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背景音乐:Foxygen-Shuggie
Get some sleep
Explain the words below in English
1.If he doesn’t go to sleep early enough, Kenny feels groggy the next morning.
2.Although I didn’t watch TV as a kid, I didn’t feel deprived.
3.Poor study habits have become a serious epidemic in some countries.
4.It is important to foster a healthy learning environment.
Key points
Investing the link between gum disease and heart disease......
Paraphrase:
1.The toothbrush gently removes plaque without damaging the gums.
2.Spit out that gum and pay attention.
3.Watercolours are pigments ground with gum arabic and gall and thinned with water in use.
What’s the difference between preserve and protect?
Inflammation : noun of action from past participle stem of inflammare "to set on fire" (inflame). Literal sense "act of setting on fire" in English is from 1560s.
Idioms :
tinsel-teeth
Well, tinsel-teeth, today’s the day your braces come off.
have teeth
The committee can make recommendations but it has no real teeth.
bare(show) one’s teeth
His refusal to accept my offer made it clear I'd have to bare my teeth.
a kick in the teeth
She was refused promotion which was a real kick in the teeth after all the extra work she'd done.
Comprehension exercises:
It is very important to create a _________ environment where you can get a good _________ sleep.
Scrambled sentences:
to develop heart disease/ have shown/ that people with gum disease/ several studies/ are more likely than others
__________________________________________________________________________________
but people with gum disease/ won’t necessarily/ should have their hearts checked/ preventing gum disease/ help your heart
__________________________________________________________________________________
Discussions:
How much sleep do you get every night?
Do you think you need to change your sleep patterns? Why or why not ?