Unit 1: English in the News
Improve your English through the language of the news
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Session 10
รางวัลโนเบลสาขาการแพทย์ปีนี้ เป็นของนักวิจัยที่ค้นพบนาฬิกาชีวิตค่ะ ตามชานและแคลร์ไปอ่านข่าวนี้ และฝึกการใช้คำศัพท์ภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับ 'การนอน' กันค่ะ
Researchers win Nobel Prize for discovering why we sleep - Join Sian and Clare to find out more about this news story and to learn words relating to sleep! (Background image: Getty Images)
Activity 1
How to talk about sleep! วิธีพูดถึงการนอน
รางวัลโนเบลสาขาการแพทย์ปีนี้ เป็นของนักวิจัยที่ค้นพบนาฬิกาชีวิตค่ะ
ตามชานและแคลร์ไปอ่านข่าวนี้ และฝึกการใช้คำศัพท์ภาษาอังกฤษเกี่ยวกับ 'การนอน' กันค่ะ
Researchers win Nobel Prize for discovering why we sleep - Join Sian and Clare to find out more about this news story and to learn words relating to sleep! (Background image: Getty Images)
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The story
Three American scientists who unravelled how our bodies tell the time have won the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. The body clock – or circadian rhythm is the reason we want to sleep at night, but it also drives huge changes in behaviour and body function.
Key words and phrases
a nap
a short sleep, normally during the day
nap (verb)
sleep for a short time
doze
sleep for a short time; sleep lightly
a night owl
a person who likes being awake and active at night
To do
Now try this quiz to see how much you remember about the language and phrases Sian and Clare discussed.
Practice time!
3 Questions
Now do this quiz to test your knowledge of the language discussed in today's English in the News
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Now do this quiz to test your knowledge of the language discussed in today's English in the News
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Are these types of sleep short or long?Question 1 of 3
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Now do this quiz to test your knowledge of the language discussed in today's English in the News
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What's the opposite of a night owl?Question 2 of 3
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Now do this quiz to test your knowledge of the language discussed in today's English in the News
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Sian mentioned 2 verbs you can use with the noun 'nap' - one was 'take', what was the other?Question 3 of 3
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Session Vocabulary
a nap
a short sleep, normally during the daynap (verb)
sleep for a short timedoze
sleep for a short time; sleep lightly
a night owl
a person who likes being awake and active at nighta morning person
a person who is awake and active in the morningssnooze
sleep lighly
