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Vocabulary: expressing time
We have already worked a lot on "TIME": the one we have ( or not), the one we save or waste, the one we make up for, but I think the need for more training is still important!
Therefore, here are the main expressions enabling you to speak (and understand) when conversations are dealing with it!
To have time to do something |
To have plenty of time to |
To save time |
To play for time |
To lose/ waste time (To lose, I lost, lost) |
To make up for lost time |
It takes ages! |
It's about time! |
- I haven't got time to do it!
- To pass the time/ to while the time away
- To spend one's time doing sth
- To take a long time to do sth
- It's high time he left!
- Time flies!
- There isn't much time left!
- As time goes by (in the present)/ as time went by (in the past)
At the same time |
At the same moment |
At that moment |
Just as... |
As soon as |
Simultaneous/ simultaneously |
- as soon as I saw him/ the moment I saw him
Just a minute! |
Just a second! |
A moment |
An instant |
Immediate/ immediately |
Instant/ instantly |
At once: right away: straight away: forthwith (formal) AmEnglish: momentarily |
BEWARE! momentarily= for a moment, briefly. (British English)
On time |
In time |
Timely |
Punctual/ punctually/ punctuality |
Early/ earlier/ earlier than |
Premature/ prematurely |
Late/ later (on)/ later than |
Not later than |
Sooner or later |
For the time being |
- to be early/ to arrive early for
- to be late/ to arrive late for
Already |
At last |
Still |
Yet |
Not... yet |
When |
As |
The day when |
Never/ not ever |
At no time |
- BE: I have already told you/ AE: I already told you/ AE: I told you already
- Here you are at last!
- Is he still here?
- Has he arrived yet?
- I haven't seen him yet.
- I have never seen her/ I haven't ever seen her.
- Did he ever understand ...? Didn't he ever understand...?
Quite a lot of expressions, of course, but you don't have to remember them all.
I'm sure you won't find the test difficult!
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