Talking about sleep - Real Easy English
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0:00
Hello,
I'm
Neil.
0:01
And
I'm
Beth.
0:03
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0:09
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0:29
How
are
things,
Beth?
0:31
I'm
very
well,
thank
you,
Neil.
How
are
you?
0:34
Oh,
I'm
a
little
tired.
I
didn't
sleep
very
well
last
night.
0:39
And
today's
episode
is
all
about
sleep.
0:44
We'll
be
talking
about
our
sleep
habits,
and
also
our
dreams.
0:50
Lovely.
0:51
So,
Neil,
you
said
that
you
didn't
sleep
well
last
night.
0:56
So
that's
not
so
lovely.
Does
that
happen
very
often?
1:00
It
happens
all
the
time,
Beth!
I
don't
sleep
very
well.
1:04
Oh,
dear.
How
many
hours
do
you
sleep
at
night,
Neil?
1:07
I
think
probably
six
and
a
half
hours.
1:11
—
Really?
—
Mmm.
How
about
you?
1:14
Well,
if
I
sleep
less
than
eight
hours,
then
I'm
exhausted.
1:19
I
really
like
to
sleep
quite
a
lot!
1:22
Ah,
you
are
exhausted.
What
does
'exhausted'
mean,
Beth?
1:25
—
It
means
that
you
are
'really
tired'.
—
Mm,
yes.
1:30
Like
you
after
last
night
because
you
didn't
sleep
very
well.
Are
you
exhausted?
1:34
I
am,
Beth.
I
am
absolutely
exhausted.
1:40
What
time
do
you
usually
go
to
bed,
Neil?
1:43
About
11.
I
go
to
bed
about
11.
1:46
I
usually
go
earlier,
but
about
ten
o'clock.
1:49
And
do
you
have
dreams?
Do
you
dream
often?
1:53
Yeah,
I
do,
but
I
find
it
quite
hard
to
remember
my
dreams.
1:59
But
sometimes
I
have
nightmares,
and
then
they
are
easier
to
remember.
2:04
So
I
might
wake
up
in
the
middle
of
the
night
and
feel
a
bit
scared
or
worried.
2:11
Can
you
tell
us
about
a
strange
dream
that
you've
had?
2:15
Yeah,
I
had
a
weird
dream
a
couple
of
nights
ago.
2:19
I
was
at
my
auntie's
house
in
the
kitchen
2:23
and
then
suddenly
the
floor
was
very
wet
2:26
and
there
were
three
robbers
that
were
going
to
come
and
open
the
front
door.
2:32
So
I
had
to
run
across
the
wet
kitchen
and
lock
the
front
door.
2:36
It
was
a
bit
scary
and
weird.
2:40
Yeah.
That
sounds
like
a
really
scary
dream.
2:43
Yeah.
So,
a
scary
dream
we
can
call
a
'nightmare'.
2:47
So,
I
had
a
nightmare,
a
bad
dream,
the
other
night.
2:52
And
I
was
in
a
foreign
country,
I
think
somewhere
like
Italy,
a
European
place,
3:00
and
I
couldn't
find
my
family.
3:04
And
I
was
running
around
the
streets,
3:07
trying
to
find
them
and
I
couldn't
find
them.
3:10
But
then,
after
a
while
of
looking
around
the
streets,
3:16
I
saw
people
in
my
family,
and
I
felt
much
better.
3:21
So
it
sounds
like
it
started
as
a
nightmare,
3:25
but
then
it
kind
of
went
into
a
dream.
3:28
Yeah.
It
was
just
a
normal,
happy
dream
by
the
end.
3:31
Good!
3:31
Well,
I
noticed
there
that
you
used
the
past
simple
3:35
and
the
past
continuous
to
describe
your
dream.
3:38
You
said
'I
was
running
around',
which
is
the
past
continuous
3:43
and
then
you
said
'I
found
them',
which
was
the
past
simple.
3:46
And
this
is
really
common
language
that
we
use
3:49
when
we're
describing
things
in
the
past
like
dreams.
3:53
So,
we've
talked
about
how
long
we
sleep
for
3:56
and
we've
talked
about
dreams
and
nightmares,
3:59
but
I
have
a
big
question
for
you,
Neil.
4:02
Do
you
snore?
4:07
You
do!
4:09
That
is
snoring.
Do
I
snore?
4:12
I
don't
think
I
do,
4:14
but
my
wife
says
that
I
do.
4:18
Oh,
so
you
do
snore!
4:19
No,
I've
never
heard
myself
snore!
4:28
Let's
have
a
look
at
the
language
we
learned
in
this
conversation.
4:34
We
learnt
'nightmare',
which
is
'a
bad
or
scary
dream'.
4:38
We
heard
'exhausted'
—
'very
tired'.
4:43
And
we
learnt
a
way
to
talk
about
dreams
4:46
using
the
past
simple
and
the
past
continuous.
4:50
For
example,
you
dreamt
that
you
were
4:53
running
around
trying
to
find
your
family
and
then
you
found
them.
4:58
I
did.
5:00
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5:23
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5:24
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