Billionaire boy

Pre-reading

Have you ever dreamt of being very rich? What would you do?

 

Reading (excerpt from Wikipedia)

Billionaire Boy is a children's fiction book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It was published on 28 October 2010^[1] by HarperCollins. The story follows Joe Spud, who is the richest boy in the country and has everything he could ever want, but wishes to have a friend and learns a lesson on what it's like to be a normal boy. The book was adapted for BBC Television, broadcast on 1 January 2016. 

The story is about a 12-year-old billionaire, Joe Spud, who lives with his billionaire dad, who made money out of revolutionary Bumfresh toilet paper. The Spuds live in a very large country home. The two of them have everything they could ever want, such as an orang-utan butler, a bowling alley, a cinema, and servants. Nevertheless, Joe is depressed and unhappy when he doesn't have any friends. He leaves a wealthy children's school to join a local comprehensive. There he meets 12-year-old, Bob, with whom he becomes friends. 

Some characters

Joe Spud: The main character in the story. He is the son of a multi-billionaire. His best friend is Bob.He was bullied at his last school because his father made his fortune by making loo rolls, he is very socially awkward. 

Bob: Joe's best friend. His dad died of cancer and his family is poor. The Grubbs bully him and is made fun of by the rest of the class for being fat.

The Grubbs: The Grubbs are twins who are the school bullies. One of them is Dave and another is Sue, even though they have all the same features. 

Leonard Spud: The multi-billionaire who is the founder of Bumfresh. He is divorced and is 46 years old.

Sapphire Stone: It is revealed that she was only dating Mr. Spud because of his wealth. She later dated the entirety of a Premier League football team. She is 19 years old and has blonde hair. She is not very intelligent. 

Lauren: She is 13 years old. She is Joe's love interest and is remarkably pretty.  

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After reading

Have you already read this book? Do you know the name in Spanish? Did you like the book? If you haven't read the book would you like to read it? Why?

Scrabbulary

 

Time zones

 

New words: 

Purposes propósitos         boundaries fronteras    offset compensación

 

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.

Each time zone is defined by a standard offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Some examples of time zones are:

UTC+0 United Kingdom, Portugal, the Canary Islands

UTC +1 central Europe Spain, France, Germany, Italy

UTC +2 Greece, Romania

The United States use 6 different time zones. The most well known are:

Chicago UTC-6 (Central Standard time)

New York UTC-5 (Easter Standard Time)

Los Angeles UTC-8 (Pacific Standard Time)

Conversion between time zones obeys the relationship

"time in zone A" − "UTC offset for zone A" = "time in zone B" − "UTC offset for zone B",

in which each side of the equation is equivalent to UTC.

The conversion equation can be rearranged to

"time in zone B" = "time in zone A" − "UTC offset for zone A" + "UTC offset for zone B".

For example, the New York Stock Exchange opens at 09:30 (EST, UTC offset= −05:00). In California (PST, UTC offset= −08:00) and India (IST, UTC offset= +05:30), the New York Stock Exchange opens at

time in California = 09:30 − (−05:00) + (−08:00) = 06:30;

 

The time differences may also result in different dates. For example, when it is 22:00 on Monday in Egypt (UTC+02:00), it is 01:00 on Tuesday in Pakistan (UTC+05:00).

Daylight saving time

Many countries, and sometimes just certain regions of countries, adopt daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, during part of the year. This typically involves advancing clocks by an hour near the start of spring and adjusting back in autumn ("spring forward", "fall back"). Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 and was in widespread use in 1916 as a wartime measure aimed at conserving coal. Despite controversy, many countries have used it off and on since then; details vary by location and change occasionally. Countries around the equator usually do not observe daylight saving time, since the seasonal difference in sunlight there is minimal.

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