Part 1
This theme presents some research findings on the relationship between sleep and academic outcomes.
Click on this video to get started: What would happen if you didn't sleep.
Each time we watch a video or read an article, we have an opportunity to learn some new words. We'll put them in a WORD table like this: Vocabulary-list-What-would-happen-if-you-didnt-sleep.
Watch this video on how to use the table.
And here they are right on this page for quick reference:
- cope (0:18)
- moody (0:29)
- uncoordinated (0:29)
- recovered (0:40)
- shut-eye (0:44)
- illness (0:44)
- a night (0:58)
- rise (1:12)
- sleep-inducing (1:12)
- doze off ( )
- replenish ( )
- sleep-deprived ( )
- bodily harm ( )
- sleeplessness ( )
- chronically ( )
- stroke ( )
- a handful ( )
- insomnia ( )
- by-products ( )
- urge ( )
- collectively overload ( )
- buildup ( )
- flush away ( )
- clear out ( )
- slumber ( )
Okay, so, having a list of words to learn is a start. There's a good way to learn new words and there are the other ways. Look at this to learn how to take advantage of what our brains do well.
Click here for a Moodle practice quiz for the video's vocabulary.
Next, read the article "School can wait: What happened when Seattle let its high schoolers sleep in," highlight new words and add some (say, 10?) to your vocabulary table. (The way say is used in "say, 10" is the equivalent of disons in French to give a rough estimate.)
Click here for a Moodle practice quiz for the article's vocabulary.
Suggestion: It's better to spend 20 to 30 minutes most days on your English than 1 time each week for 3 hours. We learn languages faster this way.
Part 2
Let's find out more about sleep and learning. By staying with the same topic, we reinforce the new words we're learning because we see and use them more than one time.
The article “Why sleeping may be more important than studying” presents more findings that show the importance of sleep for good results at school. Read it and choose 5 to 10 more words to add to your Vocabulary Table.
Here's a Moodle quiz on the article to help us learn new words and improve our puntuation.
Next, watch the video "The shocking power of waking up early." Add 10 (or more) of these words to your Vocabulary Table. Be sure to complete all the columns in the table for each of your choices.
- conducted (0:16) a few years ago, biologists conducted a transformative study
- study (0:16) a few years ago, biologists conducted a transformative study
- a number of (0:23) discovering a number of advantages that morning people have over night owls
- night owl (0:23)
- circadian clock (0:30)
- alike (0:44) as you can imagine, not everyone's clock looks exactly alike
- chronotype (0:53)
- yawning (0:55)
- early-risers (1:10) the ones who revealed the advantages of early-risers
- to happen to (1:20) two extreme time periods which happen to affect every chronotype the same way
- whether (1:29) whether we have good sleeping habits or not
- in order to (1:40)
- consistently (1:48)
- significantly (2:10) early-risers are, on average, significantly better at making and maintaining schedules
- slamming (2:30) to avoid slamming your hand down on the snooze button
- snooze ( )
- honing ( ) you are honing a disciplined and organized mind
- caveat ( )
- plenty of ( )
- yet (3:00) if you know that you could go back to sleep, yet still decide to wake up at 5 a.m. every day
- proactive ( )
- stem from ( )
- spare time ( )
- more likely to ( )
- set the tone (4:10) The first hour of the day often sets the tone for the next fourteen
- mitigate ( ) you can mitigate the amount of extraneous mental stress
- bumper to bumper ( )
- account for (4:43) this difference actually accounts for a significant disparity between the satisfaction levels of early-risers and those of night owls
- conscientious ( )
- relates to (5:50)
- thrilling ( )
- nourishing ( )
- to have little to do with ( ) sleep quality has little to do with the actual volume of sleep
- to pull an all-nighter (7:40)
- sunrise ( )
- even though ( )
- ill prepared ( )
- nutrients ( )
- jumpstart ( )
- fast (8:44) when we wake up in the morning we are essentially breaking a fast
- refuel ( )
- correlated with ( ) this skewed schedule is also correlated with weight gain, poor concentration, and a lack of productivity
- lack ( )
- outcomes ( ) to avoid these negative outcomes
- decisiveness (10:30)
Verb Focus
When we talk with each other about our sleep habits and their impacts, we tend to use some verb tenses more than others. Now's a good time to review the verb form that we use most for sharing knowledge and talking about our habits.
Sometimes we also want to say how our habits have changed. For that we need the verb form for telling stories about the past.
In the evaluations, scores are higher when we pronounce the "s" and "ed" at the ends of words. That goes for our writing also.
Notes: A How To
If we can take good notes, we'll get more out of our speaking activities:
- They help us speak about our topics in a more organized and detailed way.
- They help us learn facts from our sources that we'll be able to use in the speaking and writing evaluations.
- They help us target new words that we want to say.
- They help us remember to pronounce our s and ed word endings.
Here again is our guide to good notes.
Here's a formative Moodle quiz on note-taking.
If you're already strong at note-taking, you know it helps you learn more and study better. It's a worthwhile skill for most courses and for the workplace, too.