K.+Sleep+&+Dream

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__**Research has discovered that: **__
 * Task 1: Warm Up **
 * Do you ever stay up all night? Why? **
 * Do you usually sleep in on the weekend? **
 * Are you a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? **

1. Most people dream in color. 2. Dreams are visual in nature. Taste, smell, and touch seem to be deactivated. 3. Dreams are more frequently disturbing and unpleasant rather than pleasant. 4. The most common setting for dreams is indoors rather than outdoors. 5. Dreams usually involve motion and action. 6. The length of dreams may vary but most are as long as daydreams. 7. We dream approximately 5 to 6 times per night during REM sleep. 8. Dreams do not occur exclusively during REM sleep. It is possible to dream during a short nap or at any time during the night.


 * What do you think? Do you agree? **


 * Task 2: Let's read and learn something more **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What //**springs to mind**// when you hear the word **‘sleep-texting’**?

<span style="background-color: #fbfbb1; color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">‘Sleep-texting’ is here and on the increase <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Twenty-first century technology is bringing with it twenty-first century disorders. The latest is ‘sleep-texting’ – sending SMS messages in your sleep. This is a new phenomenon identified by Australia’s Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre. Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, from the centre, said the condition is currently quite rare but has the potential to grow. He said he has seen many instances of sufferers sending incoherent text messages to their friends while asleep. Texters are reported to be completely unaware of their late-night messaging. One expert says the stresses of daily life causes people to text in their sleep. Another says young people are so attached to their mobile phones that sleep-texting is almost like sleepwalking. Dr Cunnington’s advice is to leave the mobile phone out of the bedroom to resist the urge to text. He said: “If your phone is on the nightstand, then it will be more difficult to have a good night's sleep without feeling compelled to reply to a message or check your Facebook account.” He added: “The key point is that people need to respect their sleep, and make an effort to switch off at night.” Cunnington explained that sleepemailing was a more serious problem, saying: “Emails can be sent to work colleagues and have much more serious consequences, whereas text messages are more likely to be accidentally sent to a friend or family member, so people aren't as likely to complain of a problem.”

<span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What do you think about what you read? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> What other twenty-first century problems can you think of? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Do you think this phenomenon could become widespread? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> What other problems are there with mobile phones? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> What do you think causes people to text in their sleep? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Are you worried you might text in your sleep? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> What kinds of things might people text while asleep? <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> How attached to your mobile phone are you?

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">SYNONYM MATCH: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Match the following synonyms from the article. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">1. disorders <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a. possibility <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">2 latest <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">b. important <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">3. potential <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">c. muddled <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">4. incoherent <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">d. forced <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">5. attached <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">e. most recent <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">6. urge <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">f. effects <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">7. compelled <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">g. protest <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">8. key <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">h. illnesses <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">9. consequences <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">i. glued <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">10. complain <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">j. temptation **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">PHRASE MATCH: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">1. twenty-first century <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">a. quite rare <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">2 This is a new <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">b. the urge <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">3. the condition is currently <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">c. to their mobile phones <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">4. sufferers sending incoherent <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">d. sent to a friend <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">5. young people are so attached <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">e. off at night <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">6. resist <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">f. disorders <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">7. have a good <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">g. to complain <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">8. make an effort to switch <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">h. phenomenon <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">9. more likely to be accidentally <span style="color: #070783; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">i. night's sleep <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10. aren't as likely j. text messages **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Task 3: Time for discussion ** __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sleep **__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you usually remember your dreams? Why or why not? Describe some of them.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What was your nicest dream that you can remember?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Talk about a recurring dream that you have had in the past.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you interpret a dream? Do you use your intuition/imagination to understand it? [[image:imagesCASTS1PV.jpg align="right"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you usually read books on dream interpretation? What is your opinion on it?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you generally have pleasant dreams or nightmares?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What's the worst nightmare you've ever had?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is "prophecy"?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Have you ever had or heard of a dream that foretold the future?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Did you know that Abraham Lincoln supposedly foresaw his own assassination in a dream? What do you think about it?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Have you ever dreamed about dead people? Is it a good signal? Why/Why not?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Are dream messages sent from our unconscious, predictions of the future, or the brain's way of cleaning out information?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Some people say that dreaming about losing money means that you will receive it. Have you ever heard this? What other sayings about dreams do you know?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do your dreams ever affect your moods? Explain.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What language do you dream in? Have you ever dreamt in a language that you don't speak?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Have you ever woken up from a dream "in a cold sweat"? [[image:imagesCAV49CQ0.jpg align="right"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Has anyone told you if you have walked or talked in your sleep?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">When you were a child, what was your dream for the future? Has it changed?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you tell people about your dreams?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is a daydream?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What is the difference between our daydreams and our dreams at night?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you agree with the idea that "Life is like a dream"?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you manage to sleep as much as you need? If not, why not?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Have you ever suffered from insomnia?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you suffer from insomnia? Are you a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What keeps you awake at night? (e.g. worrying too much about stuff, too much coffee, your partner's snoring, your neighbors' parties, an uncomfortable bed, a hot summer)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you use, or have you ever used, any special methods that help you get to sleep?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you snore?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you talk in your sleep?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you ever oversleep?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you ever sleep in? (Sleep late in the morning)


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Task 4: Take a look at related expressions **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Click here to read
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Do a quizand calculate your results to find out your sleep-type


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Task 5: Homework **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Time to do a sleep-idioms worksheet
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Choose a couple of questions from the discussion area to elaborate further on.