Key Concepts & Exercises: Sleep, History, Culture, and Technology

Do You Sleep Enough? (Module 09)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: A good night's sleep is crucial from childhood to adulthood.
• FALSE: Mothers were the primary caregivers for youngsters, but this doesn't directly relate to daytime sleepiness.

Vocabulary:

• Tackle sleeplessness
• Amount
• Critical

Grammar/Phrases:

• Often / At
• Who / Than / From
• Their / Spent
• Year

The Travels of Marco Polo (Module 08)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: "The Travels of Marco Polo" was written while he was in a prison cell in Genoa in 1298.
• FALSE: Much of what Polo wrote has been questioned by historians and geographers.

Vocabulary:

• Account
• Grim
• Alien
• Prevalence

Grammar/Phrases:

• Who / Was
• Was Governed / Ruled
• With / Whose
• Marco Polo said that he had only told half of what he had seen.

Where Does Dracula Come From? (Module 07)

Comprehension Questions:

• TRUE: Stoker, the author, drew inspiration from regions like Moldova and the Carpathians.
• FALSE: Dracula, the vampire, jumped to land at Whitby in the shape of a huge dog.

Vocabulary:

• Imposing
• Engaged
• Appears
• Habit

Grammar/Phrases:

• Although / Than
• Had been / What
• Deals / Is explained
• What else she had seen.

Should the State Tell Us What to Eat and Drink? (Module 06)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: "We eat on the street to a degree almost unknown anywhere else."
• FALSE: "A sociologist told me that half of our homes no longer have a dining table."

Vocabulary:

• Inquiry
• Almost
• Entire
• Nasty

Grammar/Phrases:

• Eating / For
• Ate / Loaves
• Buy / Twice
• Her something else to eat.

I'm Working From Home (Module 05)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: For the Spanish, a major reason for Homeworking...
• TRUE: Fewer British people would like the opportunity to do more work from home.

Vocabulary:

• Choosing
• Study
• Opportunity
• Switch

Grammar/Phrases:

• Have been working / In
• For / To
• Accepted / Were taken
• For many workers, Homeworking would reduce costs.

A Relative Difference (Module 04)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: This similarity has led chimp experts to extend certain considerations to chimpanzees.
• FALSE: Development and destruction have reduced something (context missing) in the last century to less than one-tenth of that now.

Vocabulary:

• Link
• Skull
• Leap forward
• Seemingly

Grammar/Phrases:

• If you do not ask him a question, he will not speak to you.
• I had to do it at once.
• Difficult for us to do.
• Is being investigated by some policemen.

Smile, You Are on Camera (Module 03)

Comprehension Questions:

• TRUE: Surveillance is once again growing.
• FALSE: If the program doesn't find something, it is handled by the police department.

Vocabulary:

• Implement
• Radio
• High
• Argue

Grammar/Phrases:

• Were / That
• Had / What
• Was tested / For
• Who / Charging

Lunar Embassy (Module 02)

Comprehension Questions:

• FALSE: "But bring your own air - and rocket."
• FALSE: So far, he said, items are priced at 19.95 apiece.

Vocabulary:

• Views
• Roaring
• Prohibited
• Grateful

Grammar/Phrases:

• Have bought / But
• Signed / With
• Who / What
• Selling / Better than