Welcome to a new episode of english vocabulary booster.
My name is lara and i'm a salsa certified english teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new english words or expressions so that you too, can start speaking like a native.
So let's get learning and welcome.
Let's begin with the story.
This week's topic is sleep.
My friend Sarah and I had a sleepover last night.
It was so much fun.
We talked for hours, watched YouTube together, painted our nails.
You know, the classic stuff you do at sleepovers.
Well, at around 1 in the morning, we decided to hit the hay because we were both pretty tired.
Asher probably mentioned we were sleeping in the same bed because at two, something woke me up.
Now, I wasn't sure what it was, but then I heard it again.
It was coming from Sarah.
She was talking in her sleep.
I tried to wake her up, but she was sound asleep, so I simply pushed her, maybe a bit too hard because she fell on the floor.
She woke up confused and came back to bed while I pretended to sleep.
I didn't fall asleep right away because I felt a bit guilty.
But hey, at least she stopped talking, right?
Ooh, that was kind of mean.
Not exactly a great friend.
Okay, let's listen to today's expressions.
Let's begin with number one, which is sleepover.
My friend Sarah and I had a sleepover.
If you have a sleepover, do you sleep alone or with friends?
If you have a sleepover, you're sleeping with a friend or more than one friend.
And where do you sleep when having a sleepover and what do you do?
So when having a sleepover, you sleep at a friend's house.
Now, if you're the one hosting the sleepover, obviously you sleep at your own place, right?
In your house, in your bedroom.
But your friends come from their houses to sleep at your place.
Now, what do you do?
It depends.
You can have sleepovers are very popular among girls, especially.
So one of some of the classic things that you do as sleepovers is gossiping and chatting and like talking about boys painting your nails and girly stuff like that.
But boys can have sleepovers too.
I'm not really sure what they do.
Maybe they talk about trucks and stuff.
I don't I'm not entirely sure, honestly.
Who usually has sleepovers?
Young people or adults?
Well, it's usually young people.
We're talking maybe like 8, 9, 10 years old up until like high school.
But if you're an adult, you wouldn't call it a sleepover.
It'd be kind of weird.
Did you have sleepovers when you were younger and what did you do?
Not as a child.
I didn't have a lot of sleepovers as a child.
When I was living in Chicago, I did have a few sleepovers with my friend, Laura.
Where I went to her house like maybe a few nights.
And it was a lot of fun.
And we would just talk and talk and talk.
I love my friend Laura.
But yeah, mostly like talking about boys, talking about life.
Watching a movie was also a thing.
And maybe eating snacks and stuff.
Expression number two, hit the hay.
We decided to hit the hay.
If you say you hit the hay, does it mean you wake up or you go to bed?
Hitting the hay means going to bed.
Now, be careful.
Can you replace entirely the expression go to bed?
Oh, yes.
Last night I hit the hay at... or every night I hit the hay...
Well, yes and no.
I mean, normally it's used to say you're going to go to bed right away.
Okay, imagine you're tired and you say, oh, I'm tired.
I'm just going to go hit the hay.
That is the most frequent way to use it.
Are you going to hit the hay after listening to this episode?
I hope not.
I mean, actually, I'm already in bed.
Fun fact.
I do record in bed because it's more comfortable.
But I'm not going to go to bed, meaning I'm not going to go to sleep.
I'm not going to go hit the hay after this episode, because here in Kuala Lumpur it's 930 in the morning.
So just woken up.
No, not going to hit the hay after this episode.
But maybe some of you are.
Maybe you're listening to this at night and right after this episode finishes, you're going to hit the hay.
Expression number three, talk in your sleep.
She was talking in her sleep.
Is talking in your sleep something you do consciously or unconsciously?
When you talk in your sleep, you don't know you're talking in your sleep.
So you're doing it unconsciously.
And do you always clearly understand when someone talks in their sleep?
No, a lot of times it's a lot of mumbling like and you can't really make out, you can't really understand what the person is saying.
Do you sometimes talk in your sleep?
Maybe you don't know, because obviously you don't know if you talk in your sleep, unless somebody's told you.
Quite a few people have told me that I do talk in my sleep.
But most people cannot understand what I say.
Thankfully, maybe.
I don't know.
Maybe I should be happy about that.
But this one time was really embarrassing.
I woke up in the morning and my sister was like, Lara, what were you dreaming about last night?
I was like, why?
And she said, well, you were talking in your sleep and you kept saying like all these bad words.
And that was so embarrassing because I never swear in front of my sister.
And I don't know, I just felt like so embarrassed for what she had seen.
And I still don't know what I was dreaming about.
But yeah, I do talk in my sleep.
Expression number four, be sound asleep.
I try to wake her up, but she was sound asleep.
If you are sound asleep, are you sleeping deeply or not?
To be sound asleep means to be sleeping very, very deeply.
And if you're sound asleep, can you be easily woken up?
No, it's not a light sleep where, you know, any noise can wake you up.
No, you are in deep sleep.
So maybe even if they shake you.
Or if they call your name, maybe it's going to take you a little bit of time to wake up because you're sound asleep.
Expression number five, fall asleep.
I didn't fall asleep right away.
Does falling asleep happen before sleeping or after sleeping?
It happens before sleeping.
It's a moment when you feel like you're getting really tired.
You start to close your eyes.
You know, that's when you're falling asleep right before actually sleeping.
How long does it take you to fall asleep?
Lately, forever.
Unless I'm like super, super tired.
It takes me probably 20 to 30 minutes to fall asleep.
It's crazy.
I just can't.
And do you ever fall asleep while watching TV?
You know that feeling when you're like super cozy on the couch, you're watching a movie and maybe you like it, but you're so comfortable and you just want to close your eyes and go to bed and sleep.
And so you do fall asleep eventually.
I do that a lot, unfortunately.
Pretty much anytime I watch a movie at night, I end up falling asleep, and my boyfriend hates me for that.
But it's just, it's so nice to fall asleep on the couch, isn't it?
Waking up and going to bed after, not so much.
Falling asleep on the couch, hmm, pretty sweet.
And that is it for today.
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