Exercise to learn the expressions we use in Spanish when we talk about the subdivision of time
I guess you know the months of the year and the days of the week in Spanish. But maybe you don’t know other important expressions when we talk about the subdivision of time in Spanish. This exercise is useful to complete the vocabulary you need to talk about the length of time and the calendar.
Mes, bimestre, trimestre
Month, two-month period, quarter
A year can be subdivided into different groups of months:
A year can be subdivided into different groups of months.
- Un bimestre: 2 months
- Un trimestre: 3 months
- Un semestre: 6 months
Un cuarto de hora, media hora, tres cuartos de hora
Quarter of an hour, half an hour, three quarters of an hour
The duration of time on the clock also has subdivisions:
- Un cuarto de hora: 15 minutes
- Tres cuartos de hora: 45 minutes
- Media hora: 30 minutes
Here is an exercise with 20 questions to practice calendar and time subdivision
If you answer correctly, you will hear a complete sentence that uses the vocabulary of the exercise. 😃👍
(The transcription of the sentences is below the quiz)
SPANISH EXERCISE
Calendar and subdivision of time
20 questions – Basic Level A1, A2
Look at the image and choose the correct option
(if the answer is correct you will hear the pronunciation 🔊)
Below is the transcription of the audios

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Transcription
- Un día son veinticuatro horas.
- Una semana son siete días.
- Un mes. Agosto tiene treinta y un días.
- Un año tiene doce meses.
- Hoy es jueves.
- Ayer era miércoles.
- Mañana es viernes.
- Pasado mañana es sábado.
- Anteayer era martes.
- El sábado y el domingo son el fin de semana.
- Un minuto son sesenta segundos.
- Una hora son sesenta minutos.
- Una hora y media son noventa minutos.
- Media hora son treinta minutos.
- Un cuarto de hora son quince minutos.
- Una hora y tres cuartos son ciento cinco minutos.
- Tres cuartos de hora son cuarenta y cinco minutos.
- Un bimestre son dos meses.
- Un semestre son seis meses.
- Un trimestre son tres meses.
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