Money, times and dates come up all day at home, and British people say them in short, casual ways. Learners often hear "It's a tenner" or "See you at half seven" and freeze. Speakers of German and Dutch have a special trap: in their languages "half seven" means 6.30, but in British English it means 7.30. In this episode: • Pounds and pence • Clock times • Dates: day first • The scene with decode lines • Home examples • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: £3.50 — three pounds fifty, or just three fifty (casual) 50p — fifty pee (casual and very common) £1 — a pound; a pound coin is the coin a fiver — a five-pound note (casual) a tenner — a ten-pound note (casual) twenty quid — twenty pounds (casual); quid never takes an S change — the money you get back contactless — paying by touching your card on the machine half price — fifty per cent off two for one — buy one, get another free How much is it? — asking a price (neutral) five past seven — 7.05 quarter past seven — 7.15 half seven — 7.30 (casual); half past seven (neutral) quarter to eight — 7.45 ten to eight — 7.50 gone six — after six o'clock (casual): It's gone six, where's Dad? eighteen forty-five — 18.45, a twenty-four-hour time used on timetables and tickets the twenty-seventh of October — the usual spoken form October the twenty-seventh — also common in speech 27th October — common written form the first, the second, the third — ordinals, the numbers for order the twenty-first, the twenty-second, the thirty-first — ordinals with tens twenty twenty-six — the year 2026 Real British English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — modern British accent, everyday grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, he/she/it for things, and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.