🎧 Listening comprehension: How sleep can improve your immunity
🔍Vocabulary:
- irrational: not logical or reasonable
- hyperreactive: extremely active
- conduct: organize and carry out
- sleep-deprived: suffering from a lack of sleep
- amygdala: one of two parts of the brain that affect how people feel emotions
- centerpiece: the most important part of something
- appropriate: suitable or proper in the circumstances
- moderate: neither small nor large in size, amount, degree, or strength
- prefrontal cortex: the front part of the brain
- executive: relating to or having the power to put plans or actions into effect
- top-down: starting from the highest levels
- evolved: having developed through a gradual process
- sever: to break or separate, especially by cutting
- accelerator: to make something happen or progress more quickly
- pedal: each of a pair of foot-operated levers
- regulatory: controlling
- brake: a device that makes a vehicle go slower or stop
- unbuckle: unfasten
- integrity: honesty
- turn out: happen
- nocturnal: relating to the night
- soothing: making you feel calm
- balm: an oily substance rubbed into the skin to reduce pain
- heal: to make or become well again
- wound: injury
- convalescence: recovery
- cope: to deal successfully with a difficult situation
👄Read aloud: Read each sentence out loud
🗪 Roleplaying:
- What is "hyperreactive"?
- What did they study about several years ago?
- Who was taken for their study?
- What is the "amygdala"?
- What is "sleep-deprived"?
- How different about the amygdala between people who had a full night of sleep and the ones who had a lack of sleep?
- What is the "prefrontal cortex"?
- What's the role of the prefrontal cortex?
- How different about the prefrontal cortex is between people who had a full night of sleep and the ones who had a lack of sleep?
- Why does sleep act almost like a nocturnal soothing balm?
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