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  • Get in your pajamas, get some cocoa, it's time to do sleep vocabulary.

  • First, let's talk about being tired.

  • There're different ways to say you're tired.

  • You can say, "I'm tired," "I'm sleepy," or if you're very, very tiredmaybe from work or being at the gym all dayyou can say "I'm exhausted."

  • Or, if you want to be very, very British about it, you can say, "I'm knackered."

  • Say it with me, "I'm knackered."

  • Ah, I'm knackered!

  • And then, to say "I'm going to bed," "I'm going to sleep," "I'm going to get some shuteye."

  • "To go to bed", "to go to sleep." Well, it depends [on] how you go to sleep.

  • For example, you could just fall asleep like a normal person.

  • But, for example, if you come home from work, you're knackered,

  • ... and you fall asleep very fast,

  • Boom!

  • ... this is called "crashing" or "crashing out".

  • I got home and I just crashed or crashed out.

  • Or you can say "I passed out."

  • Or, if you want to be really cool, "I PTFOd."

  • You can probably guess what that F means.

  • Or, if it's in the middle of the day, and you're like a granddad, and you just want to have 20 minutes of sleep, you can say "nap".

  • I'm going to nap; I'm going to have a nap.

  • Or, again, if you want to be very, very British, you can say, "I'm going to have a doze."

  • Or, for Spanish speakers, you're going to be very happy because we also say, "have a siesta".

  • Everything sounds better in Spanish.

  • And then, when you're asleep, you can dream or have a dream.

  • To talk about dreams.

  • (Dreams)

  • If you have the same dream again and again, like the same situation, the same place, the same thing happens, this is called a "recurring dream".

  • My recurring dream is, I'm always in my high school, and I'm late for class, and I don't know which class I'm going to.

  • [It] Drives me crazyat least once a week I have this.

  • Anyway, I'm ramblingwhat's your recurring dream?

  • Also, you can have a nightmare,

  • you can snore,

  • you can sleep talk,

  • sleep walk.

  • Also, what kind of sleeper are you?

  • A heavy sleeper never wakes up for anything.

  • Whereas a light sleeper, even a mouse fart will wake you up.

  • Or, if you can't get to sleep, you can say you have insomnia.

  • And you're wide awake all the time.

  • Next, how about waking up?

  • When your alarm makes a noise, we say it "goes off".

  • So, for example, "My alarm went off."

  • If you wake up at 6 a.m.,

  • this is called "at the crack of dawn".

  • Too early; no one can function at this time of day.

  • Go back to bed, man.

  • What if you wake up and you missed your alarm, you're late?

  • - No, no, no, no, no.... - With this, you can say "I overslept."

  • I've overslept loads of times.

  • I went to work once, and I didn't have time for a shower; I just went in to work and everyone was really polite about it,

  • they were like, "Yeah, man, you don't smell."

  • Or how about this example?

  • If you wake up and you look at the clock, and you see it's afternoon.

  • But then you remember, "Hey, it's Saturday! I don't work today; I'm going to sleep more."

  • So, you could say, "I'm going to sleep in."

  • Or you "have a lie in".

  • Now, what's the difference between "wake up" and "get up"?

  • "Wake up" means to open your eyes.

  • "Get up" means to physically get out of bed and start your day.

  • Good night; sweet dreams.

  • See you in the next class!

  • I'm drinking beer with a bear.

  • Beer. Bear.

  • Beer. Bear.

  • I'm drinking beer with a bear.

  • Hello?

  • Can I help you?

  • Are you the doctor?

  • Doctor? Yes, I... I am... a doctor, yes.

Get in your pajamas, get some cocoa, it's time to do sleep vocabulary.

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