Basic Needs

['2u4] -s[-z] Everyday Expressions n. William works 45 hours per week. n. I heard the clock strike the hour. n. At what hour should we leave? n. (pl.) business hours

hourly

hourglass hour-hand

Linguistic Skill

Useful Phrases --- school hours --- business hours / --- office hours --- rush hour --- to keep early, late, regular hours

Idioms & Slang after hours --- at all hours --- at the eleventh hour ---

Communicating Clearly

Street Talks He stays up till the small hours. We need to stay behind after hours to catch up on our work. He keeps early hours. Elizabeth likes to call me at all hours of the day or night. This tower clock strikes the hours. Professor Millers visit was called off at the eleventh hour. There wont be many people there at this hour. Im paid by the hour.

Cultural Focus

Transcripts

We expect to make our four hour and eighteen minute flight on schedule. Give me an hour.

Linus: Itll take me half an hour to get out of here. Ive got to check on the Tokyo market before it closes. Goodnight. Man: Goodnight

Proverbs An hour may destroy what was an age in building. The darkest hour comes before dawn.

Quotations I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773), English statesman, man of letters. Letter, 6 Nov. 1747 (first published 1774; repr. in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol. 1, no. 131, ed. by Charles Strachey, 1901).