223 – Using Take To Talk About Time – English Vocabulary Lesson

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Take is an interesting word in English because it has a lot of different uses. For today’s English lesson, let’s have a look at how to use take to talk about time in everyday English conversation and writing.

Here are the example sentences:
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The flight from New York to Tokyo takes 13 hours.
It takes about three hours to make homemade bread.
Learning a language takes a lot of time.

It takes Jack an hour to get to work.
It took me thirty minutes to wash the dinner dishes.v
It took us a few weeks to settle into our new office.

Jen: How long does it take to get from NYC to Miami?
Jack: It takes about three hours by plane.

Jen: How long does it take you to bake homemade bread?
Jack: It takes me about 4 hours.

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