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UNIT 5
Half past
Show nine o'clock on your clockface. Then move the minute hand in the clockwise
direction until it reaches six.
After hour
It is nine o'clock. It is half past nine.
While moving from 12 to 6 clockwise, the minute hand moves half ( ) turn.
The time is now half past nine.
Note that the hour hand also moves towards 10.
1. Write down the times shown on the clockfaces.
(a) (b) (c)
It is half past eight It is __________________ It is __________________
2. Show the corresponding times on the clockfaces below.
(a) (b) (c)
Half past three Half past seven Half past ten
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