2024 is a leap year. What exactly is a leap year?
Assignment 1
a Write down the names of the months. (Don’t forget: Month names always start with a capital letter (hoofdletter).)
b For each month, write down how many days it has.
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Assignment 2
Find the words in the text. Connect the words and expressions that have the same meaning.
| 1. leap | a. about, around |
| 2. approximately | b. belonging to the sun |
| 3. to orbit | c. imaginary straight line that something (such as the earth) turns around |
| 4. solar | d. jump |
| 5. partial | e. to lower a number to the nearest whole or round (afgerond) number |
| 6. rotation | f. normal |
| 7. axis | g. only a part of |
| 8. to round down | h. remaining, extra |
| 9. leftover | i. taken away |
| 10. subtracted | j. to slowly become a large number or amount |
| 11. (to) add up | k. to travel around |
| 12. regular | l. turning-around movement |
Assignment 3
a What Is a Leap Year?
1 A year that has 366 days.
2 A year that has an extra month.
3 A year that skips some days.
4 A year with 365.25 days.
b What is a solar year?
1 A year with more sunny days than rainy days.
2 The amount of days it takes for the sun to travel around the earth.
3 The time Mars needs to travel around the sun once.
4 The total time the earth needs to travel around the sun once.
c What is a “sol”?
1 One day in the solar system.
2 One day on earth.
3 One day on Mars.
4 One day on the sun.
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