Don´t forget to change the time by one hour next Saturday

Twice a year many countries in the world decide to change the time by one hour. We do this because we want to use more light from the sun. It's easier for people who work outside if we change the time. It's better for people that have to do a lot of driving too.

We change the time at the end of October and March. In October we make the time one hour earlier and in March, one hour later.

• Most people change their clocks the night before. 
• Most people have four or five clocks to change.
• Computers will automatically change the time for users.
• The first day after the change in October you can stay in bed for another hour. Excellent!

HOMEWORK: Copy and answer these questions, or write a text with your answers.

1. How many clocks do you have in your house?
2. When did you change your clocks? Who changed them?
3. Did you change the time on your computer? Why?
4. When did you go to sleep on Saturday?
5. When did you get up on Sunday?
6. How many hours did you sleep?
7. Do you like  the change? Why?

The world clock 

National Day of Spain

Why is there no school next Friday the 12th of October? 

List of  National Days around the world

Cristopher Colombus History video

                                 CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS´ TEXT 

       

  On Friday, the 12 th of October, 2012 we celebrate the National Day of Spain. It commemorates when Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. He was born in Genoa, a city of Italy, the thirty - first of October, 1451. He wanted to go to India, in the east, like Marco Polo to obtain spices.

On August, 3, 1492 he set sail from Palos de la Frontera, in Huelva, with a hundred men and with three ships called the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. He stopped in the Canary Islands. On September, 6, 1492 he left the Canary Islands.
He arrived in America the12th of October, 1492, but he thought it was India. 

By Antonio Varela  Muñoz