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Vocabulary: Good night ...

Human beings and animals spend (at least!) half of their lives asleep.

Sleep is necessary for our bodies and our minds to function properly. It's a means to recuperate strength. Many words and expressions are attached to that very important activity. 

To set the alarm for ...	The alarm has gone off	To sleep through one's alarm                    = to oversleep
To put to sleep	To rub one's eyes	To tuck someone in
To take a rest	To doze	To yawn
To take a nap      = To have forty winks	To have a cat nap	A Saturday lie-in

                              A Saturday lie-in!                                                                        Lazy, or wise ? 

For kids, getting up (just as "going to bed") may be quite difficult, but it's always pleasant to feel a soft stroke on your cheek and hear "Waky, waky! Rise and shine..."

-  I, heard it many many times... and the sun was seldom shining! -    )  

When going to bed, toddlers are often read to, told stories or sung lullabies. 

When kids become teenagers, waking up becomes difficult and happens much later... 

Dawn= Sunrise	An alarm (-clock)	A clock-radio
An early bird	A night-owl	The sandman
A sleepless night	A sleepwalker	Insomnia

"Sleeping, dreaming..." or not! 

 "To die: to sleep; no more...To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; for in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?" (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

To feel sleepy	To daydream	Saying Good Night!
To be fast/ sound asleep	To sleep like a log	To snore
To toss and turn	... not to sleep a wink	A nightmare
To be a heavy sleeper	To wake with a start	To have a dream

After a restful sleep (or not restful!) you have to wake kids up to take them to school or to their activities, or simply wake up to go out of bed and go about your business. 

                                                                                                        "The natural way of waking up" (light and sound)

Let's remember that you can be an "early bird" (waking up and working early...) or a night owl", going to bed (and working) very late; sometimes, they do it because they couldn't sleep with an unfinished work. 

Let's also remember that the number of hours of sleep you need varies  according to people and their ages. 

I do  hope you won't fall asleep in the middle of the exercise... and that this vocabulary will be useful to you.  Good Luck! 

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'Then stop risingrubbingwinkinglying inI don't know your eyes. You look as if you couldn't rub your eyeswake you uphave a dreamkeep your eyes opensleep throughI don't know.'
'I've wake you up atset my alarm forfeeling sleepy onput my alarm atI don't know seven o'clock to make sure I'll be on time for Jenny' s party.'
'7 o'clock! Oh dear! It's too early! The party's at 3 pm... I'm sure you'll sleep walk're yawningrub your eyessleep throughI don't know your alarm... but don't worry, I'll wake you upread to yousing a lullabyput you to bedI don't know for your dentist's appointment at 10!

' Early birdWaky, wakyNighty nightI don't know Rise and shine! ' Oh no Mom, I didn't have a dreamdaydreamclose my eyesleep a winkI don't know. May I have a sleepinga resta catnapa lie inI don't know ? I'm so tired...'

' Well! Little girl, I'm sure you've slept like a logsleepwalkedhad a nightmareI don't know... First, we'll go the the dentist's and then, you can take a naphave a lyinghave a dreamI don't know or just go to bedcatch the wormhave a restsleep a winkI don't know before going to Jenny's.

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 * Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.