 This is Mark. I'm doing just great. Thanks for asking. What time is it? It's half past one p.m. or is one thirty p.m.? When shall we meet? Let's meet in the evening. In this lesson, we're going to look at the time and prepositions of time at, on and in. So stay tuned. Okay, for some students, this lesson might be easy. However, I would like to review with you the time and expressions of time at, in and on. Let's look at the questions that you might ask when asking for the time. What time is it? Please, always please at the end of a sentence or of a question, of course. What's the time, please? Do you have the time, please? May I ask you for the time, please, or may I ask you for the time just as a formal way to ask for the time? Dot the time and this is informal, informal English. Then you can ask for what time are we meeting this evening or like in my introductory example, when shall we meet? So these are ways of asking for the time. Now I'm going to look at the drawing that I designed for you and this is a clock. Okay, I divide it half of it as a two and the other half for past. Then nine and three would be a quarter. If it's in this side would be a quarter two. And if it's on this side, it would be a quarter past. Then we have a clock at the top. And then at the bottom of, so at half, at six, it would be half, half past. Now a lot of people ask me about AM and PM. AM means anti-meridium. So after midnight, after midnight to 11.59 almost midday, almost midday. So this is for AM. And I will give some examples just in a minute. PM instead is for post-meridium. And this is after midday until 11.59 almost midnight. So it's the opposite of AM, obviously. Now I'm going to erase this and I'm going to show you how to tell the time. So going back to the time, I said that we use AM or PM. Yes, that's right. When you want to be specific. Sometimes you don't need to be specific because, for example, if somebody asked me the time right now and I say is one, it's obvious that is one PM and not AM. So sometimes is not needed. Is not needed to say AM or PM. Now another thing that I want to say about the time is that sometimes people use 1300s or 13 is 13 o'clock. Okay, sometimes is possible to say that. And it is mainly used for schedules, for train schedules, for airplane schedules, etc. And this is used in Europe. Now there are two ways of saying the time. I'm going to show you first the most difficult one. Okay, the one that students have problems with. And then I'm going to show you the easiest one. And you can choose which one to use. So the formula for the most difficult one is it's plus minutes plus past or to plus hour, the hour that you want to say, or the next hour. I'm going to give you some examples just to show you the difference. So for example, seven and you see the seven and then 15 there. So it's a quarter. So we said a quarter right here is a quarter because it's 15. Past in this side is past past seven. Okay, so we can say we can this will be the time. Okay, right there is a quarter first and minutes past seven. The next one, seven. And then we have the number 30. So half, half, because it's right here. Let's just write the hands. Okay, so it's half past seven, half past the first minutes, then past and then the hour seven. Another example, ten is ten past seven is ten past seven. So this is easy. This is on this side. Now let's look at the other side is seven. And then we have 45 a quarter, a quarter to a quarter to next hour here, a quarter to eight to eight because it's going to be eight. So right, you can see the hand right there that is going to fall into the eight hour. So it's a quarter, a quarter because it's 45 to eight. Let's look at another example, seven thirty six. So it's, let's just draw right there. More or less is 24, 24 minutes. You can add minutes if you want. If not, you can leave it 24 minutes to eight, to eight o'clock. Okay, 24 minutes to eight. Now another example, it's ten minutes to eight next hour, seven fifty. This is the most difficult one. And if you want to say it's eight o'clock, you just say eight o'clock or you can say it's eight on the dot, on the dot. Okay, right there, on the dot. Now this is the most difficult one. Let's look at the easiest one. The formula is hour plus minutes. Very easy. So you just say seven ten, what you see written, seven twenty-five, seven thirty, seven forty-five, very, very easy. Now it's your own choice. You can choose this formula or this way of saying the time or this one, the easiest one. It's your choice. Now I'm going to explain the prepositions of time. At, in and on. Okay, so hopefully in English we have rules and sometimes these rules work. So this is the case with at, on and in. At is used for specific times. For example to say the time. So at one thirty p.m. or at half past one. Okay, we also use at for at night, at midnight, at noon, at lunchtime. Then we use at for specific periods. For example, at Christmas, at Easter. So the period of Christmas, the period of Easter. Then we use on. On for what? On for dates or days. For example, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, on Thursday, on the eighth of February. So the specific date. And we also say on Christmas day. It's important that you say day at the end. Otherwise it will be at Christmas, at Easter. So day is very important at the end of on, on Christmas day. Then in. We use in for long periods. So for seasons. In the summer. Then we also use in for months. In May, in June, in July, etc. We also use in to say in the evening, in the morning, etc. Then we use in for years. In 1980, in 1988, in 2000. Then we also use in for centuries. So in the 21st century, in the 20th century, etc., etc. So now let's recap. In English there are two ways of saying the time. One using to and past. And the other one just saying the number. For example, seven, the hour. And then the minutes. Seven, fifty, for example. Obviously it's up to you which one to use. In this video I also talked about at, on and in. At we use it for specific times. On for dates or days. And in for long periods of time. I hope you enjoyed the lesson. If you have any comments, requests, or if you want to post your own example, you may do so under this video. Don't forget to share the video if you liked it. And don't forget to subscribe to my channel, obviously. Next week you'll get a new lesson. Have a great day and see you next week. Take care, bye-bye.