forsaken hour
a way of dividing the year and months up
do one full cycle around the sun
the first time keeping devices
the precursor to the sundial
water clocks
a pain in the neck to maintain
hourglasses
quantify time periods
mechanical clocks
pendulum clocks
the atomic clocks
accurate for millions of years
make time decimal
this system was abandoned
an early bird
a night owl