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GO TO SLEEP
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1 leep is very important. Did you know that sleep is more important than food? A
person who does not sleep dies at a younger age than a person who does not eat.
2 Let’s say you go to sleep 12 hours later than you usually do. It will take your body about
three weeks to return to normal. We spend about one-third (1/3) of our lives in sleep. That’s
about 121 days a year!
How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every
day. Children 6 to 12 years old need an average of 10 to 12 hours of sleep. A teenager needs
9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a night. There are some
people who need only 3 hours of sleep. Others need 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the
average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a night. We need less sleep as we get older.
3 Most people have some nights when they cannot sleep. About one in three Americans
has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep or stay asleep.
The name of this problem is insomnia. The word insomnia means “no sleep.” Some
people say, “I didn’t sleep all night.” They may sleep lightly and wake up several
times. In the morning, they only remember the times they were awake, so they
think they were awake all night.
4 is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these
people had special ideas to make them sleep. Benjamin Franklin, the famous statesman 1 and
inventor, had four beds. He moved from one to the other to fall asleep. King Louis XIV of
France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous
American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed!
I- READING COMPREHENSION
LOOKING FOR MAIN IDEAS
Answer these questions with complete sentences.
1. How many hours of sleep do people of different ages need?
2. What is the name of the problem for people who cannot
sleep?
3. Who are two famous Americans who had a problem with
sleep?
II- VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
A Complete these sentences with the words in the box.
adult awake invent normal
or
averag fall let’s teenage
e asleep say r
1. the age of 50, people sleep a(n) of 6.5 hours a
night.
2. you don’t sleep one day. How would you feel the next day?
3. people cannot . They call this problem
insomnia.
4. needs an average of 7 to 8 hours of sleep
every day.
5. Franklin was a(n) .
6. needs 9 to 10 hours of sleep every day.
7. you don’t sleep one night, it takes weeks for your body to go back
to
.
8. you don’t sleep for a few hours at night, you think you
were all night.
B Choose the correct answer. Then use the answer in a
complete sentence.
1. Which of the following is a good thing to do to fall asleep?
a. going shopping b. reading a difficult book c.
cooking
EXAMPLE: Reading a difficult book is a good thing to do to fall asleep.
2. Which of the following is a teenager?
a. a boy of 16 b. a girl of 11 c. a
person of 21
3. Which of the following was an inventor?
a. Mahatma Gandhi b. Thomas Edison c.
William Shakespeare
4. What is the average of 11, 16, and 18?
a. 16 b. 45 c. 15
5. At what age are you an
adult? b. 21 c. 12
a. 14
6. What is a normal time for an adult to go to bed?
a. seven o’clock at night b. two o’clock in the morning c. ten
o’clock at night
III- VOCABULARY BUILDING
AComplete these sentences with the correct form of the new
words in the box.
to snore = to make noise when you sleep
to dream = to see pictures in your sleep
to have a nightmare = to have a bad dream
1. Sometimes I in color.
2. I usually wake up when I . I am so scared and my
heart beats fast.
3. My brother says he can’t sleep because I when I sleep. I
don’t believe him.
B Now make your own sentences with the new words.
IV- LOOKING FOR DETAILS
Decide if the following statements are True (T) or False (F).
1. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night.
2. After age 50, the average sleep time is 6.5 hours a night.
3. One in four Americans has a problem with sleep.
4. We spend about a quarter of our lives in sleep.
5. Benjamin Franklin had four beds.
6. Mark Twain was a famous inventor.
V- DISCUSSION
A Find out from the students in your class how they sleep. Fill out
this chart.
Name Number Do You Do You
of Hours Get Up in Remember
of Sleep the Night? Your
Each Dreams?
Night
JOANDEL 9 sometimes no
B Discuss the answers to these questions with your classmates.
1. What do people eat or drink to help them sleep?
2. What may make you sleep badly or lose sleep?
3. What things do you need in a room to be able to sleep?
VI- CRITICAL THINKING
Discuss the answers to these questions with your classmates.
1. What happens when people don’t get enough
sleep? How can one person’s insomnia affect
other people?
2. Let’s say you need only three hours of sleep. What do you
do with all that extra time?
