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Welcome to today's lesson!
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It's all about telling time.
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Two o'clock, half past four, 6.30, quarter to nine, 2100, noon.
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What?!
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I'm Arnel from Arnel's Everyday English and today you will become super confident in telling time in English.
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Here I have a clock.
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Remember this is a clock and this is a watch.
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Remember there's a difference.
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What time is it?
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It's one o'clock.
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What time is it?
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It's two o'clock.
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What time is it?
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It's three o'clock.
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What time is it?
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It's four o'clock.
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You get the idea.
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In English when we speak about the time we always say it is.
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Contracted it's.
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It's five o'clock, it's six o'clock,
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it's seven o'clock, it's twelve o'clock.
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If you need to be very specific, we can say a.m and p.m.
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But normally when you're speaking, it's obvious.
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Okay, Arnel, I need you here tomorrow at 6.
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6?
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Perfect!
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See you tomorrow!
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6 a.m.
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A.m?
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12 o'clock.
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It's time for lunch.
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Maybe not in your country,
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but in the USA and in the UK 12 o'clock is lunchtime.
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We can also say noon.
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12 o'clock in the afternoon is noon.
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I'll see you tomorrow at noon.
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What time is it?
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12 o'clock.
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It's midnight.
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I went to bed at midnight.
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Let's get more specific.
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We have a very simple way, there's also a more confusing way,
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but actually this is very easy.
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Let's go through both step by step.
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I have my clock.
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I'm going to use a digital clock here.
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Now it's 1 0 5.
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We pronounce the zero oh now it's 110
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now it's 115 it's 120 it's 145 you can always read the time from left to right with every time.
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It's 820.
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It's 730.
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It's 422.
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It's 1010.
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It's 355.
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But of course, there's another way.
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Let's take a look.
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I have my clock.
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This part is past.
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This part is two.
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Now let's have the hour hand at one.
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It's five past one.
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Ten past one.
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It's quarter past one.
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15 is always quarter past.
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It's 20 past one.
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It's 25 past one.
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It's half past one.
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30 is always half past.
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Let's continue.
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It's 25 to 2.
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It's 20 to 2.
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It's quarter to 2.
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45 is always quarter 2.
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It's 10 to 2.
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It's 5 to 2.
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Now it's 2.
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Always remember quarter past, half past, quarter 2.
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Now it's 2.28.
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Is it really necessary to be so specific?
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Usually no. It's around 2.30.
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It's around half past two.
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Whenever we're telling time you could always use around to give a general period.
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I'll see you tomorrow around nine.
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This could mean ten to nine.
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This could mean 10 past 9.
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Around 9. At.
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Of course, when we tell the time we say it is,
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now it is 2, now it is 4,
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but we use at when we want to say when an activity starts or ends.
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My English lesson starts at 9 in the morning.
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It finishes at 11 in the morning.
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Many of our phones, computers,
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schedules etc. use the 24-hour clock.
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But in English, for example, we would only say 3 o'clock.
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We wouldn't say 15 o'clock, 16 o'clock.
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3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, that's normal.
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Really only in a military type situation would you read out the numbers.
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2100. Oh 100.
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What time is it?
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Do you have the time?
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These are two different ways to ask for the time.
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We do not say, how late is it?
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Arnel, How late is it?
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You have been fantastic!
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In the comments below, tell me what time it is!
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I want to know when you watch this video.
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Please subscribe and I'll see you very soon for another video.
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Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel A2 se basa en el vídeo “TIME IN ENGLISH”. Las palabras que más se repiten: quarter, clock, English, noon, tomorrow. Este vídeo tiene 107 frases y 569 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 8:06. El hablante habla despacio, unas 70 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

12 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
clock sustantivo/klɑk/cuentakilómetros
noon sustantivo/nun/mediodía
lesson sustantivo/ˈlɛs.ən/lección
midnight sustantivo/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/medianoche, madrugada
subscribe verbo/səbˈskɹaɪb/suscribirse, subscribirse
confuse verbo/kənˈfjuːz/confundir, barahustar
schedule sustantivo/ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/horario, itinerario
lunch sustantivo/lʌnt͡ʃ/almuerzo, comida
obvious adjetivo/ˈɑb.vi.əs/obvio, evidente
whenever/wəˈnɛvɚ/cuando quiera, cuandoquiera
zero sustantivo/ˈzɪɹoʊ/cero
normally adverbio/ˈnɔː.mə.li/normalmente, de costumbre

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
go through verboatravesar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

  • I'll see you tomorrow at noon.
  • Let's go through both step by step.
  • I'm going to use a digital clock here.
  • Do you have the time?
  • We do not say, how late is it?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicciónwill become · I'll see
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasyou're speaking · we're telling

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 8 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'll, I'm, we're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: twelve /twɛlv/, obvious /ˈɑb.vi.əs/, whenever /wəˈnɛvɚ/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: confuse /kənˈfjuːz/, zero /ˈzɪɹoʊ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como clock, noon, lesson.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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