19 Numerals: time and date

Russian

English

If I want to know the time I look at my watch. I've got a gold wrist-watch with a leather strap. It keeps fairy good time, but occasionally it goes wrong. When it does that, I take it to a watchmaker and have it repaired, cleaned and regulated.
I don't think you'll find it very difficult to tell the time in English. First of all, let's deal with the hours: we say, it's one o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock and so on. Twelve o'clock may refer to midnight or to midday. Then for the quarters we say, for instance, it's a quarter past eight, half-past eight, a quarter to nine. Sometimes people just say eight-fifteen, instead of half-past eight. We say other times as follows: five minutes past eight, or simply, five past eight. Similarly, ten past eight, rwenty past eight, twenty-five past eight, twenty-five to nine, twenty to nine, ten to nine, five to nine.
Referring to dates, we say, for instance: Henry VIII was born on the twenty-eight of January, fifteen forty-seven.
Be careful to pronounce distinctly thirteen, thirty; fourteen, forty; fifteen, fifty; sixteen, sixty; and so on. Then learn: a hundred, a hundred and one, two hundred and seventy-six, a thousand, three thousand three handred and eighty-seven.

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