The topic explained
LESSON 4A LISTENING AND VOCABULARY
- I can tell the difference between a fact and an opinion.
Fact or opinion: a radio programme about dreams
Exercise 1, question 1: What is known and what is thought about sleep dreaming?
Exercise 1, question 2: What is exciting about a recent breakthrough?
Exercise 2: Is the extract a fact, an opinion, or both? Say why.
1 Sleep is essential for our health.
2 We dream in order for our brains to process memories.
3 Lucid dreamers are in a real dreaming state.
4 Lucid dreamers can direct the content of their dreams.
Exercise 3: How did you decide?
DOES EVERYONE DREAM?
Recurring dreams and sleep collocations
Exercise 4, speaker 1: the speaker felt …
Exercise 4, speaker 2: the speaker felt …
Exercise 4, speaker 3: the speaker felt …
Exercise 4, speaker 4: the speaker felt …
Exercise 4, speaker 5: the speaker felt …
Exercise 5, speaker 1: the reason for the dream
1 When it’s unbearably warm at night, I often get a ___ night’s sleep.
2 I used to get very ___ dreams when I was a child, but I don’t so much now.
3 One of my friends always gives us a ___ description of his dreams the following morning, which is pretty boring!
4 It’s hard to wake me up when I’m in ___ sleep.
5 I’m quite a ___ sleeper and I wake up at the smallest noise.
6 My ___ dreams are definitely anxiety-based. They tend to repeat until I have completed the task in my waking life.
