Times

10:00 ten o'clock

10:05 five past ten (AmE five after ten)

10:15 quarter past ten / ten fifteen

10:20 twenty past ten / ten twenty

10:30 half past ten / ten thirty

10:40 twenty to eleven / ten forty

10:45 quarter to eleven / ten forty-five

10:55 five to eleven (AmE five of eleven) / ten fifty-five

12 a.m. = midnight

3 a.m. = 3 in the morning

12 p.m. = noon / midday

6 p.m. = 6 in the evening

What time is it, please? It's half past two. / It's two thirty.

When is the meeting? / What time is the meeting?

It's at nine thirty in the morning.

9:15 = early 9:30 = on time 9:45 = late

When do you start / finish work? What time does the bank open / close?

Days, months, seasons, dates

Days Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Months January February March April May June July August September October November December

Seasons Spring Summer Autumn Winter

16/3/2004 = the sixteenth of March, two thousand and four (BrE)

3/16/2004 = March sixteenth, two thousand four (AmE)

in spring, in January, on Monday, on Tuesday 18th August

Prices and percentages

How much is it? / How much does it cost?

dollars, cents: $230 = two hundred and thirty dollars

95? = ninety-five cents

$12.50 = twelve dollars and fifty cents / two dollars fifty

euros, cents: b120 = a hundred and twenty euros

b9.20 = nine euros twenty / nine euros and twenty cents

pounds, pence: 31.40 = thirty-one forty / thirty-one pounds and forty pence

What percentage of businesses use the Internet?

75% = seventy-five percent

2.5% = two point five percent

Weight, volume, dimension

Weight

92g = ninety-two grams

25kg = twenty-five kilos

Volume

50ml = fifty millilitres

3l = three litres

Dimension

80mm = eighty millimetres

10cm = ten centimetres

5m = five metres

How heavy is it? How big is it? How big is it?

How much does it weigh? What?s the volume? What are the dimensions?

15m x 10m x 8m = fifteen metres by ten metres by eight metres

15m long, 10m wide, 8m high

length 15m, width 10m, height 8m