Can you sleep during lockdown?: BBC News Review

hello and welcome to News Review recorded in our homes I'm on one side of

London Catherine is on the other hi Catherine hello Neil hello everyone so

what story have you got for us today well we've got a sleep story today Neil

have you been sleeping okay during the coronavirus actually I've been sleeping

very well I don't know what that says about me but yes I've been sleeping very

well and you well it is interesting because a lot of people around the world

haven't been sleeping very well during these times and that's what we're

looking at today okay well let's find out some more about

that from this BBC Radio 1 news beat report and more than half of the UK

population is struggling to sleep properly during lockdown according to a

survey King's College London spoke to more than 2,000 people two in five said

they've had unusual dreams and lots of young people said they were sleeping but

not feeling rested a lot of people in the UK are finding it difficult to sleep

during the corona virus pandemic two in five people say they're experiencing

weird dreams and a lot of young people are saying they don't feel very rested

at the moment ok well that's not very nice for a lot of people let's have a

look at some of the vocabulary you've picked out to help us discuss this story

what have you got we have disrupted uneasy and insomnia

disrupted uneasy and insomnia ok so your first headline pleased with and

disrupted so we're starting here in the UK with the independent the headline is

half of British adults say their sleep has been disrupted in lockdown disrupted

prevented from continuing yes disrupted D is R u p t-- e d disrupted

there are three syllables in this word the stress is on the roped the middle

syllable Neil would you like to demonstrate disrupted

there you go thank you so this word starts with a lovely prefix the letters

D is dis I've found in front of a lot of words and the general meaning of the

prefix dis is often bad or wrong so we already know that there's something it's

describing something difficult disrupted means disturbed to the extent that

something can't continue something happens which means that you can't

continue or finish what you're doing in the way you want to do it now near

you're a father with children at home at the moment aren't you yes yes they're

their normal lives have really been disrupted because of course they don't

go to school yes so things are very different for them and I know you're

working from home as well in your home office I am right here any disruptions

yes disruption a noun there I do have a few disruptions I have to say a knock on

the door and will you play football with me in the garden daddy that kind of

thing so you've got disruptive kids they are disruptive for the adjective yes yes

so we've got the noun verb an adjective so it's disruption disrupt and

disruptive to describe people or things that disrupt is it the same as disturb

it's a bit stronger than disturb I think if you disrupt something you really make

it difficult to continue whereas disturbed might be sort of temporary or

something that kind of gets in the way a little bit

and we also use disturb to describe the way we think and feel so you could say

that you could watch a disturbing film for example something that makes you

feel uncomfortable and a bit upset you wouldn't say I watched a disruptive film

last night okay let's get a summary of that please

let's have a look then at our second headline yes now the sleep story isn't

just confined to the UK here's a headline from the United States from NPR

and it reads like this how to get sleep in uneasy times uneasy worrying anxious

yes uneasy you and II a sy uneasy now Catherine I'm going to interrupt you

here and I'm gonna give you my theory okay because I know in this word I can

see two parts one of them is easy I know what easy means and at the beginning

there's um which means not so I'm going to say that uneasy is the opposite of

easy it means difficult right well if only it

were that simple Neal you're kind of right to an extent but there are some

major differences in the way we use uneasy it's true in this headline you

could take out the word uneasy and put in difficult and say we are having

difficult times that's true we are however uneasy is about a feeling you

get when things aren't normal and you feel scared you feel anxious you feel

worried you feel fearful of the future so when some things eat uneasy or it

makes you feel uneasy it's really to do with being worried okay so I couldn't

say I once tried to learn Russian and I was uneasy no you shouldn't say that no

no no okay no no if you're uneasy you might feel uneasy if you have to

perform something in Russian when you'd only be learning for a little while that

might you feel like a very kind of anxious and nervous but it's more to do

with fear unease okay it's also an owl isn't it yes I just said it unease is a

noun you can say I had a feeling of unease

when I heard a noise outside my bedroom window at 3 o'clock in the morning I

hope it was nothing serious it was the Foxes always ofcourse urban

foxes terrible ok let's have a summary

before we move on Catherine would like to apologize to the foxes I really like

foxes really do ok sometimes you have to say things then you just to make it

clear yes I do and Oh foxes they're terrible it's terrible to be disturbed

by a fox at 3:00 in the morning but that doesn't mean I don't like them

ok before we have our final headline we have plenty of other stories about

sleeping one in particular we think you will like yes if you don't know what to

do when you can't get to sleep we have some advice for you just click the link

to go to in the description to go straight to the program ok so our final

headline now still in the United States The Wall Street Journal

how sleep has changed in the pandemic insomnia late bedtimes weird dreams

insomnia medical condition in which sleeping is difficult yes I am s om and

I a very interesting word it has an M and an N next to each other which is

quite unusual in English the pronunciation is insomnia insomnia yes

syllabus I n those are in some knee ah and Neal would you like to demonstrate

the stress for us please insomnia definitely the second syllable

thank you very much insomnia and it starts with a prefix this time in I n

another prefix which means not so sum the sum bit is relating to sleep

the in bit means not so not sleep in some

yeah okay so if I had a bad night's sleep last night but you know normally

I'm okay do I have insomnia well you might say you've got insomnia Neil

because you want attention and you're being quite dramatic but insomnia is a

kind of medical term a medical condition which means that you know you can't

sleep regularly and it's really interfering with your life we all have

the odd bad night but insomnia is a bit more serious and the occasional

difficulty sleeping okay but it is sometimes used by people who perhaps

don't have a medical diagnosis dramatic if you want to be dramatic you can say

you've got insomnia okay a person who has insomnia is an

insomniac and insomniac and it's omni AK with AC on the end yes are you an

insomniac Sandile it's not what you think you are I'm not an insomniac I

have had difficulty sleeping in the past but I'm not an insomniac fortunately

because it's quite it's bad for you isn't it yes I think it's quite

unpleasant if you are an insomniac it interferes with your life quite

significantly and you probably could benefit from treatment okay let's have a

summary of that

time now for a summary of our vocabulary okay so we had disrupted prevented from

continuing we had uneasy worrying anxious and

insomnia medical condition in which sleeping is difficult if you would like

to test yourself on the vocabulary there's a quiz on our website BBC

learning english.com stay safe see you next time

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