1.4 Active Listening

• Asking the time: Quelle heure est-il ?
• Saying the time on the 12-hour clock: Il est 11h00, Il est 5h30, Il est onze heures, Il est cinq heures et demie
• Midi, minuit, et quart, et demie, moins le quart; du matin, de l'après-midi, du soir
• Keeping time: à l'heure, en retard, en avance; listening to a school timetable
• Active listening moves: look, wait, nod, repeat the time back, ask Pardon ?

• recall details and information accurately from oral interactions about time
• interpret verbal cues from audio stimuli when someone gives the time
• demonstrate willingness to be receptive to new ideas in oral interactions

“How do you engage a person talking to you?”

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1. Quelle heure est-il ? The hour
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Ask the time with Quelle heure est-il ? and answer with Il est ... heures on the 12-hour clock.
2. Il est 5h30 : half past and the 12-hour clock
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Say half hours with et demie, write 5h30, and place du matin, de l'après-midi and du soir on a 12-hour clock.
3. À l'heure : listening to a timetable
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Recall times from a spoken school day, keep time with à l'heure and en retard, and engage the speaker without interrupting.