2-14 USING IT TO TALK ABOUT TIME

 

CHAPTER 2

Expressing Present Time (Part 1)

 

2-14 USING IT TO TALK ABOUT TIME

 

     QUESTION                                              ANSWER

(a) What day is it?                                           It’s Monday.

(b) What month is it?                                      It’s September.

(c) What year is it?                                          It’s                 .

(d) What’s the date today?                             It’s September 15th.

                                                                        It’s the 15th of September.

(e) What time is it?                                          It’s 9:00.*

                                                                        It’s nine.

                                                                        It’s nine o’clock.

                                                                        It’s nine (o’clock) A.M..

* American English uses a colon (two dots) between the hour and the minutes: 9:00 A.M., British English uses one dot: 9.00 A.M.

 

In English, people use it to express (to talk about) time.

Look at Appendixes 2 and 3 in the back of the book for lists of days, months, and numbers.

Look at Appendix 4 in the back of the book for ways of saying the time.

 

Exercise:

Make questions. Use what in your questions.

1.      A: What day is it?

B: It’s Tuesday.

2.      A: ___________________________________

B: It’s March 14th.

3.      A: ___________________________________

B: Ten-thirty.

4.      A: ___________________________________

B: March.

5.      A: ___________________________________

B: It’s six-fifteen.

6.      A: ___________________________________

B: The 1st of April.