Practical tasks Vocabulary and Listening

Practical tasks
Vocabulary and Listening.
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have a dream fall asleep wake up snore
get (back) to sleep be fast asleep be wide awake
have insomnia not sleep a wink have nightmares
be a light/heavy sleeper take a nap doze off
have a lie-in talk in your sleep
1 Tick the words/phrases you know. Then check new words/phrases.

▲2a) Choose six words/phrases from 1 that are connected to you, or people you know.

▲b) Work in groups. Take turns to talk about the words/phrases you chose. Ask follow – up questions if possible.
▲3a) Work in pairs. Look at these sentences about sleep. Choose the correct words/phrases.

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  Tiredness causes more/less than 50% of all road accidents in the USA.
  
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  10%/30% of people in the UK have problems getting to sleep or staying asleep.
  
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  Nowadays people are sleeping half an hour/one and a half hours less than they did 100 years ago.
  
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  Teenagers need more/less sleep than adults.
  
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  We use less/the same amount of energy when we’re asleep compared to when we’re resting.
  
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  A thirty – minute nap at work can improve people’s performance for an hour/ a few hours.
  

▲ b) R2.6 Listen to a TV interview with a sleep scientist. Check your answers to 3a).
▲c) Listen again. Answer these questions.

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  How many British people have serious insomnia?
  
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  How were sleeping habits different 100years ago?
  
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  Who needs the last amount of sleep?
  
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  What do our brains do when we’re asleep?
  
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  What is a siesta salon?
  

Help with Listening Weak forms(1)
♦ In sentences we say many small words with a schwa/ə/ sound. These are called weak forms.
▲ 4a) R2.6 Listen and check: Are weak forms ever stressed?
▲b) Look at R2.6. Listen to the interview again. Notice the weak forms and sentence stress.