Unit 5 It’s good for you

Lesson 4 Food for the brain

Speak and listen

1. Take a class survey about how many hours you sleep.

    Example:

    Teacher: How many hours do you sleep a day?

    Student: I sleep 8 hours every night.

2. Listen to four speakers in a radio report about sleep.

Teacher: A lot of my students find it difficult to stay awake in class because they don’t sleep at night. They’re tired when they come to school, so they can’t learn. They need more sleep.

Teenager: My school starts at 7.45. I take the bus, so I get up at 6.15. I go to bed late, and it’s hard to get up in the morning. But I hate going to bed early. I don’t feel tired then.

Dad: My son goes to bed really late. He’s always busy with things. I tell him that he doesn’t sleep enough, you eat more, you don’t feel well, and you feel unhappy and stressed. But he doesn’t listen to me.

Doctor:       Your body and sleeping times change when you’re a teenager. This means teenagers prefer going to bed much later, usually after 11 p.m. Then they’re tired because most schools start early. But teenagers need eight and a half to nine hours of sleep every night or they can’t lead a healthy life. As I tell my patients: sleep is food for the brain.

3. Comprehension check.
4. Why do students find it difficult to stay awake in class?
5. How do they feel when they come to school?
6. What time does the teenager’s school start?
7. How do feel when you don’t have enough sleep?
8. How many hours of sleep do teenagers need?
9. How did the doctor comment about sleep?
10. Choose the best answer.

React

5. Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
6. Student A: Do you sleep enough?

    Student B: ____________________________.

2. Student A: How many hours do you sleep every night?

           Student B: ____________________________.

Work with words            Lifestyle

6. Match the words to the quotes.
7. I have a lot of energy and interests.                              a. tired
8. My body’s healthy, and I get a lot of exercise.            b. lucky
9. I need to sleep now.                                                         c. busy
10. I have a lot of things to do.                                             d. active
11. Good things always happen to me.                               e. healthy
12. I don’t feel happy.                                                             f. sick
13. I feel bad because I have a lot of things to do. g. lazy
14. I feel good. h. stressed
15. I have a health problem. i. unhappy
16. I never want to do anything. j. well
17. Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
18. Do you feel healthy and well?
19. Are you often tired?
20. Are you stressed?