Sunday, April 16, 2017

Day 1 (D-60) Let's go

Easter Day.  As promised, it's the day we begin our computer trip to Wyoming.  Let's get started.
  
We'll be getting up bright and early on June 16th with a long journey ahead of us.  Grenoble, France to Denver, Colorado.  That's a flight distance of over 8000 km.  Or should we start thinking in miles?  More than 5000 miles!  


And there is an 8-hour time difference.  We say that Denver is 8 hours behind Grenoble or Grenoble is 8 hours ______________ Denver. We'll leave Grenoble at 6:15 in the morning and we are scheduled to arrive in Denver at 7:14 in the evening.   What time will that in fact be for us?  We will be traveling for 21 hours, counting stopovers
A long day to get here, Colorado USA:


My best,
Jane
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Not too much information today.  But there is vocabulary and cultural differences to point out.

--get up bright and early  =  get up at the break of day =  get up at the crack of dawn

-- journey, trip, travel  = three words that are difficult.  
Look here and take the quiz. 
https://www.espressoenglish.net/difference-between-travel-trip-and-journey/


-- over = "more than" in this context

--Did you find the opposite of "behind" for time differences?  It's NOT "in front of".  Ask your teacher...or ask Jane.

-- stopovers  =  http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/stopover 

--to get = In this sentence, get means "to arrive."  So many meanings for this short but difficult word! 

---We'll look at miles/kilometers and expressing the hour of day later.  For now, just take notice of how Americans express distance and time.

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