How To Tell An Analogue Time

Analogue Time

It’s easy to tell the time using a digital clock, however telling the time using an analogue clock is harder. Throughout our time we’ll learn about the short hand, long hand, to and past. In order to read an analogue time, we have to know that the long hand is the minutes, and the short hand is the hours. Using both the big hand and little hand lets us know exactly what time it is. Although these two hands are the most important one we’ll still be talking about another hand, the second hand.

Firstly lets learn about the short hand or the hour hand. The short hand tells the hours. If the hour hand is halfway between 2 and 3, that means it is 2 something. If the hour hand is pointing directly at 5 or a tiny bit ahead it’s 5 hours and somethings minutes. (Depending on what the long hand is on) On every analogue clock this hand is moving constantly every minute. Although it only changes to the next hour, when 60 minutes have past. However the long hand (minute hand) is constantly moving every second.

Next let’s learn about the long hand. This hand tells the minutes. Same as the hour hand, it moves constantly however it moves every minute. The long hand moves to the next minute when 60 seconds have past. There are quite a few callouts that comes with the minute hand. There are the callouts to and past. There is quarter to or past something, 45 to something, 45 past something, half past something.

At the beginning I said that we’ll be talking about two vital hands, and one hand that no one really worries about. That 3rd hand is the second hand. This hand moves constantly every second. Once the seconds hand have moved in an 360 degrees. (In a circle.) The minute hand would move to the next minute.

As everybody knows, it’s easy to tell the time using a digital clock, however after reading my explanation you probably know how them both. Throughout our time we’ve learnt about the short hand which, long hand, o’clock, to and past. In order to read an analogue time, we know that the long hand is the minutes, and the short hand is the hours. Using both the big hand and small hand lets us know what the time is.

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For writing, we were asked by Ms Kirkpatrick to write an explanation text. Our topic for this explanation text is, How to read an Analogue Clock. In our introduction we were asked to write in a hook, so that we can capture the person in to reading more. We were give some language features we could use for our introduction, for example, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, and more. Most importantly in our explanation we were to explain, how the small and the long hands work.