Year 7 · Languages · School life · Lesson 3
Telling the time and the school day
Telling the time in French (heures, et quart, et demie, moins le quart), days of the week, and describing when lessons happen.
16-minute video lesson
Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.
Watch free for a monthWhat your child will learn
- Ask and tell the time
- Use quarter past, half past and quarter to
- Name the days of the week
- Describe a school timetable
The method
- Day.
- j'ai + subject.
- à + time.
- moins le quart.
Key words: l'heure, il est … heures, et demie, moins le quart, les jours, à.
Worked examples
The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.
Question 1
What does ‘Quelle heure est-il ?’ mean?
- Step 1: Time
Answer: What time is it?
Question 2
Say ‘It's 2 o'clock’.
- Step 1: deux
Answer: Il est deux heures.
Question 3
Say ‘It's 7 o'clock’.
- Step 1: sept
Answer: Il est sept heures.