Daylight Saving Time

Lesson overview

Benjamin Franklin first floated the idea in 1784, half-joking that people should just get up earlier and save on candles. Two centuries later, roughly 40% of the world still springs forward and falls back every year, though Hawaii and parts of Arizona never bother. This Daylight Saving Time esl lesson uses that real history to build vocabulary around energy and time zones, then gets students into a genuinely current DST debate: does changing the clocks still make any real sense today?