15th and 29th July

Daylight Saving Time


1. What is daylight saving time?
2. Does the country that you come from have daylight saving time?
3. Which two States in America do not have daylight saving time, and why?
4. Which was the first country in the world to use daylight saving time, and why?
5. Does daylight saving time currently reduce electricity bills?
6. What are the disadvantages of daylight saving time?
7. Which countries are not consistent in having daylight saving time across the whole country?
8. Do you think daylight saving time is a good idea, and should remain as it is?

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DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME EXPLAINED 

Every year some countries move their clocks forward in the spring only to move them back in the autumn. To the vast majority of the world who doesn’t participate in this odd clock (1)_______________ – it seems a (2)_____________ thing to do. So what’s the reason behind it? The original idea, proposed by George Hudson, was to give people more sunlight in the summer. Of course, it’s important to note that changing a clock doesn’t actually make more sunlight – that’s not how physics works. But, by moving the clocks forward an hour, compared to all other human activity, the sun will seem to both rise and set later. The time when the clocks are moved forward is called Daylight Saving Time and the rest of the year is called (3)________________ Time. This switch effectively gives people more time to enjoy the sunshine and nice summer weather after work. Hudson, in particular, wanted more sunlight so he could spend more time adding to his (4)_____________ collection. When winter is coming the clocks move back, presumably because people won’t want to go outside anymore. But, winter doesn’t have this affect on everyone. If you live in a tropical place like Hawaii, you don’t really have to worry about seasons because they pretty much don’t happen. Every day, all year is sunny and beautiful so christmas is just as good of a day to (5)_________ the beach as any other. As so, Hawaii is one of two states in the Union that ignore daylight saving time. But, the further you travel from the equator in either direction the more the seasons (6) ___________ themselves and you get colder and darker winters, making summer time much more valuable to the locals. So it’s no surprise that the further a country is from the (7) ___________ the more likely it uses daylight saving time. Hudson proposed his idea in Wellington in 1895 – but it wasn’t well received and it took until 1916 for Germany to be the first country to put it into practice. Though, the (8)_________________ Germans were less concerned with catching butterflies on a fine summer evening than they were with saving coal to feed the war machine. The Germans thought daylight saving time would conserve energy. The reasoning goes that it encourages people to stay out later in the summer and thus use less artificial lighting.  This sounds logical, and it may have worked back in the more (9)_______________ society of a hundred years ago, but does it still work in the modern world? That turns out to be a surprisingly difficult question to answer. For example, take mankind’s greatest invention: AIR CONDITIONING. The magic box of cool that makes otherwise (10)__________________ sections of the world quite (11)______________ places to live. But, pumping heat out of your house isn’t cheap and turning on one air conditioner is the same as running dozens of tungsten light bulbs.


IDIOMS 
Unscramble the following idioms: 
1. away years light
2. first at light
3. to the day see light of
4. tunnel end the the light of at
5. new light in a see
6. make something to light of
7. like a light out
8. relief light

Match them to the following definitions: 
1. to be made available, published
2. an extremely long time from now
3. at daybreak
4. in a deep sleep
5. when it seems an unpleasant situation will end
6. to understand someone or something in a different way
7. doing something entertaining or boring after hard or serious work
8. to treat something as though it were unimportant or humorous

Saving the Rainforest

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