What time is it? Time to grab some worksheets on telling time from BusyTeacher.org! Your ESL students are sure to love the 124 worksheets we offer - and they cover every aspect of telling time in English, from ordinal numbers, to expressions like “half-past,” to times associated with certain parts of a daily routine. By the time you’ve helped your class work through some of these worksheets, they’ll be telling time in English like they’ve done it all their lives.
Telling the time in English is one of the most crucial skills for lower-level ESL students to learn. Asking and telling the time are two of the most common uses for beginner English - and they’re also helpful skills for ESL students to have as they travel in English-speaking countries. Plus, telling time helps them practice their number vocabulary, as well as important measurement words like “half” and “quarter,” as well as basic prepositions like “from” and “to.”
Even so, teaching your ESL students how to tell time can seem tricky at first. They know their numbers, sure - but every culture describes positions on the clock face a little differently. Some use 24-hour clocks instead of 12-hour - and some don’t have specific words for times like “noon” and “midnight.” How can you help your students keep all this straight? With BusyTeacher.org’s 124 worksheets on telling time, of course! Beginner students will love the bright pictures and easy-to-read words on these worksheets - which makes them great supplements for your textbook’s more detailed coverage of time-telling. They help to make the topic of telling time a little friendlier, and give your visual-thinking students some images on which to hang the new time-related vocabulary they’re learning.
Some of our worksheets come with simple fill-in-the-blank questions and answers, which makes them ideal for use as quizzes and quiet exercises. Others provide frameworks for active games, to get your students out of their seats and thinking about time-telling in a playful way. Still others are perfect for printing out and using as posters, so your class will always have a visual reference point when you call on them to speak about a particular time.
The diversity of these resources comes thanks to our international community of ESL teachers, who’ve made these worksheets and posters available for free, after testing them and finding them useful in their own classrooms around the world. Every worksheet you see here is completely free to download, print, and share however you like. All we ask is that, if you’ve created a helpful worksheet of your own, you share it with the community too, by clicking the “Submit a worksheet” button at the bottom of this page.
Not sure where to start your hunt for the perfect time-telling worksheet? Try taking a look at the top ten most popular worksheets on this page - or search for worksheets that match your keywords, using the search box at the top right. Feel like browsing? All of our worksheets can be previewed in our helpful “Quick View” mode, so you can get a clear look at their first pages before you download them.
And since all of our worksheets are teacher-tested and student-approved, we’re sure your class will love them too. Grab a few and try them out in your classroom today!
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This beginner-level lesson uses common vocabulary and phrases to learn how to talk about the time in English. It includes vocabulary building, visual aids to practice teaching, and telli ...
What time is it, please? The sheet contains two easy board games to practice the vocabulary and expressions that relate to telling the time. Players roll a dice, move the number of spaces and ...
This worksheet helps students learn how to tell and write down the time shown on an analog clock and understand how to tell the difference between the hours and minutes shown in two cloc ...
This easy worksheet consists of a board game to practise the key vocabulary and expressions about telling the time. Students roll a dice, move the number of spaces and read aloud the tim ...
This short worksheet on the topic of Adventure consists of 12 questions using the prepositions of time: At', 'In' or 'On'. Students tick the boxes on the right of the sentences with the ...
In this lesson, learners will listen to a conversation between Sarah and John. They talk about their morning routines and students are asked to (1) listen for the times, (2) get specific informat ...
A fun and visually attractive worksheet teaching the essentials of telling time. This worksheet is designed as more of a lesson than practice opportunities. It can also be used to help with speaki ...
With this worksheet, students must read the time, and then draw the hands on the clock. The time is written our. For example, 3:45 is written as quarter to four. This worksheet helps students lear ...
A simple PowerPoint presentation for telling the time. It consists of 12 pictures of clocks or watches. You can use it to explain the concept of telling the time or just practise it. There is a nu ...
This game is appropriate for reviewing time, daily routine and present simple. It's suitable for young learners. Divide the class into 2 groups ask them to choose a number, back of each number th ...
This worksheet is appropriate for practicing listening and daily routine activities. This is based on the book Tactics for Listening, Basic, unit 4. It's suitable for elementary students ...
This worksheet is appropriate for practicing and teaching times and dates. It's suitable for elementary students. Hope you find it useful in your classes.
This worksheet is useful for practicing and telling the time. Print and cut the clocks, you can draw the pointers. Put the cards on the table. And ask students to come and stand around the table, ...
Cut the cards and write numbers 1-18 on the other side of each card. Place them on the board and put your students into two teams. They take turns to choose a number and say the time. If they say ...
Telling the time activity practices asking and telling the time in English. It contains a multiple choice questions exercise which prepares and leads students to the less controlled one wher ...
The worksheet is about asking and answering how much questions. It is recommended for elementary school beginners as it has letters to trace. The background knowledge is the numbers and it also ha ...
This handout from Flashcard Encyclopedia provides each student with their own desktop clock as well as an ideal craft lesson for teachers. The handout prints out conveniently onto A4 and requires ...
This handout from Flashcard Encyclopedia provides each student with their own desktop clock as well as an ideal craft lesson for teachers. The handout prints out conveniently onto A4 and requires ...
This handout from Flashcard Encyclopedia is an ideal alternative to awkwardly handling a large set of cards to teach time to ESL learners. The card prints out conveniently onto A4 and requires the ...
I've created this poster to have a quick overview at hand on the subject of telling time. It has been carefully designed to be visually attractive yet still provides pupils with all the informatio ...
This worksheet is made for children around 6-8 years old to review daily routines vocabulary and telling the time. This worksheet contains three activities: 1. The teacher has to randoml ...
Help students to tell the time and practise it in daily conversation. It has wonderful pictures of clocks so that kids might get interested. Kids can practice with each other with the images of cl ...
This worksheet is useful for reviewing simple present (esp for third-person). and asking about time. It contains two questions which are based on pictures, and one writing task. This worksheet is ...
This power-point presentation is useful for teaching and reviewing time related vocabulary and how to ask and tell the time. It contains different times of the day. It is appropriate for comp ...
This worksheet contains a game for practicing time. Cut the cards. Put the students into pairs or small groups. Ask them to put the cards on the desk and look at them for a minute. Then, turn them ...
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