Listening Comprehension - Listen and repeat

“Well, we’re midway through October now and we’re heading towards the point when the clocks change – that’s in the UK anyway. We will move on 24th/25th October back to GMT or Greenwich Mean Time. We’ve been an hour ahead on BST or British Summer Time since last March and moving the clocks back to GMT will make it dark earlier in the evening and light earlier in the morning.

So, this is known as ‘Daylight Saving Time’ in the US and around the world – and many countries do something similar, to try to maximize the number of hours of useable daylight. This also means that you ‘make savings’ by not having your electric lights on for as long. My brain used to have trouble with the clock change, but now I do remember it as the October time change is the nice one, where you get an extra hour, possibly even an extra hour in bed.”



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