A printable worksheet for news-based English conversation classes.
Date: 2023/03/02
Difficulty: Elementary A2
PDF: Taiwan considers changes to public holiday calendar
YouTube: Taiwan considers changes to public holiday calendar
economy - | - government work | |
leaders - | - money system | |
politics - | - choice | |
decision - | - people in charge | |
current - | - now |
Taiwan is thinking about changing the holidays that people get. They want to make sure everyone gets enough time off work, but they also want to make sure the economy doesn't get hurt.
The current rule is that if there's a holiday on Tuesday or Thursday, Monday or Friday also becomes a holiday. This gives people a long weekend. However, people need to work on a Saturday at a later date to make up for it. This means people sometimes have to do a six-day work week.
This year, there have been too many six-day work weeks, and people are not happy about it. So, Taiwan's leaders are thinking about changing the calendar.
They might not give everyone long weekends for some holidays or they might add new holidays instead.
Lots of politicians have different ideas about which days should be holidays. The leaders will talk to everyone and then make a final decision.
A: | I'm so overworked, I need a holiday. Maybe I should move to Taiwan. |
B: | Taiwan? Why Taiwan? |
A: | Well, they're thinking about changing their holiday rules to give people more time off work. |
B: | That sounds nice. But do you speak Chinese? |
A: | No, but I can learn. What are you going to do on your holiday? |
B: | I'm just going to look at pictures of Switzerland on Instagram. |
economy → money system |
leaders → people in charge |
politics → government work |
decision → choice |
current → now |