Sleeping like a log

Sleeping is essential in our lives and for our health. You may have some sleep disorders when you've got exams the next day, when you've got a problem to solve... or just because you are getting old. Yes, because babies usually are an example of good sleepers.

 

However, now young people are having more and more problems with sleep. Why??? And this is obviously affecting their success in life.

This post is connected with this Selectivity exam:

2019 - OPTION A: ELDERLY SPANISH COUPLE SLEEP IN PARK AFTER BEING EVICTED & OPTION B: SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH 

 

By the way, do you remember the song by The Beatles A Hard Day's Night? Have a look at the lyrics.

 

Some interesting articles for you to read and videos to watch:

• Sleep problems mounting in children (BBC News)
  

• Sharp rise in hospital admissions for children with sleep disorders (The Guardian)

• Coronavirus lockdown caused sharp increase of insomnia in UK (The Guardian)
  

• Matthew Walker Teaches the Science of Better Sleep | Official Trailer | MasterClass (Learn how to sleep correctly)
  

• How To Improve Your Sleep | Matthew Walker

 

 

 

 

 

Mr Big: To Be With You - Live from the living room some years later (with lyrics) 

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Talking about HUMAN EMOTIONS  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

• Grammar practice: Verb patterns (BBC Learning English)

• English with Lucy:  MUCH or MANY or A LOT OF??? Countable and Uncountable Nouns!

 

Project about Jane Eyre by María Prados (2º Bach A)

 

 

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 210113 / 13 January 2021    >>>  Extreme E: The new electric motorsports series ( Learn English with Sir Lewis Hamilton ) -    Language related to 'power'.  Need-to-know language: horsepower, acceleration, generate, fuel cell & capable.

Night shoppers, the new trend

Another variable affecting our sleep!!!  Not long ago we were talking about having problems to fall asleep ( Sleep disorders ). Well, now it has been discovered that people even go shopping in the middle of the night!!!

Here's an interesting article to read a listening exercise to do about the issue:

Online shopping sees 30% rise between midnight and 6am, study says (The Guardian)

 

Here's a listening exercise to do: Are you a vampire shopper? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English).

 

 

 

And later you need a coffee break. Here's the coffee break proposed by Jonah Nilsson.

 

 

 

English with Lucy  >>>  Respond to "thank you" PROPERLY!

 

 

 

Tennis >>> Roger Federer, Not Novak Djokovic, Is the Golden Goose of Tennis' by John McEnroe, The Commissioner of Tennis

Sleep disorders

"I feel sleepy the whole day and I can't sleep well at night." This is something that we quite often hear these days. Why is that? Is it due to the spring time?  Am I getting old?

Here are some interesting articles about sleep disorders:

• Are you getting enough sleep? (BBC)

• Can’t sleep? Perhaps you’re overtired (The Guardian)

• I used to be tired all the time too. 'Segmented sleep' solved that (The Guardian)

• Welsh teens' lost sleep and no breakfast (BBC)

• A hard night's sleep (BBC)

TED TALK: What causes insomnia?  

 

And now let's do this listening exercise: What to do when you can't sleep (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English).

Click on this label: sleep deprivation  for further information on the topic.

The English We Speak: What does couch surfing mean?   (previous post:  Couchsurfing is no picnic  )  

 

Another interesting kind of accomodation, especially good for foreign students, is living with a host family (here's a good website to visit: HOMESTAY)

 

STOP SAYING "Congratulations" - Improve Your English Vocabulary!

 

 

 

David Ferrer Retirement Ceremony & Emotional Speech | Madrid 2019