The document discusses the body clock and how there are multiple clocks in the modern world, including social jetlag which occurs when a person's social schedule does not match their natural body clock. It prompts the reader to watch a video about this topic, then asks questions to check their understanding and have them define related lexical items. The document stresses that it is high time people synchronized their lifestyle with their natural body clock.
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Social jetlag
2. Would you say youre an early bird
or a night owl? Why?
3. Howd you define the body clock?
Share your views with a partner.
4. Watch the video and check whether
you were right or wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ylqK-aPX8
5. Based on the video answer the
following questions:
a) How many clocks are there in the
modern world?
b) Which are they?
c)How do they work?
8. Watch the second part of the video again and try to
define the following lexical items:
a) to presume
b) likely
c) huge
d) sunrise
e) sunset
f) actually
g) chubby
9. Watch the second part of the video again and try to
define the following lexical items:
a) to presume = to think that something is true
because it is likely, although you
cannot be certain
b) likely = probably going to happen,
or probably true
c) huge = enormous
10. Watch the second part of the video again and try to
define the following lexical items:
d) sunrise
e) sunset
11. Watch the second part of the video
again and try to define the following
lexical items:
f) actually Used for emphasizing what is really
true or what really happened;
= in reality
g) chubby
12. What are the consequences of living
against our body clock?
13. Based on the video, what should we
have already done?
What was the expression used to
convey that?
Its high time
14. Whats the idea expressed by its
high time?
a) a compliment
b) a condition
c) a piece of criticism
Its high time + past tense
or
Its time + past tense
15. Do you suffer from social jetlag? Tell
your partner a situation which
would prove it.