Let's Learn English! Topic: Sleep 🛏️💤😴 (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about sleep. Uh

I'm actually wondering if you are a little sleepy while

you're watching this lesson or maybe you're wide awake. In

English when we talk about sleep we talk about that time

at night when you're just laying in bed with your eyes

closed and not doing anything but resting and you're kind of

out for the night. You're just kind of having a good night's

sleep. I'm excited to talk about this and I'll explain a

little bit why I'm doing the topic of sleep. Uh I was on a

trip with some students from school. An overnight trip. And

as a teacher it can be a little hard to get a good night sleep

when you're on a trip with students. Um they tend to stay

up later than they're supposed to. Sometimes they make it

difficult. So I did get some sleep on Thursday night and on

Wednesday night. But while I was there I was thinking to

myself what should my next English lesson be about? And I

thought you know what? I should do an English lesson about

sleep. So once again welcome to this English lesson about sleep

where you'll learn some words and phrases that you can use in

your next English conversation to talk about sleep. Sleep. So

sleep is just a state of being. It's the opposite of being

awake. And it's something that's very necessary for human

beings. You need six or seven or eight maybe nine hours of

sleep a day to be healthy. And sleep itself is a time where

you you go to bed you close your eyes and you enter into a

state where you are not conscious. You are sleeping.

You are in a sleep state. And while you sleep I think it

helps your body repair itself. It helps your brain to relax

and process everything that you did the day before. And all of

this happens without you really being aware of it. For me sleep

feels a little bit like time travel. I close my eyes at 10

or 10: 30 PM and then I open my eyes at six or 630 and I don't

remember time passing. Uh by the way that's not actually my

sleep pattern. My sleep pattern is to fall asleep around 1030

and sometime in the middle of the night I do wake up to

co-pee. I I'm getting older. I usually get up once in the

night to go to the washroom. But sleep a wonderful thing

that human beings do at night. I love it. I really really Um

and a broader way to talk about it is sleep is one form of

rest. Um humans it's important to rest. During the day you

might have a coffee break where you can rest for a bit. Um when

you go for a long walk you might need to rest. So rest

isn't the same as sleep. But sleep is a type of rest. Okay

so we need many different forms of rest if we are active.

Especially if you have a very physical job. Um and Sleep is a

type of rest. So let's talk about what you do. You get

ready for bed and then you go to bed and then you fall

asleep. That's kind of how you go through the process of

sleeping. So for me around 930 quarter to ten at night I start

to get ready for bed. I go to the washroom. I brush my teeth.

Um because I'm older I take my pills. I have two medications

that I have to take. Um but I get for bed. I do all the

things I need to do so that I can then go to bed. So getting

ready for bed is everything you do before you actually get in

bed. And then when you say that you when you go to bed it's the

physical act of getting in bed. Um but it also describes

everything you do before head. Like I could say I'm going to

get ready to go to bed. And then I would do all those

things and then when I actually get to my bed and crawl in.

When you go to bed though it doesn't mean that you're going

to go to sleep right away. Some people go to bed and read. Some

people might have a TV in their room. And they might go to bed

and watch TV for a little bit before they actually go to

sleep. Um if you have a partner you might do other things that

I'm not going to describe here. Um there's more than just sleep

that can happen in a bed between consenting adults. But

that's for a more that's for a different less subdate. Um and

then once you're done reading or once you're done maybe

watching some TV or maybe you just lay for a bit and think

about life eventually you will fall asleep. So this is when

your eyes close and you enter into a state of sleep. So you

can be in bed not sleeping. But the moment where you I think

sometimes we say when you drift off then you are asleep and you

hopefully have a very very nice evening. Now when Morning comes

different things happen. First you wake up and then you get

up. Um and it's kind of hard sometimes to understand the

difference between these two. So I usually describe it this

way. If I'm asleep the moment my eyes open I would describe

that as waking up. I wake up when I go from a state of sleep

to being awake. It doesn't mean that I'm out of bed. Okay? That

I would use the to get up. So I wake up around six 630 and I

get up around I don't know if I wake up at six I get up around

605 or 610 if I wake up at 630 I get up around six

thirty-five. I don't often get up right after I wake up. I

usually wake up and then Jen and I sometimes talk for a few

minutes and then eventually I will get up and get the day

started. Now I'm also someone though who needs to have a nap

during the day. Now you'll notice that you can have a nap

but you can also nap. So you can use it as a noun and a

verb. I like to nap on Saturday afternoons. I've mentioned that

a few times. Um I like to take a nap or I like to have a nap.

So there's a few ways to talk about it. Let me repeat all

those. I like to nap on Saturday afternoons. Um later

today I'm have a nap. Later today I might take a nap. And a

nap is just a really short amount of sleep. For me five to

10 minutes. Sometimes half an hour depending how tired I am.

And I always nap on a couch. I can't nap in bed. Because if I

try to take a nap in bed I sleep for too long and then

sometimes I wake up very confused. So I usually sleep I

usually have a on the couch behind me. I'll show you where

I have a nap. This is where I'll be napping later today

probably. Uh and I like to nap sitting up. Uh sitting up in on

the couch or in a chair. Um naps are amazing. They're like

one of the best things in life. Now there's two ways to

describe sleep. You can have a good night's sleep or you can

have a bad night's sleep. It's so nice to have a good night I

actually had a good night sleep. Um I went to bed on time

and I got up somewhat early because I had to finish making

this lesson. Um I had to fight all the pictures for this

lesson. Um but I had a good night's sleep. When you have a

good night sleep you're alert. You're able to do things. You

can think clearly. But when you don't sleep well. When you have

a bad night sleep. Uh in in formal English you might say ah

I slept like **** last night. Or I slept horribly. Oh I had a

terrible night sleep. I think we have more ways of describing

a bad night sleep than we do describing a good night's

sleep. Um when you have a bad night's sleep it's not good. Um

you end up going through the day and feeling tired because

you have a lack of sleep. So yesterday I definitely was

feeling that I had a lack of sleep. Thursday night I only

slept for about six hours. And I had a lack of sleep

yesterday. We went on a hike around the city of Hamilton.

And it I love walking and hiking but I could tell that I

was suffering from a lack of sleep. We also describe that by

saying you have a lack of energy. So lack of sleep lack

of energy. Um and then one more before we do questions is to

have no gumption. In English gumption is a word we use to

describe having energy. When you have a lot of gumption you

have a lot of energy to do things. When you have no

gumption it is very difficult to do things. Um because you

just don't have a lot energy. Usually from a lack of sleep. I

feel very energetic right now. But I feel like later today I'm

going to yawn quite a bit. I think it's going to hit me

later today. In English when you say something hits you it

means you feel it. Um I think right now I slept okay. I'm

feeling energetic but later I'm going to yawn. When you yawn it

is an involuntary action. You don't decide to yawn. It just

happens. And it usually happens when you're tired or fatigued.

I think it's a response to maybe not having enough oxygen

in your bloodstream. I'm not a doctor or medical professional

but I think that's what it is. But it's definitely something

you do when you are tired. When you're sleepy. Um I sometimes

yawn in class when I'm teaching. And when students

catch me yawning they're like what why are you yawning?

You're supposed to be teaching right now. But it's not

something you decide to do. Uh when I was on the trip that I

recently went on whenever we sat down I would yawn and I

would be afraid that I was going to nod off because I was

a little bit tired. But again sometimes people make noise

when they yawn. Sometimes they do this like they make like a

little tired sigh sound but definitely an action that you

do when you are tired and it's polite to cover your mouth when

you yawn insomnia. So insomnia is a condition. It is something

that you would say you have. You could say I have insomnia

and it means that you have trouble sleeping at night.

Maybe you go to bed at 11 PM. You sleep for one hour and then

you're wide awake and you can't get back to sleep. That's how

we would say that. Um it's I don't have this. I do sometimes

wake up in the night but it's usually easy for me to fall

back asleep. Jen sometimes though has trouble falling back

asleep. I wouldn't say it's so serious that she has insomnia.

I think insomnia is something that happens regularly like

every night you have difficulty sleeping. I had a co-worker

once who had insomnia. He would go to bed and it would take him

four or five hours to fall asleep. That's a long time. So

I'm glad that I fall asleep quickly. And I certainly feel

bad for people who have insomnia. Sleeping pills. I've

only ever had sleeping pills once and that's when I was in

the hospital after my surgery. I was having trouble sleeping

after I had heart surgery and they gave me just a tiny dose

of a sleeping pill to help me sleep. So a sleeping pill is a

medication that they will prescribe to you that will help

you sleep. So if you're someone who has insomnia and you go to

the doctor the doctor might prescribe sleeping pills for

you. He the doctor might prescribe a pill you can take

to help you Sleep at night. This is what I was worried

about yesterday a little bit that I was going to nod off or

doze off. This is when you fall asleep during the day when

you're not really supposed to. Um if any of you ever went to

university or were in university or if you remember

when you were in high school sometimes when you have a

boring teacher you might nod off while the teacher is

talking. Um or you might doze off. This guy looks like he's a

street artist and it's probably the middle of the day. Maybe

it's a little bit hot and there are no customers currently

buying his drawings so he looks like he is he's decided to doze

off a little bit. I use nod off of the two phrases. I use this

one more. Um I I I don't like it when I accidentally nod off.

Um it's really embarrassing if it happens during a meeting.

That did happen to B Woods. I was in a staff meeting and I

felt myself nodding off. So not a good thing. To snore. If I

sleep on my back I snore. I'll make a snoring sound. It's not

a nice sound. It's like

So snoring is when you know inside your nose and your

throat it's it's when the air passage closes a little bit and

then I'm not sure exactly what's moving in there but

something inside is moving as you breathe and creating a

sound. So snoring is not a nice thing if you sleep in the same

room as other people. Um because

it's just a sound where it makes it hard for other people

to sleep. So if I sleep on my back we'll talk about sleep

positions in a bit. If I sleep on my back I snore. If I sleep

on my side I don't snore I sometimes still snore a little

bit. But snoring is making a sound while sleeping at night.

To snooze. So snooze is just another word for having a nap

or sleeping a little bit. Um you could say by the way you

can also use it as a noun. I'm going to have a snooze or I'm

going to snooze on the couch. That's the verb form. Um our

dogs snooze when they come in. So when Jen works outside all

morning she comes in to have a snack and some tea. And both

dogs will snooze for 10 minutes. Walter didn't use to

snooze when he came in but he's getting I think he's a year and

a half he'll be two years in the spring. He's starting to

show signs of slowing down a bit. He's a little less

energetic. So he will snooze a little bit when he comes in. To

hit the sack to hit the hay. I use the phrase to hit the hay.

Might be because I live on a farm. But it's just simply an

informal way of saying that you are going to bed. Okay? So even

on the trip I was on I might say to I might say to someone

okay I'm just going to hit the hay. I'm feeling tired. I know

it's early but I'm just going to hit the sack. Um and

again I use hay and it might be regional. But you could both

phrases work. It simply means to go to bed. To sleepwalk I do

not do this. We had one kid who did do this for a little bit

years ago. It means to walk around at night. But you're not

actually awake. So when you sleepwalk for some reason you

get out of bed. And you're still like you're not in a deep

sleep. But you're not awake. You're you're still yeah you're

still in some sort of sleep state and you walk around and

you might even do things. Like you might sleepwalk and go and

open your front door and then go back to bed and then the

next morning the front door is open. And you don't know who

opened it. Okay so a dream is something you have at night.

And the verb is to dream. So I could say last night I had a

really cool dream. Or last night I dreamt about something

cool. I dreamt about going to France last night. So when you

dream it's like you see how would I describe it? It's like

you see a little movie in your own head. Usually with in it

about things that you are doing or experiencing. Um it's like

it's similar to imagining. During the day you can imagine

yourself doing things. At night when you dream it you don't

have to think about. It just happens to you. So you can

dream at night. And then of course there are bad dreams.

Which we call nightmares. So a dream is just anytime at night.

Like this boy is feeding an obviously larger than life

giraffe. So this would be like a dream. Um something a real.

And a nightmare is simply a dream where scary things

happen. And I use the word bad dream as well. To talk about

that. To sleep in. So generally people will sleep in when they

don't have to go to work. Or when they don't have to go to

school. So usually people will sleep in on the weekends. Okay.

If I was in the UK would I say at the weekends? Yeah I think

they say it differently. Um but for me I sleep in a Little bit

on Saturday and Sunday mornings because I don't need to go to

work. So what it means to sleep in is if you normally get up at

5 AM on Saturday you might sleep in till eight or 9 AM. So

you might stay in bed longer and sleep longer. Because you

don't have to do anything. Sleeping in is a is a is a very

enjoyable activity. Um I wish I was better at it but that's

okay. In order to wake up you might have an alarm clock this

is a pretty old looking alarm clock but you will set your

alarm your alarm will go off and then you might decide to

hit the snooze button I have a picture of that so you can

sleep for five or 10 minutes more but again let me repeat

that an alarm clock is a clock that will ring to wake you up

the alarm will go off so when you go to bed you will set your

alarm if you set it for 5 AM at 5 AM your alarm will go off.

Your your well it might be your phone. Your clock or your phone

might go beep beep beep to wake you up. Uh and if you want to

sleep for another five or 10 minutes. I think my alarm clock

if I hit snooze it goes off again seven minutes later. It's

usually somewhere in there five to 10 minutes. Um and then then

you really need to get up because you might be running

late. Um and then you might sleep through your alarm. I'm

not sure if you can see it here but this person their dog has

climbed into bed and the dog's head is over his ear. So he

might sleep through his alarm. This has never happened to me.

It's pretty easy for me to wake up if I hear a noise. If my

alarm goes up it wakes me up. But I do know there's some

people where they their alarm might go off and they might

sleep through it. They they might not the beeping at all

and then they might be late for work. Sleep positions. So you

can sleep on your back. You can sleep on your side. You can

sleep on your stomach. Um I generally sleep on my side. Um

I used to sleep on my back. But I I do find if I sleep on my

side I snore less. So I sleep better. I have a better night's

sleep if I sleep on my side. Um slumber. So when you slumber

whenever I think of the word slumber which means to sleep.

It it means the same thing. It's like a word you hear or

you see in a a like a a fairy tale like Sleeping Beauty or

maybe you're reading an old book like it's not it's not a

word we use a lot like I don't say I had a good I had a good

slumber last night or I'm going to slumber. We don't say that

at all. Um but you will see this word if you read.

Definitely if you read older books for sure. And then to be

wide awake. This is what we all hope for. This is kind of the

opposite of sleep but it's what you get if you sleep well. If

you have a good night sleep you wake up energetic you're wide

awake you're ready to do what you need to do that day. So I

was not quite wide awake this morning. My alarm went off at

six this morning because I wasn't done preparing this

lesson. So I wasn't wide awake. So I'm glad the lesson went

well. Um and I'm glad I didn't make any spelling mistakes on

the slides. And I think it was a fairly good lesson on sleep.

I I might have missed a few words here and there like

bedtime. But other than that I think maybe I'll redo this

lesson in three years and I'll think of some other things to

teach you.