ENGLISH

2-14 USING ITTO TALK ABOUT TIME
QUESTION
(a) What day is it?
(b) What month is it?
(c) What year is it?
(d) What's the date today?
( e) What time is it?
ANSWER
It's Monday.
It's September.
I t ' s .
It's September 15th.
It's the 15th of September.
It's 9:00.*
It's nine.
It's nine o'clock.
It's nine (o'clock) 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.
*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.
EXERCISE 30: Make questions. Use what in your questions.
1. A: What dav is it?
B: It's 'lkesday.
2. A:
B: It's March 14th.
4. A:
B: March.
5. A:
B: It's six-fifteen.
B: The 1st of April
7. A:
B: Wednesday.
8. A:
B: July 3rd.
9. A:
B: It's 6:05.
10. A:
B: It's 1055.