How
About A New Calendar?
Vocabulary:
1.c / 2.e / 3.f / 4.a
/ 5.b / 6. d / 7.g
Tapescript
Four hundred and 30 years ago, Pope Gregory XIII gave the West a
calendar, which divided 365 days into what was to be called a year. With 12
months and seven days bundled into so-called weeks, the Gregorian calendar was
hailed as a marvel of medieval accuracy. We use it today, despite its
occasional messiness - drifting days, leap years and 28-day months. But now
some researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a different way to
count our days with a leap week every few years to keep the calendar on track.
Holidays, like Christmas and New Year's Day, would always fall on a Sunday. It
seems neat and streamlined for our modern age, except maybe to those of us who
work on Sundays.
The
Mayan Calendar
Part 1:
1. F / 2. T / 3. F (4000) / 4. T / 5. F (2)
/ 6. F
(52) / 7.T
Part 2:
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Numbers
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Sacred Year
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Vague Year
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Total days
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260
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365
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Months
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13
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18
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Days in a month
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20
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20
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Additional features
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1 additional month with 5 days
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A
Year’s Worth Of Idioms
1.coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb 2.a long day in January
3.bring May flowers 4.molasses in
January 5.in a month of Sundays
6.the flavour 7.by the 4th of
July 8.here till next Tuesday 9.a wet weekend
10.Sunday best 11.call it a
day 12.Monday morning quarterback
13.up to date 14.Monday morning
feeling 15.get a day off 16.red-letter day
17.dog days of summer 18.day in
day out 19.seen better days
20.nine days' wonder 21.Person
Friday 22.Sunday driver 23.days running
Ancient
& Modern Calendars
1.b / 2 a
& c / 3. a / 4. c
/ 5.a
/ 6. c / 7. c / 8. b / 9. b
The
Calendar Puzzle
Across: 2.Tuesday 7.May 10.Weekend 11.Leap 12.October 13.March
19.December 20.Quarter 22.November 25.January 26.Weekday 27.Saturday
Down: 1.July 3.Sunday 4.April 5.August 6.Week 7.Monday 8.September
9.Semester 14.Holiday 15.Term 16.Wednesday 17.Friday 18.February
21.June 23.Month 24.Thursday
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