Презентация по английскому языку по теме Time

Time.

What do we know about the Time?

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.     

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.     

William Penn

Dominico Cieri Estrada

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.     

Carl Sandburg

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.     

Theophrastus

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.     

Dion Boucicault

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.     

Baltasar Gracian

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?     

Paracelsus

Time is a unique physical quantity. We can't solve its mystery in any way, and we only managed to give names to its segments. It, being the oldest quantity in the universe, is teeming with riddles and facts. And what do we know?

Fact 1. Direction. Time is one of the few physical constants that has only one direction. It can't go backwards, accelerate or slow down. Time is also one-dimensional, and always goes in order.

Fact 2. Slowing down. But what about the property of human perception, when in extreme situations it seems that time slows down? In fact, there is no slowdown, just our brain begins to process information faster.

Fact 3. Reference. The unit of reference time measurement is the second. Since time is an invisible quantity, the instruments that measure it are very complex. Now, the unit of measurement for a second is the atomic second.

Fact 4. Meridian. The whole concept of time is perhaps best understood at the 180th Meridian. This is where the line of change of direction is located. Moving along it, you can go from today to yesterday.

Fact 5. Watches. Have you ever wondered, why the clock hands go from left to right? And it's all about the prototype-a sundial, in which the hand moved in the same way.

Fact 6. Daytime. It is common to measure a day in a 24-hour interval all over the world. But there are exceptions. In Thailand, along with the world standard, the day is divided into quarters of 6 hours.

Fact 7. Accuracy. As mentioned above, the standard of a second is the atomic second. It is measured by an atomic clock. They are so accurate that they have an error of 1 second over 6 million years.

Interesting Facts about Time

and Hours for the curious

1. The lifetime of the Universe according to modern science is approximately 13.8 billion years.

2. The Earth is conditionally divided into time zones, and there are quite a lot of them and the location is often very bizarre.

3. The international date line runs in the Pacific ocean.

4 . In the Pacific ocean, many Islands are inhabited by people whose life passes "between dates". The date change line runs conventionally along the 180th Meridian in the Pacific ocean. When traveling through this line to the West, you get into your own future-a day ahead, in "tomorrow", when crossing to the East, you get into the past and again experience yesterday. But the present in this place almost does not exist. Except when traveling along the Meridian. This is probably the best place to understand the whole relativity of the concept of "time".

5 . Recently, watch owners have become interested not only in the time they determine, but also in how their body behaves during this time. There are various kinds of "smart watches", in fact mini-computers, which display various data, including those related to the physical condition of a person.

6 . The Clock goes clockwise-from left to right-because this is the direction in which the shadow of the sundial moves.

7 . There are units of time: Millennium, century, five-year plan, year, quarter, month, decade, week, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond, microsecond, nanosecond, picosecond, femtosecond, and so on.

8 . The shortest period of time that has a physical meaning is the so-called Planck time. This is the time it takes for a photon traveling at the speed of light to overcome the Planck length.

9 . It turns out that sometimes there are 61 seconds in a minute. This happens in some years on June 30 or December 31, when the international earth rotation service adds a "leap" second to the time. This is done so that the universal time more accurately corresponds to the solar time.

10. In the middle Ages, people used the term "moment“ to define time intervals. It was considered to be 1.5 minutes.

11. Until the early 20s of the XX century in Novosibirsk, time was calculated in two time zones at once (the left Bank belonged to the fifth time zone, the right — to the sixth), so that on the right Bank of the Ob,

the morning began an hour earlier.

12. Novosibirsk and Delhi are located almost at the same longitude, but the time difference in these cities is 1.5 hours. This is due to the fact that India has an unusual maternity time.

14. The Clock mechanism looks so impressive and elegant that sometimes its very appearance is the best decoration of the most accurate device for measuring time. The Bridgeport Mechanical Skeleton watch of the famous Swiss company Tissot has a "skeletonized", i.e. open, mechanism.

To look at it, just open the lid.

15. If you put the history of our planet in 24 hours, then the appearance of a person will take place at 23-59.

16 . It is known that on most watches where Roman numerals are used on the dial, the fourth hour is marked with the symbol IIII instead of IV. There is no exact answer to the question of who invented the wrong four and why. There is an assumption that the matter is in the design. With IV replaced by IIII, the first third of the dial uses only the number I, the second only I and V, and the third only I and X.

This makes the dial look neater and more orderly.

17. An Interesting fact about time is that no one knows why a year is divided into twelve months. This division does not correspond to the solar or lunar calendar. However, it is believed that this principle is based on the Babylonian system of counting.

18. Almost all progressive humanity (except the United States) does not use the designations AM (ante meridiem — before noon) and PM (post meridiem — after noon), as there is a lot of confusion.

19. Unified systems for calculating time and time zones appeared already in the industrial era, and in the former world, especially in the agricultural part of it, time counting was organized in its own way in each locality, based on the observed astronomical phenomena.

20. In extreme situations, time "slows down". This is because the brain processes information much faster. In addition, we remember extreme situations better than everyday ones, because our "overclocked" brain has time to notice and learn a lot more different details.

21 . In the Himalayas, the meandering borders of several States intersect. And each of them has its own time set for various reasons. You will have to change the clock while driving along the mountain range in the most unpredictable way.

22 . It all Starts at the Indo-Nepalese border-we jump 15 minutes ahead, then go back to India and in due time 15 minutes ago.

23 . The Next jump is 2.5 hours ahead at the border with China, but 2 hours will have to be returned when moving to Bhutan.

24 . Next, the clock is moved back again for 30 minutes at the same time as returning to the territory of India, and then forward for 60 minutes when moving to Myanmar.

25 . Three time zones meet on the border of Norway, Finland and Russia. There is a small village of Rayakoski just on the borders of these three countries. There are also three time zones. And when it's 10 am in Norway, it's already eleven in Finland, and it's noon in Russia.

26. A car traveling at an average speed of 96 kilometers per hour would take approximately 48 million years to reach the nearest star after the Sun, "Proxima Centauri".

27. The system of numbering the years before and after the birth of Christ (Anno Domini) appeared only in 525.

28. In Thailand, along with the 24-hour time tracking system, the local six — hour system is used. The local population divides the day into 4 six-hour periods

of 6 hours each.

29. The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are considered to be from JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) — a research center based at the University of Colorado, boulder. Over 5 billion years, this instrument will accumulate an error of only 1 second.

30. The size of the body and heart rate are Crucial factors in the perception of time for warm-blooded animals. Cats have a faster heart rate than humans, so time goes faster for them. Elephants have an average heart rate of 25 beats per minute, so from the human point of view, their time is slower.

31. In ancient geological times, the Earth revolved much faster. It is believed that during the formation of the moon, a day on Earth lasted 2-3 hours, and the Moon, which was much closer, flew around our planet in 5 hours.

32. Gradually, lunar gravity slowed down the rotation of the Earth, while the moon's orbital moment increased, the satellite accelerated, moved to a higher orbit, where its speed fell. This process continues to this day, and over the course of a century, the days increase by 1/500 of a second.

33. When crossing the Chinese-Afghan border, the traveler is forced to change the clock immediately to 3 hours and 30 minutes.

34. In Japan and China, it was the so called watches perfumes. Incense sticks smouldered in them instead of candles, and each hour could have its own fragrance. Threads were sometimes tied to the sticks, at the end of which a weight was attached. At the right moment, the thread would burn out, the weight would fall on the sounding plate, and the clock would strike.

35. On mount Athos, in the Greek monastic Republic, a clock is used, but midnight is considered the moment of sunset, and the clock is set every day at this moment.

36. Given that some monasteries are located higher in the mountains, while others are lower, and the Sun for them is hidden behind the horizon at different times, then midnight for them does not come at once.

37. John Henry Belleville, an employee of the famous Greenwich Observatory in London, came up with the idea in 1836 to sell time.

38. The Essence of his business was that Mr. Belleville checked his watch daily with the most accurate clock of the Observatory, and then drove around to clients and allowed them to set the exact time on their watches for money.

39. The Service was so popular that it was inherited by John's daughter, Ruth Belleville, who provided the service until 1940, 14 years after the BBC radio first broadcast accurate time signals.

40. 100 million years ago, at the height of the age of dinosaurs, the duration of the day was approximately 23 hours.

41. The Martian day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35,244 seconds. According to this indicator, the planet is similar to Earth.

42. Calendars in various ancient civilizations were developed not only for practical purposes, but also in close connection with religious and mythological views. Because of this, the calendar systems of the past featured units of time that far exceeded the duration of human life and even the duration of the existence of these civilizations themselves.

43. The Mayan calendar included such units of time as "Baktun", which was 409 years, as well as epochs of 13 Baktuns (5125 years).

44. The ancient Hindus went the Farthest — their sacred texts show the period of universal activity of Maha Manvantara, which is 311.04 trillion years.

45 . Recently, watch owners have become interested not only in the time they determine, but also in how their body behaves during this time. There are various kinds of "smart watches", in fact mini-computers, on the displays of which are displayed

46. The Territory of China is located in five different time zones, but the whole country lives according to the same time (Beijing) - this decision was made in 1949 by Mao Zedong. That is why now in China you can observe a funny situation when in some regions of the country the sun sets at midnight.

47. The Force of gravity slows down the passage of time. In a deep mine, where the Earth's gravity is stronger, time passes more slowly than on the surface. And at the top of mount Everest — faster.

48. The Effect of gravitational deceleration was predicted by albert Einstein in 1907 in the framework of the General theory of relativity. We had to wait for experimental confirmation of the effect for more than half a century, until equipment appeared that could detect ultra-small changes over time.

49. Today, the most accurate atomic clocks record the effect of gravitational deceleration when the height changes by several tens of centimeters.

50. Distance per day between Ratmanov Island (Russia) and Krusenstern (USA). These two Islands are only 4 kilometers away.

By boat, this sea space can be overcome in just 15-20 minutes, but this is only theoretically, but in practice you can get a day ahead or back, because according to Greenwich the difference

between the Islands is 21 hours.

Importance of Time

The best proverb on time is “Time and tide wait for none.”

It is better says by someone. Everyone should understand the value and importance of the time.

Time is Invaluable

Time is more valuable compared than money. Time is precious partly for the reason that we are all only allotted a certain amount of time in our lives, and so we need to make sure that we use it wisely. Nothing can stop the flow of time. Time once past cannot be brought back by any means.

• Highlights Into a Timely Manner

Everyone has to realize the value of time and spend it unwisely. Such people waste their time and keep unnecessary thinking can backward to them and lost their future. Everyone has to do focus on their important task every day.

Everyone should realize that many of the future troubles can avoid by taking prompt action promptly. The famous proverb, “a stitch in time saves nine” also highlights the importance of sorting out a problem at an early age.

Future Unseen

Though the future is unseen, man can work hard today to increase the probability of a better tomorrow. People should use their time properly.  We should try our best to avoid the habit of indolence and begin to do our jobs on time. It will surely brighten our future.

It is true that nobody can accurately forecast the future. Many things are beyond the control of human beings. The economy and the financial situation of countries are fast changing.

Conclusion

Everyone should have this ability to take granted all thing on time for a better future, and it will become more efficient.

The more efficiently we act, the more time we will have leftover for future projects. If we look all around important events of history, then we will see that all successful people of history made the best use of time. The prosperous people of the world are very conscious of the value of time. Hence, we should never waste our time and try to make the best use of it.