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Listening no. 4. (22.02.2018)

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Can we Catch Up on Lost Sleep?

 

 

 

Fill the gaps....

Doctors always have ________ that we ________ recover lost sleep.

But a new ________ of Stockholm University ________ that it is not a ________ idea to sleep extra ________ on the ________ in case we ________ it.

The research says that the amount of ________ we spend sleeping in total is more ________ than the ________ of hours we sleep in one particular ________.

This contradicts the belief that ________ is not ________ that we ________ recover.

This ________ contradicts the belief that sleeping ________ than we ________ causes irreversible damage.

The author of this ________ study ________ that we can compensate the lack of ________ sleep on ________ by sleeping a ________ more ________ weekends

The ________  looked at the sleeping habits and general ________ of ________ people

They discovered that too ________ sleep leads to ________ rates of ________ mortality.

On the other ________ they found out that ________ much sleep is not ________ either.

It found that the ideal ________ of hours that a person ________ spend sleeping per ________ is ________.

________ than ________ hours or more than ________ can increase the ________ of serious ________ problems.

Then, if at the ________ of a ________ week, your ________ feels like it ________ a few ________ hours of sleep, don't ________ bad ________ it. Stay in ________ and ________ in.

 

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Vocabulary

• catch up on = recover = recuperar
• lost= perdido
• research = investigación
• amount = cantidad
• belief = creencia
• damage = daño
• lack of= falta de
• rates = tasas (cifras)
• increase = aumentar
• sleep in = dormir hasta más tarde

Questions:

1.    Where is Mr Marchand from?

2.    How old is he?

3.    What was his job in Paris back in the 1930s?

4.    What did he do for a living when he lived in Venezuela?

5.    What happened to him in World War II?

6.    Can you define what a lumberjack is?

7.    Did he work as a gardener when he lived in Canada?

8.    Is he famous for his victories when he was a professional racing cyclist?

9.    In his opinion, where is the secret of his good shape and longevity?

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