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Contents…
1) Sab’s Introduction 😊 👋
➜ Read my latest news & learn new vocabulary
Hello Fun English Fans, and welcome to the last FunLetter in March!
The clocks ‘went forward’ this weekend in France. In other words, when you wake up on Sunday morning and the clock says that it is 9 a.m., it is really now 10 a.m. This is not always a nice surprise! You ‘lose’ an hour of your day.
Of course, in the autumn, the clocks ‘go back’. So, when you wake up on Sunday and the clock says it is 9 a.m., it is now only 8 a.m. and you can stay in bed an hour more. That’s not so bad!
In English, we have an expression to help us remember this. We say ‘spring forward, fall back’. Spring can mean ‘jump’ and it is also the season between winter and summer when the plants start to grow again. So, in the spring, the clocks ‘jump forward’ one hour.
In American English, they use fall to mean autumn, the season between summer and winter. Often, when we fall, we fall backward, so, in the autumn, the clocks ‘fall back’ one hour.
But why do we ‘change the clocks’ anyway? In summer, the days are longer, and the sun rises early in the morning. Many people are still in bed for an hour or more after sunrise. This was considered a waste of daylight.
So, we put the clocks forward and start our days an hour earlier to make use of this early daylight.
This also means that the sun sets later in the evenings. “The evenings are lighter later!” Children can go home from school safely in daylight and companies don’t need to use electricity to light their offices before people go home from work.
In effect, we ‘borrow’ the first wasted hour of daylight from the morning when we are still in bed, and ‘lend’ it to the evening when we are still awake.
And that’s the story of Daylight Saving Time (DST) or British Summertime (BST) as we call it in the UK!
Have a bright day, everybody! 🌅
Share your ideas on Daylight Saving Time, written or recorded in a video, in our friendly Facebook Group here.
Quick Quiz 
When do the clocks change in Britain and Europe at the moment?
a) At the beginning of March and the end of October
b) At the end of April and the beginning of October
c) At the end of March and the end of October
*INTERESTING VOCABULARY
spring (noun) – the season between winter and summer, when the weather becomes warmer and the plants start to grow again
spring (verb) – to jump or move somewhere suddenly
fall (US) / autumn (UK) (noun) – the season of the year between summer and winter, when leaves fall from the trees
fall (verb) – to move down towards the ground without intending to
forward (adverb) – towards the direction that is in front of you
backward (adverb) – towards the direction that is behind you
sunrise (noun) – the time when the sun appears in the morning and the sky becomes light
sunset (noun) – the time when the sun disappears in the evening and the sky becomes dark
waste (verb) – to use too much of something or use something badly when there is a limited amount of it
save (verb) – to keep something to use in the future
borrow (verb) – to use something that belongs to someone else and give it back later
lend (verb) – to give something to someone for a period of time, expecting that they will then give it back to you
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The oldest ones date from the 1300s
They are used in several styles of dancing
They are made of wood
Some people hang them on the wall as decorations
Workers used them to protect their feet
They originated in the Netherlands
clogs
shoes made from wood, or shoes with a wooden sole (= bottom part)
3) Adventures in Language 😄 🗯
➜ Learn interesting idioms, metaphors, proverbs, expressions and oddities
One Mouse , Two Mice; One House, Two… Hice?
Plurals in English are pretty simple, aren’t they? You just add an ‘s’ to the noun, don’t you?
One pig 🐷 – two pigs 🐖 🐖;
one cow 🐮 – three cows 🐄 🐄 🐄.
You get the idea. Easy. Umm… except when it isn’t!
This poem gives you an idea of just how crazy English plurals can be…
NOW: Guess the plural and click to see if you are right!
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6 people
4 geese
2 children
2 fish (OR fishes)
2 cacti OR cactuses
2 cats & 3 dogs!
~ Regular plurals! ~
2 feet
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2 mice
2 women
3 sheep
3 men
2 oases
2 hippopotami OR hippopotamuses
6 teeth
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4) Quick 1-QUESTION Quiz 🤔 📝
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Hear the question and the answer:
This is _____ in Paris, also called ______.
a) midday ~ sunrise
b) sunset ~ dusk
c) dawn ~ sunshine
This is sunset in Paris, also called dusk.
5) Words in the News 🤓 📰
➜ Learn current vocabulary from interesting news stories
From BBC News: Europe
Italian art experts astonished by David statue uproar in Florida
The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo’s statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson.
The school’s principal quit after a complaint about a sixth-grade art class that included an image of the statue.
A parent had complained the image was pornographic.
Cecilie Hollberg, director of Galleria dell’Accademia, has now issued the invitation to the class.
She said the principal should be “rewarded, not punished“.
The incident has left Florentines and experts on Renaissance art bewildered.
Ms Hollberg said she was “astonished“, stating that to think that the David statue could be considered pornographic means not only failing to understand the Bible, but Western culture itself.
“I cannot believe that actually happened. At first I thought it was fake news, so improbable and absurd was it,” she said.
USEFUL DEFINITIONS
astonished (adjective) – very surprised
uproar (noun) – a situation in which many people complain about something angrily
pornography (noun) – magazines and films showing naked people or sexual acts that are intended to make people feel sexually excited
reward (verb) – to give something good to someone because they have worked hard or behaved well
punish (verb) – to make someone suffer because they have done something bad
bewildered (adjective) – very confused and not sure what to do
fake news (noun) – false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke
absurd (adjective) – stupid and unreasonable, or silly in a humorous way
6) Photo of the Week 🧐 
➜ Practise describing a photo in detail
One of my passions is taking photos and writing about Paris in France and the Lake District in Britain every day.
Here is this week’s photo:
EXERCISE
Write about this photo or record yourself speaking about it in English.
What can you see?
Where do you think it is?
What time or season is it?
What is the weather like?
Can you see any people or animals?
What are they doing?
What are they wearing?
How do they feel?
Do you like the photo? Why or why not?
Would you like to be in the photo?
Where would you prefer to be?
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Quick Quiz – Answer
In the UK and Europe, the clocks change:
c) At the end of March and the end of October
I love it when I have an extra hour in bed in the autumn but I hate it when I lose an hour in the spring. What about you?
(P.S. I made a mistake in the video – I said the opposite! 😬)
Let’s make the English love go round!
