Top 10 Words for Talking about Sleep in English
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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we’re
going to talk about ten words for
talking about sleep let’s go
to wake up the first word is to wake up
to wake up is to open your eyes probably
in your bed or the place where you are
sleeping to wake up is to to become
conscious to become awake every day you
wake up presumably hopefully in a
sentence I woke up three times last
night to get up to get out of bed all
right the next word is to get up or to
get out of bed so that means to
physically move your body from your bed
out of bed to stand up from your bed to
get out of your bed we say to get up or
to get out of bed in a sentence I got up
at 8 o’clock this morning to snooze the
next word is to snooze so we have to
snooze and alarm and also to snooze so
to snooze means to take a short sleep to
have a short sleeping time or to snooze
and alarm is when your alarm goes off in
the morning you have a button most alarm
clocks have some button you can press so
the alarm will turn on again in like you
know five or 10 minutes or something
so to snooze an alarm is to like to ask
your alarm to wake you up again a few
minutes later that’s to snooze so we
have to snooze an alarm and to snooze
meaning like a short light sleep in a
sentence I always snooze my alarm at
least once that is usually true to
oversleep the next word is to oversleep
to oversleep means to sleep too much or
to sleep late actually no it doesn’t
mean to sleep late to sleep late means
just to sleep until a late time in the
oversleep means sleeping beyond the time
you wanted to get up so for example if
my alarm is set for eight o’clock but I
wake up at nine o’clock I overslept I
slept beyond my wake-up time so we can
use oversleep to talk about times when
you sleep too much you sleep more than
your body needs you to so maybe your
body needs depending on the person like
six to nine hours or so but if you sleep
like 14 hours we can say that’s over
sleeping you’re sleeping too much hmm
that’s the nuance here in a sentence I
overslept on my first day of work nap
the next word is nap nap is a short
sleep so a nap is maybe thirty minutes
one hour just a short sleep a short rest
so a lot of people will take a nap in
the afternoon for example or maybe
children actually take naps for example
in preschool or when they’re very very
young they have a an afternoon nap a
short sleep like hmm yeah just a like an
hour or so I imagine in a sentence I
love naps actually I do like naps I
don’t like naps because when I take a
nap
it becomes asleep it’s always like I
wake up four hours later and I’m like
okay well I’ve destroyed my sleep
schedule dream the next word is dream
dreams so dreams are those those visions
those images you see those experiences
it seems like you have when you are
asleep in a sentence I always have weird
dreams nightmare so the next word is
nightmare nightmare is a word which
means bad dream or scary dream negative
dream so children maybe have nightmares
a lot they wake up crying or they’re
really upset by nightmares monsters
terrifying things happening and so on in
a sentence do you ever have nightmares
to go to bed the next word is to go to
bed so before we talked about to get up
or to get out of bed this is the
opposite to go to bed means to get in
your bed - to try to go to sleep to go
to bed
in a sentence I usually go to bed fairly
late to hit the hay to hit the sack the
next expression is kind of a I don’t
know a slang expression we have to hit
the hay and to hit the sack these both
mean to go to bed they both mean to try
to fall asleep but we just use them in
more casual situations the image here of
hitch the hay is with your body hitting
hay like laying down in hay I believe
historically because hay was used to
stuff things that people slept on so
that’s why we have this expression to
hit the hay with your body
same thing for to hit the sack so a sack
full of something soft to sleep on is
where this expression comes from in a
sentence I think I’m gonna hit the hay
to fall asleep the next expression it is
to fall asleep to fall asleep you’re in
bed and you finally you lose
consciousness you you stop being aware
you are asleep in that moment we say you
fall asleep in a sentence it takes me a
long time to fall asleep alright okay so
that’s the end those are ten words that
you can use to talk about sleep if you
have an interesting dream or an
interesting nightmare make sure and
leave it in a comment that sounds like
it would be a really funny a really
interesting thing to read about so if
you have something memorable leave it in
a comment so we can all check it out and
compare our dreams that’s kind of funny
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