FrenchA1Lesson 5.1
🇫🇷 French A1 · Lesson 5.1

Quelle heure est-il ? — Telling the time

Ask and tell the time, and the days of the week.

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A quick exchange about meeting times.

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Quelle heure est-il ?What time is it? 🔊
Il est une heureIt's one o'clock 🔊
Il est deux heuresIt's two o'clock 🔊
et demiehalf past 🔊
lundiMonday 🔊
le week-endthe weekend 🔊

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« Il est trois heures et demie. » 🔊
It's half past three.
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Quelle heure est-il ? 🔊What time is it?
Il est trois heures et demie. 🔊It's half past three.
À quelle heure est le cours ? 🔊What time is the class?
À quatre heures, lundi. 🔊At four, on Monday.
Grammar in focus · il est … heures

Use « Il est une heure » for one o'clock and « Il est deux heures » (plural heures) for the rest. « et demie » = half past.

Write it yourself

Write your timetable for one day: two activities and the time of each.

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Tip for this task
Bien ! « une heure » (sing.) but « deux heures » (pl.).

Quick check

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1. “It's two o'clock” is…
2. « et demie » means…
3. « lundi » is…
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