US Time switch saves energy

The US has switched to Daylight Savings Time three weeks early in an effort to save energy.
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Baby beats biological clock

A Nottingham woman has just given birth after a new fertility test revealed her biological clock was ticking away.
Test results showed that Joanne Morgan needed to start her family earlier than she had planned. Steve Beech reports.

Watch the BBC news report here.

What time is it?

1. Sundial clock



2. Water clock

How many different kinds of clocks are you familiar with? How have human beings measured time? Why is timekeeping so important for people? What do you know about Daylight Saving Time? What are Time Zones?

You may have asked yourself these questions, but you may not have had the opportunity to find the answers.

Now is your chance to do that. It's time to learn about Time.

Choose one of the following tasks, do it, and share your thoughts with the readers of this blog.

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Daylight Saving Time?

Check the following two sites:

a) Daylight savings time

b) Daylight saving time ( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

Open a new Word page, create a two-colmun table and fill each column with the advantages and disadvantages of Daylight Saving Time.

Finally, Click on the "comment" word under this post, choose the most important advantage and the most important disadvantge, copy and paste them into the comment box that opened up, and explain why you have chosen them as the most important ones.

2. "Google" the word clock to find pictures of different kinds of clocks. Choose the two different types of clocks you like best, describe them and explain why you like them. Write the link to the site where each of these clocks appear so that your readers can see them.

How Time Works

"Time is something that most of us take for granted. Have you ever thought about why, for example, there are 12 months in a year? Why are there 30 days in September? Why are there time zones and what's with daylight-saving time? Why are there 86,400 seconds in a day? ..."

Read the article by Marshall Brain and then tell us what you have learned and what you think about it.

You may want to answer the following question: How does time work?

Winter Blues

I woul like to beat the Winter Blues, but i don't know how. Please, I need your help. Why don't you google the seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and winter blues, and then tell me what to do?
I am looking forward to your answers!

There's a time

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3

The following items deal with this subject.

First, sit back, look, listen and enjoy, and then answer the questions that follow.

1. There's a time - You tube


From: willsendvideo

2. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)

Get this widget Track details eSnips Social DNA

Added to mine by qfpinto on Sep. 29 2007

3. Slide Share - Time

From: chucho1943

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Answer the following questions. Explain your answers.

1. How are these three items similar and how are they different?

2.Which of the three is the best? Why do you think so? Give and justify your opinion.

Open Question

I'm a night person, how do I become a day person?

I have a child and a house to take care of but I have always been a night person. I need to have all the energy I feel at night, during the day. How do I do that?

I wake up around 7 or 8 and go to bed around 10 or 11 but I feel lazy during the day.

At night around 5 or 6 I start feeling like I am wide awake and can clean my house and play with my daughter and am alot happier.

How do I reverse it? Please anything you know can help.

I want to feel how I do at night during the day.

PLEASE HELP!

Laura Lane, Seattle, USA

What's in a name? Quiz

Here's a quiz that appears on a American Website. We certainly need one in English about Israeli names.

How about trying to answer the questions on the quiz? You can also write a few lines to comment on the game.

Wouldn't you like to find out if there actually is a quiz on Israeli names in English? Let us know if you find one (or more). I will add the link(s).

Well...While you are at it, why don't you write a quiz on Israeli names in English? I will gladly post it here or in our school's website?

I'm looking forward to reading your comments here.

Stereotypes with names

Provided By: kevjumba

This is kevjumba's introduction to this video clip:


"This is another funny blog about race, but this time its specifically about names. Each race has its own type of names given at birth so my friend and i decided to talk about them. We understand that not all the names we named make sense haha but i think the viewers will understanding what were going for. oh and if you're wondering, i'm chinese and i live in a very diverse part of the United States.
hope you guys enjoy and if you find it funny, please leave some comments"

(Since this blog is part of our EFL class, let me ask an annoying question first:

Have you noticed any grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc mistakes? Tell us in class. Oh! I'm sorry... We EFL teachers tend to ask these (and other) questions. Kevjumba has posted a video on this, too. No harm intended, Kevjumba)

And now, let's get some work done here:

I. Read some of the the comments and responses on the youtube site.

II. Answer: Which comment (if any) do you identify with?

III. Add your own comment here and, if you want to, on the you tube site too.

Incidentally, we will let these two guys know that we have discussed their video clip both here and in class and invite them to comment and respond (they might choose to do so)

IV. Kevjumba

a. Learn more about kevjumba

b Watch one or more of his videos. Write a response & comment here

c. Check the number of viewers kevjumba has had. What do you think about that? Why has he got such numbers? Write a response & comment here.

V. The clip.

a. Why do you think it is important for these two guys to talk about names the way they do?

b. Does the clip raise any new questions? If yes, which one (s)? Would you care to answer it / them?

c.. How is this video clip relevant to what we are studying?

Names and personality

What is the connection between your name and your personality?

Read this article and then post your comment.




















Eduardo