Here are the English words and language that we use to talk about time. At the end there's a fun time vocabulary quiz to check your understanding. On the following pages we look in detail at:
Units of Time
How we divide time into years, months, weeks, days etc
Telling the Time
How we ask and tell the time
Telling the Time Song
Listen to Tick Tock Rock, with subtitles.
Day and Night
The parts of the day and how we use them
Days of the Week
Table showing weekdays, weekends, abbreviations
Days of the Week Song
Listen to the days of the week.
Months of the Year
Table showing months and seasons
Months of the Year Song
Listen to the months of the year.
Writing the Date
Differences between formal/informal, British/American
AD and BC
What do they mean and how do we use them?