Worksheet 04

The Time

I. ¿Cómo se dice la hora en español? ¿Has escuchado diferentes formas de decir la hora
para un mismo momento?

II. Listen and practice the times. ACE CD 1, trk 68

III. Listen and draw the times on the clock face / write the times ACE , trck 69

a. 7 f. 6:45
b. 10 g.8;45
c. 11 h. 9:45
d. 6:15 i. 1:30
e. 5:45 j. 12:30
IV. Answer these questions.

1. What time does school open?

2. What time does the evening school shift (turno) start?

3. What time does it end?

4. What time does the English class start?

5. What time does it end?

6. What time do banks open?

7. What time do they close?

V. Put in order the days of the week.

Friday Monday Saturday Sunday Thursday Tuesday Wednesday

VII. Do you know the origin of the names of the week in Spanish? In English?

VIII. Read the text “Keeping Time: Origins of the Days of the Week”. Write the name of the
day to the corresponding origin

Keeping Time: Origins of the Days of the Week

The English words for each day bear remnants of Roman tradition, but they have been
filtered through centuries of Germanic and Norse mythos. The Germanic people adapted the
Roman system by identifying Roman gods with their own deities.

_Monday ____ comes from Old English “Mōnandæg,” named after Máni, the Norse
personification of the moon (and Sól's brother).
____Sunday_ comes from Old English “Sunnandæg," which is derived from a Germanic
interpretation of the Latin dies solis, "Sun's day." Germanic and Norse mythology
personify the sun as a goddess named Sunna or Sól.
___Thursday__ comes from Old English “Tīwesdæg,” after Tiw, or Tyr, a one-handed Norse
god of dueling. He is equated with Mars, the Roman war god.
_Saturday ____ Germanic and Norse traditions didn’t assign any of their gods to this day of
the week. They retained the Roman name instead. The English word “Saturday”
comes from the Anglo-Saxon word “Sæturnesdæg,” which translates to “Saturn’s
day.”
_Friday____ is named after the wife of Odin. Some scholars say her name was Frigg; others
say it was Freya; other scholars say Frigg and Freya were two separate goddesses.
Whatever her name, she was often associated with Venus, the Roman goddess of
love, beauty and fertility. “Friday” comes from Old English “Frīgedæg.”
___Wednesday__ is "Wōden's day." Wōden, or Odin, was the ruler of the Norse gods' realm
and associated with wisdom, magic, victory and death. The Romans connected
Wōden to Mercury because they were both guides of souls after death. “Wednesday”
comes from Old English “Wōdnesdæg.”
__Thursday___, "Thor's day," gets its English name after the hammer-wielding Norse god of
thunder, strength and protection. The Roman god Jupiter, as well as being the king of
gods, was the god of the sky and thunder. “Thursday” comes from Old English
“Þūnresdæg.”