Vocabulary

Academic Word List

  • affect
  • alter
  • apparently
  • approximately
  • aspect
  • benefit
  • conducted
  • cycle
  • definite
  • eventually
  • experts
  • function
  • individual
  • initial
  • interaction
  • investigate
  • involved
  • isolated
  • maximize
  • normal
  • obviously
  • occur
  • overall
  • participate
  • period
  • phases
  • previously
  • recreate
  • regulation
  • research
  • schedule
  • theory
  • traditional
  • ultimately

Other Vocabulary

  • accomplish
  • appetite
  • detriments
  • drastically
  • hormone
  • inventor
  • strict
  • supposedly

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercises 1 and 2.


Pre-Listening

Use the questions to begin a discussion. Try to be sure everyone in your group gives their opinion and explains why they hold that opinion before moving on to the next question. Type in your group's main ideas to use afterwards for class discussion.

  1. Would you sacrifice some of your sleep if there were something else important to do? Give an example.
  2. What happens to you if you don't get the sleep you want? Does something change in your personality or behaviour?

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 3.


Listening

Listen to first paragraph of a larger Listening, which is only an Introduction to the topic. In your group, discuss how this relates to this unit's topic and predict what you believe the rest of the Listening will be about and some of the topics that might be discussed.

Exercise

Please click the Exercise link to continue and do Exercise 4.


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