1. Telling the time
Analogue clocks

2. Traditional clocks that look like the ones here are called analogue clocks. These are the clocks we use first when we are learning to tell the time. They come in all shapes and sizes.

3. All about time
There are two long pointers on clocks. They are called ‘hands’. The ‘big hand’, shown here, is also called the ‘minute hand’.
The minute hand tells you how many minutes have passed in each hour. Click the red square for more information
sixty minutes past
fifty five minutes past
five minutes past
fifty minutes past
ten minutes past
forty five minutes past
fifteen minutes past
forty minutes past
twenty minutes past
thirty five minutes past
twenty five minutes past
thirty minutes past
Each number the big hand passes is the same as five minutes in time. Each hour is sixty minutes long.

4. This clock says 6 o’clock. The ‘little’ hand is pointing to the 6
This clock says 6 o’clock. The ‘little’ hand is pointing to the 6. The ‘little’ hand is also called the ‘hour’ hand. It moves more slowly than the minute hand.
Click the red square move the clock on by sixty minutes.
The minute hand has moved all the way around the clock but the hour hand has only moved a short distance to the next number. The minute hand moves more quickly than the hour hand.

5. Facts about time There are 60 seconds in each minute!
It takes the big or minute hand 60 minutes to go all the way around the clock.
There are 60 minutes in 1 hour.
It takes the little or hour hand 24 hours to go all the way around the clock.
There are 24 hours in 1 day.

6. More facts
When the big or minute has moved to the number 12 it is called ‘o’clock’.
When the big or minute has moved to the number 3 it is called ‘quarter past’.
When the big or minute has moved to the number 6 it is called ‘half past’.
When the big or minute has moved to the number 9 it is called ‘quarter to’.

7. More facts
When the minute hand has moved to ‘half past’ each hour we stop saying the word ‘past’ and start using the word ‘to’. So…
35 minutes past is called 25 minutes to
40 minutes past is called 20 minutes to
45 minutes past is called quarter to
50 minutes past is called 10 minutes to
55 minutes past is called 5 minutes to

8. twenty five minutes past
It works like this
o’clock
five minutes to
five minutes past
ten minutes to
ten minutes past
quarter to
quarter past
twenty minutes to
twenty minutes past
twenty five minutes to
twenty five minutes past
half past
Click on the red square

9. Clock image available from www.istockphoto.com
Presentation ©Bev Evans, 2007