Pre-reading questions:
- What time do you usually sleep every night?
- Do you have any sleeping habits?
Vocabulary:
- health /helth/
- adult /uh-DUHLT/
- between /bih-TWEEN/
- believe /bih-LEEV/
- possibility /pos-uh-BIL-i-tee/
[noun] the state of being well
She always prays for her mother’s good health.
[noun] a person or animal that has grown to full size and strength
Adults should be more responsible for their actions.
[adverb] in the period of time that separates two different times or events
The meeting should start between 10 and 10:30 in the morning.
[verb] to think that something is true, correct, or real
She believes in aliens.
[noun] a chance that something may happen or be true
There’s a possibility that it will rain because it is cloudy today.
A new study recommended that a regular sleep schedule helps to have a better metabolic health. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) had a survey of more than 2,000 adults from 45 to 84 years old. Each male and female wore a wrist-watch tracker device that recorded their sleep activity for a week in between 2010 and 2013. The study showed that for every one hour difference in the number of hours of sleep every day, there was a 27% chance to have metabolic diseases. It was believed that adults who had the highest difference in their bedtime and sleep period have more possibilities to have diabetes, stroke, and heart attack. The authors of the study suggested that sleeping at the same time every day may have good effects on metabolic health.
True or False:
- Less than 2,000 adults participated in the survey.
- The study recommended to sleep for 8 hours every day to have a better metabolic health.
- In the article, if someone doesn’t have a regular sleep schedule, he or she might have diabetes, stroke and heart attack.
- The participants of the survey wore wrist-watch tracker device for 14 days.
- The participants of the survey were aged 45 and 84 years old only.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| health | adult | between | believe | possibility |
- There is a _____ that it will snow in Japan tonight.
- Do you _____ in angels?
- _____ should be a role model to younger ones.
- He traveled to America _____ 2007 and 2010.
- Please take good care of your _____.