Name: Talking about sleep ? ?️ Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2025-11-24T13:14:52.000Z
Duration: 5 min 30 s
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We'll be talking about our sleep habits and also our dreams.

So, Neil, you said that you didn't sleep well last night, so that's not so lovely.

How many hours do you sleep at night, Neil?

Well, if I sleep less than eight hours, then I'm exhausted.

Like you after last night because you didn't sleep very well.

What time do you usually go to bed, Neil?

I usually go earlier, but about 10 o'clock.

Yeah, I do, but I find it quite hard to remember my dreams.

But sometimes I have nightmares and then they are easier to remember.

So I might wake up in the middle of the night and feel a bit scared or worried.

Can you tell us about a strange dream that you've had?

Yeah, I had a weird dream a couple of nights ago.

I was at my auntie's house in the kitchen and then suddenly the floor was very wet and there were three robbers that were going to come and open the front door,

so I had to run across the wet kitchen and lock the front door.

Yeah, that sounds like a really scary dream.

So a scary dream was can call a nightmare.

So I had a nightmare, a bad dream the other night.

And I was in a foreign country, I think somewhere like Italy, a European place,

and I couldn't find my family and I was running around the streets, trying to find them and I couldn't find them.

But then, after a while of looking around the streets, I saw people in my family and I felt much better.

So it sounds like it started as a nightmare, but then it kind of went into a dream.

Yeah, it was just a normal, happy dream by the end.

Well, I noticed there that you used the past simple and the past continuous to describe your dream.

You said, "I was running around," which is the past continuous.

And then you said, "I found them," which was the past simple.

And this is really common language that we use when we're describing things in the past, like dreams.

So we've talked about how long we sleep for and we've talked about dreams and nightmares.

I don't think I do, but my wife says that I do.

Let's have a look at the language we learned in this conversation.

We learnt nightmare, which is a bad or scary dream.

And we learnt a way to talk about dreams using the past simple and the past continuous.

For example, you dreamt that you were running around trying to find your family and then you found them.

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