Unit 23
Time Zones
職場攻略/辦公日常
English for the workplace/Communication in workplace
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
What do you know about time zones?
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. Eastern Standard Time (n.) 東部標準時間
New York is on Eastern Standard Time.
紐約是東部標準時間。
2. behind (adv.) 背後;後面
You are two hours behind me.
你比我落後兩個小時。
3. daylight saving (n.) 夏令時
Daylight saving time is good for business.
夏令時對企業有利。
4. stay up (phr.) 熬夜
Jill will not stay up late tonight.
吉爾今晚不會熬夜。
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
Ben, thanks for taking the time to do the call today.
Ben，謝謝你今天花時間打電話。
I’m glad to do it.
我很高興這樣做。
What time is it there in New York?
紐約現在是什麼時間？
It’s 10 pm.
現在是晚上10點。
Oh, I thought it would be 9 pm. You use Eastern Standard Time, right? Aren’t you 12 hours behind me?
哦，我以為是晚上9點。你使用東部標準時間， 對嗎？你不是比我晚 12 個小時嗎？
Yes. But we started daylight saving a week ago. So I am 11 hours behind you now.
是的。但我們一周前就開始夏令時了所以我現在比你晚了11個小時
I’m sorry you had to stay up late.
真的很抱歉, 讓你這麼晚熬夜
No problem.
沒關係。
Let's Practice
Make it right.
A : _________.
B :I’m glad to do it.
1. Ben, thanks for taking the time to do the call today.
2. Ben, thanks for taking the time to do the calling today.
A : What time is it there in New York?
B : ________.
1.It’s 10 pm.
2.It’s 10.
What time is it ______ in New York?
1.their
2.there
We started daylight saving a week ______.
1.ago
2.past
York? New What time is it in there
_________________________________
I’m late sorry up stay had to you
________________________________________________
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.What country do you like to visit someday, whose time zone is different from yours? Why do you want to go there?
