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1. Write the 24-hour time for the following:
                    (a) 7 o’clock in the morning  (b) 7 p.m.

                    (c) 12 midnight                  (d) noon or midday
                    (e) 11 a.m.                      (f) 11 p.m.


               2. Write the 24-hour time for the following:
                    (a) an hour before midnight   (b) an hour before midday
                    (c) two hours after midnight  (d) two hours after midday

                    (e) six hours before midnight  (f)  six hours after midday


               3. Write the 24-hour time for the following:
                   (a) 20 minutes after 1 p.m.

                   (b) 20 minutes to 1 p.m.

                   (c) quarter past 3 in the afternoon

                   (d) 25 minutes past 4 a.m.


               4. Write these 24-hour times as 12-hour times. Write the times
                   in numbers and in words.
                   (a) 10:00        (b) 10:15        (c) 10:30        (d) 10:45
                   (e) 12:00        (f) 24:00        (g) 08:35        (h) 16:35


               6.5  Hours, minutes and seconds

               1. Ask your teacher for a stopwatch. A stopwatch counts seconds
                   and minutes. Let a classmate time you. Practise until you can
                   count to 10 in 10 seconds.

               2. (a)  Estimate how many times you can bounce a tennis ball in
                       one minute.

                   (b) Ask your teacher for a tennis ball. Let the teacher time
                       you on the stopwatch. Bounce the tennis ball and count
                       the number of bounces in one minute.








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