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Article 03: Sleep well, live well

(Artigo 03: Durma bem, viva bem)

Part 1 | Vocabulary（Parte 1 | Vocabulário）

Task: Read the words and expressions with your teacher.

(Tarefa: Leia as palavras e expressões com seu professor.)

Words and Expressions Examples

(Palavras e Expressões) (Exemplos)

Shhh… the baby is asleep. (Shhh... o bebê

asleep (adormecido)
está adormecido.)

A lot of water is wasted. (Muita água é

wasted (desperdiçado)
desperdiçada.)

Our brains are very complex. (Nossos

brain (cérebro)
cérebros são muito complexos.)

The patient is awake now. (O paciente está

awake (acordado)
acordado agora.)

Who’s responsible for this research? (Quem

research (pesquisa)
é responsável por esta pesquisa?)

We should always expand our knowledge.

knowledge (conhecimento) (Nós devemos sempre expandir nosso
conhecimento.)

Is your work schedule flexible? (Seu horário

schedule (cronograma; horário)
de trabalho é flexível?)

It’s very hot outside but it’s cool here.

cool (fresco; frio) (Está muito quente lá fora mas está fresco
aqui.)

environment (meio-ambiente; Do you care about the environment? (Você

ambiente) se importa com o meio-ambiente?)

If you are so sleepy, why don’t you take a nap?

nap (cochilo; soneca) (Se você está tão sonolento, por que você
não tira um cochilo?)

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Part 2 | Reading (Parte 2 | Leitura)

Task: Read the article with your teacher.

(Tarefa: Leia o artigo com seu professor.)

Sleep well, live well

We humans spend about one-third of our lives asleep. This may sound like a lot of time, but

it is not wasted.

Sleep helps us stay healthy, but it also helps our brains remember. Our brains need good

sleep to remember what we do and learn during the other two-thirds of our lives when we are

awake.

Also, a new research shows that a good night’s sleep makes us more intelligent. Scientist

Chiara Cirelli says that sleep is when human brains put the information that we learned while

awake into its general collection of knowledge.

However, the brain forgets unimportant details. This forgetting is important. It makes space

for new learning and new memories.

This is the result of more than ten years of research at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

The Mayo Clinic is a respected research hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. It gives these six

suggestions for getting a good night’s sleep:

1. Stay on schedule. Go to bed at approximately the same time every day.

2. Don’t go to bed hungry, don’t drink caffeine or alcohol, and don’t smoke before bed.

3. Create a calm sleep environment. Make your room as cool, quiet and dark as possible.

4. Limit daytime naps.

5. Exercise during the day.

6. Don’t bring your problems to bed. Don’t go to bed nervous or worried.

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Check your comprehension: Answer the questions below.

(Compreensão da leitura: Responda as perguntas abaixo.)

1. What does a good night's sleep help with?

(Com que uma boa noite de sono ajuda?)

2. Why is forgetting important?

(Por que esquecer é importante?)

3. What kind of substances should we avoid before going to bed?

(Que tipo de substâncias nós deveríamos evitar antes de ir para cama?)

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Part 3 | Speaking (Part 3 | Conversação)

Task 1: Answer the questions below. (Tarefa 1: Responda as perguntas abaixo.)

1. What do you think about the results of the new research?

(O que você acha sobre os resultados da nova pesquisa?)

2. How many hours do you sleep at night? Do you sometimes have problems to
sleep?
(Quantas horas você dorme à noite? Você às vezes tem problemas para
dormir?)

3. Which of the six suggestions do you think is the most important? Do you have
other suggestions?
(Qual das seis sugestões você pensa ser a mais importante? Você tem outras
sugestões?)

4. Do you have healthy sleeping habits?

(Você tem hábitos de sono saudáveis?)

5. How often do you take naps during the day?

(Que frequência você tira cochilos durante o dia?)

Task 2: Debate the statements below with your teacher. (Tarefa 2: Debata as declarações
abaixo com seu professor.)

1. To sleep 7 hours per night is enough.

(Dormir 7 horas por noite é suficiente.)

2. To sleep well is the most important thing to have a healthy life.

(Dormir bem é a coisa mais importante para ter uma vida saudável.)

3. Only lazy people take naps or sleep a lot in the morning.

(Apenas pessoas preguiçosas tiram cochilos ou dormem bastante de manhã.)

4. To sleep well doesn’t really make you more intelligent.

(Dormir bem não te faz realmente mais inteligente.)

5. To eat before going to bed gives you nightmares (bad dreams).

(Comer antes de ir para cama te dá pesadelos – sonhos ruins.)

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Part 4 | Vocabulary Practice (Parte 4 | Prática de Vocabulário)

Task: Use the words below to fill the blanks in the sentences. Don’t forget to use the proper
form of the word. (Use as palavras abaixo para preencher os espaços nas frases. Não esqueça
de usar a forma apropriada da palavra.)

research asleep awake brain knowledge

cool environment wasted nap schedule

1. I love taking a__________________ after lunch.

2. There is an important_________________about a new medication for premature babies.

3. My parents are_______________________. Don’t turn on the music.

4. The human____________________is a fragile organ.

5. What do you do to preserve the____________________________?

6. It’s midnight! Why are your children still_________________________?

7. Come on! Look at all this_________________________milk on the floor.

8. I received my new school_____________________yesterday. I have classes on Saturday

mornings now.

9. It may be___________________in the park. Take a light jacket with you.

10. My professor’s_______________________of History is really impressive.

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Part 5 | Writing (Parte 5 | Escrita)

Homework: Write an original sentence using each word from the vocabulary section.
(Lição de casa: Escreva uma frase original usando cada palavra da seção de vocabulário.)

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8. _______________________________________________________________

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9. _______________________________________________________________

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10._______________________________________________________________

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