Clock and Time Telling Vocabulary Words for Kids

Time plays a vital role in everyone’s life. Here we would be discussing the words that are generally used while describing time. Later we would see some examples on how to tell time using some time phrases.

Clock and Time Telling Vocabulary for Kids

Following is a list of words related to time and duration for kids to teach.

after Afternoon afterward Alarm
Clock Am Analog Clock 
Annual Meridian Anytime Autumn
Autumnal Equinox Bedtime Beforehand
Belated Bell Bicentennial Biennial
Calendar Calendar Year Century Chronological
Chronometer Clock Clockface Coordinated
Universal Time Cuckoo Clock Day Daylight
Daylight Savings Time days Of the Week Daytime Decade
Decennium Delay Delayed Dial
Digital Clock DST Early Open
Poch Equinox Era Evening
Everyday Face –  Dial Of The Clock Fall Fiscal Year
Fortnight Future Galactic Year Geologic Time
Gnomon Grandfather clock Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Meridian
Half-life Hands  High noon Horology hour
Hour hand Hourglass IDL International Date Line
Jiffy Jubilee Late Later
Leap Second Leap Year Luman Month
Meridian  Microsecond Mid-afternoon Mid-morning
Midnight Millennium Millisecond Minute
Minute hand Moment Momentarily Month
Morning Nanosecond Night Nighttime
Noon Now O’clock On time
Overtime Past Pendulum Clock Per Annum
Per diem Period Picosecond PM
Pocket watch Post Meridian Premature Present time
Prime Meridian Punctual Quarter Hour Quartz Clock
Quaver Schedule Seasons Second
Second Hand Semester Semiquaver Shift
Side Real-Time Solstice Someday
Sometimes Soon Spring Stopwatch
Summer Summer Solstice sundial  Sunrise
Sunset Synchronized Tardy Tempo
Then Time Time Zone Time Keeper
Time Piece Timer Time Table Today
Tomorrow Tonight Triennium Trimester
Twilight UTC Vernal Equinox Watch 
Water Clock Week Winter Winter Solstice
Wristwatch Year Yesterday YesterYear
Zone  Zulu Time    

Clock Time Telling Phrases Chart

The chart below shows you two different ways to tell someone what the time is.

3.00 three o’clock three
3.02 just gone three o’clock three oh two
3.03 three minutes past three three oh three
3.05 five past three three oh five
3.09 nine minutes past three three oh nine
3.10 ten past three three ten
3.15 a quarter past three three fifteen
3.20 twenty past three three twenty
3.21 twenty-one minutes past three three twenty-one
3.25 twenty-five past three three twenty-five
3.30 half past three three thirty
3.35 twenty-five to four three thirty-five
3.40 twenty to four three forty
3.45 a quarter to four three forty-five
3.50 ten to four three fifty
3.55 five to four three fifty-five
3.57 three minutes to four three fifty-seven
3.58 nearly four o’clock three fifty-eight
4.00 four o’clock four

Keep exploring EnglishBix to find clock and time telling worksheets for practice.

Teachers and Parents can use the following image to help their kids quickly revise what we have just learnt.

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