2017年4月2日 星期日

#4 Six Minute English

topic : Is modern life making us tired.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-160114

In today's society, people can't without electronic products.For example: Radio, television, Internet, computer and intelligent mobile phone.Although these electronic products make our life more convenient, but also influences our sleep quality. Professor from the university of California said: in the absence of any electronic products in the society, compared with the modern society, sleep does't have different with us, but they seldom have the problem of insomnia. The solution is proposed by Professor Kevin Morgan:'cognitive behavioural therapy', in the hearts of irregular time to repeat the'the' read, you can block the idea of insomnia.
Because of the popularization of the Internet, make modern life more and more convenient, but also led to a lot of people narcolepsy,restless legs syndrome, somnambulism the symptoms of sleep, although the Internet is very convenient, but we should't have the order reversed, health is the most important!

words:
1.sleep like a log:sleep very well, without being woken by any noises.
2.snore[v./n.]:to breathe in a noisy way through your mouth and nose while you are asleep.
3.insomnia[n.]:the condition of being unable to sleep, over a period of time.


1 則留言:

  1. We benefit from technology but also suffer from it, do we...Whey not create the link of this episode to your blog. If the readers are interested in it, they can have an easy access to the episode on BBC.

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