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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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Telling Time: What Time is it?

Telling Time: What Time is it?

Jeff Genet
  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 ...
1 Views 18,417 BegElemPre-Int
Telling the Time Board Game

Telling the Time Board Game

, Telling Time
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 ...
1 Views 27,670 Int
Telling The Time Difference Between Two Clocks

Telling The Time Difference Between Two Clocks

Kousi
, Telling Time,
  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 ...
1 Views 9,997 Elem
Telling the Time Board Game

Telling the Time Board Game

, Telling Time
  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 ...
1 Views 11,509 Pre-Int
Prepositions of Time: 'At', 'In' or 'On'

Prepositions of Time: 'At', 'In' or 'On'

Dawid Brunette
  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 ...
1 Views 10,483 Int
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Morning Routines

Morning Routines

Guilherme G Tidon
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 ...
1 Views 16,083 Elem
Telling Time - General Rules

Telling Time - General Rules

» Telling Time
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 ...
9 Views 36,830 BegElem
Drawing Clock Hands - Time in Words

Drawing Clock Hands - Time in Words

» Telling Time
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 ...
6 Views 41,592 BegElem
Telling the Time

Telling the Time

Angelika
» Telling Time
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 ...
9 Views 34,468 ElemPre-Int
Game: Daily Routine- Volcano

Game: Daily Routine- Volcano

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 ...
8 Views 26,883 BegElem
Daily Routine (Listening)

Daily Routine (Listening)

, Telling Time
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 ...
5 Views 32,473 BegElem
Dates and Times

Dates and Times

, Telling Time
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.
7 Views 32,879 BegElem
Clock

Clock

» Telling Time
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, ...
6 Views 20,825 All
Time Game

Time Game

» Telling Time
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 ...
9 Views 22,826 Elem
Telling the Time

Telling the Time

Antonia Martins
» Telling Time
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 ...
11 Views 45,777 Beg
How much? How Old? What's the Time?

How much? How Old? What's the Time?

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 ...
7 Views 16,811 BegElemPre-IntExam
Telling the Time Cutout Student Desktop Clock (without Numbers)

Telling the Time Cutout Student Desktop Clock (without Numbers)

Flashcard Encyclopedia
» Telling Time
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 ...
9 Views 19,465 BegElemPre-IntInt
Telling the Time Cutout Student Desktop Clock (with Numbers)

Telling the Time Cutout Student Desktop Clock (with Numbers)

Flashcard Encyclopedia
» Telling Time
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 ...
7 Views 20,548 BegElemPre-IntInt
Telling the Time Clock Flashcard with Adjustable Hands (with Numbers)

Telling the Time Clock Flashcard with Adjustable Hands (with Numbers)

Flashcard Encyclopedia
» Telling Time
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 ...
10 Views 30,494 BegElemPre-IntInt
Classroom Poster - What's the Time?

Classroom Poster - What's the Time?

» Telling Time
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 ...
19 Views 51,637 BegElemPre-Int
Daily Routines Worksheet for Kids

Daily Routines Worksheet for Kids

, Telling Time
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 ...
10 Views 94,537 BegElem
Clocks

Clocks

vuthao
» Telling Time
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 ...
12 Views 27,455 Elem
Simple Present and Time

Simple Present and Time

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 ...
10 Views 25,253 BegElem
Telling the Time

Telling the Time

» Telling Time
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 ...
15 Views 26,945 BegElem
Memory Game/ Time

Memory Game/ Time

» Telling Time
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 ...
10 Views 27,640 Elem

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