{"id":6601,"date":"2022-04-09T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2022-04-09T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T14:31:15","slug":"talking-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/talking-about-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:31% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Clock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6603 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Clock.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Clock-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This week, I&#8217;d like to talk about how easily misunderstandings occur when trying to arrange times in English. I can only recommend confirming every appointment with the date and time or you might end up wondering why the other person hasn\u2019t turned up at a prearranged time \u2026 Let\u2019s look at the following examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>A dear student of mine wrote <em>this week<\/em>, \u201cI can\u2019t make the lesson on 25 April so could we have another lesson <em>this week<\/em>.\u201d I thought great, she wants two lessons <em>this week<\/em> without realizing she meant the week starting 25 April which she was perfectly entitled to do. Luckily I checked \u2026<\/li><li>Years ago, I arrived at a lesson on <em>Tuesday <\/em>at 11:00. My student looked at me in surprise and said that our lesson was on <em>Tuesday <\/em>\u2026 Yes, <em>Tuesday <\/em>often gets confused with <em>Thursday <\/em>and can be remembered by the simple \u201ctwo\u201d or second day in the week which Tuesday sounds like. He was really embarrassed and I was cross with myself for not checking.<\/li><li>Then we\u2019ve got <em>next weekend<\/em>. Now when is next weekend or when does it become t<em>his weekend <\/em>which I would probably use from Wednesday onwards. It\u2019s often a good idea to say the coming weekend.<\/li><li>And I nearly forgot the famous <em>half nine<\/em> which I found out soon after I arrived in Germany many years ago and turned up an hour late \u2026<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you know any more and can you see why we need to be specific? Don\u2019t forget to write dates in full e.g. <strong>10 April 2022<\/strong> as 10.04.2022 is early autumn in the US \u2026 and use the 24-hour clock with times e.g. <strong>15:00 CET<\/strong> with a time zone just in case.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I&#8217;d like to talk about how easily misunderstandings occur when trying to arrange times in English. I can only recommend confirming every appointment with the date and time or you might end&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}