Hello lovely, I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast.
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high-eiled scope.
Your bad night score.
Oh wow, did you get enough sleep last night?
Well, I finally got 8 hours of sleep.
It took me 3 days.
It's a joke.
Oh wow, shall we talk about sleep?
Let's talk about sleep.
Do you listen, did you get the joke?
I finally got 8 hours of sleep.
It took me 3 days, so I was like, I didn't sleep for 3 days, and then I slept for 8 hours.
Oh, huh, Rory, isn't it funny?
Hello, Arias, let's move on.
How many hours do you usually sleep at night?
I try to aim for a solid 8 hours, but in reality it's probably closer to 6 or 7 and a
half at all the tossing and turning and waking up in the middle of the night that frequently
happens.
Do you sometimes sleep during the day?
Oh, I'd almost never, whenever I've done that in the past I always felt really groggy
and unable to process or focus on things.
It's like being dead on your feet.
Definitely not for me.
What do you do if you can't get to sleep at night?
Well, I never used to do this until my friend, who is a doctor, a qualified doctor, suggested
it.
But if I pop a mild anti-histamine before bed then that does the trick, just fine.
I should say it's not a common occurrence for me, just every now and then.
Do you ever remember the dreams you've had while you were sleeping?
I sometimes have vague recollections, but nothing in detail.
I do remember when I've had a lucid dream though, I always feel amazing after one of those.
Similarly, if I've had a nightmare, while I might not remember the exact details, I usually
still feel ill at ease afterward.
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So Dillis, now we sleep at night, we go to sleep.
And Rory aims to sleep for a solid 8 hours.
Here solid means like for 8 hours, like exactly 8 hours.
Yeah, true?
Well, I think solid here means 8 hours without waking up, so it's like without interruptions.
Yeah, what you can say, like I usually sleep for air solid 7 hours or for a solid 5 hours.
Careful, an article air solid 5 hours, 7 hours.
But in reality, it's probably about like 6 hours, 7 hours, 7 hours and a half.
What's this, tossing and turning?
That's just when you move around in your beds because you're trying to get comfortable
or trying to relax.
And it's always tossing and turning, it's not turning and tossing.
It's a binomial.
Yeah, you toss and turn in your sleep.
Or before you go to sleep, before kind of you fall asleep, you do tossing and turning.
Like what verb do you use?
I think it's more you are tossing and turning because of the ING.
I'm tossing and turning.
Or you can say like, oh, usually I sleep for 7 hours with all the tossing and turning.
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night.
Okay?
Sometimes we sleep during the day.
It's called a nap.
So to have a nap.
Or as the yesterday.
Ooh, yeah.
And do we take a see-est to have a see-est to sleep the see-est to?
I don't know.
You'd need to talk to a spanish person.
But you definitely take a nap or have a nap.
So I'm assuming that you have a see-est to or take a see-est to.
So you can paraphrase the question.
The examiner asks, do you sometimes sleep during the day?
And you say, yeah, sometimes I take a nap.
Or I never take naps during the day.
I've always felt really groggy.
Groggy is like this drink grog.
Groggy.
Yeah.
I think what I mean is very tight.
Even worse, tired and unable to focus.
Like, that's groggy.
There's the scientific explanation for that word.
And Cambridge dictionary explanation is weak and unable to think clearly
or walk correctly, usually because of tightness or illness.
For example, I felt a little bit groggy after the operation.
For example, or when I woke up, I felt a little groggy.
And usually, I also feel this.
Yeah, actually I feel terribly groggy after I take a nap.
So that's why I never take naps.
It's like being dead on your feet.
Nice rowy.
Yeah, like a zombie.
Mm-hmm.
It's not a nice feeling.
I would, this is like, this is something I try to avoid a great deal.
So taking a nap during the day for me is like being dead on my feet.
Okay, like a zombie.
Like I feel like a zombie after taking a nap.
There you go, there is.
We fall asleep or we can't get to sleep.
It's just when you're lying in your bed for hours and you can't fall asleep.
Or for example, you can say that I fall asleep quickly.
Yeah, rowy?
Yeah, there is an expression for this.
What's the expression?
Out like a light.
Could you give us a sentence?
Yeah, well, it will not apply to me, but sometimes when you put your head on the pillow, you're
out like a light.
You are out like a light, yeah?
Mm-hmm.
So you're kind of like, you are out, you fall asleep quickly as if you turn off the light.
You are out like a light.
Yeah, do listen to that.
You can say, usually I don't have any problems falling to sleep.
Very often I'm out like a light.
Usually after a long walk or after going to the gym, I'm out like a light.
So I fall asleep very quickly.
Or you can say, sometimes I lie in the bed for hours.
So lie in bed, not lay, not lie in bed.
So rowy, what did your doctor suggest?
Well, he's not my doctor, he's just a friend who is a doctor.
If you take or if you cough, especially for pills, the nervous pop, if you take anti-histamines
before bed, then it will fit you to sleep or help you get to sleep.
Really?
So they're like pills?
Yes, I'm not suggesting that this is a long-term solution.
This is something that you do every now and then.
It's not like something you should be doing every single night because that is an indication
that there's something really, really wrong with you getting to sleep.
And you said like, if I pop, pop like if I take some pills?
Yeah.
Can you use like a pop with some pills?
If I pop some pills?
Yes.
It takes some medicine, pop some pills.
Pop pills.
Pop, pop, pop.
This does the trick, yeah, listen.
So rowy, just eats some medicine, yum, yum, yum.
You don't think I go yum, yum, yum, when I take my pen.
Yum, yum, yum.
Oh, yes, sleeping pills.
Mmm, delicious.
More like I should do this in order to sleep so I am not exhausted tomorrow.
There we go.
That's the logic.
Can I say if I pop some sleeping pills, they do the trick.
So I fall asleep instantly.
Eh, yes.
Yeah, if you don't do it often, it's not a common occurrence.
So I don't often do it.
It's not really common for me.
I kind of do it once in a while.
Yeah.
Every now and then.
Oh my, every now and then, it's another binomial.
It's almost like they occur all the time in English.
Yeah, so we discuss this with all the tossing and turning.
I usually sleep for seven hours every now and then.
I do it every now and then.
We have dreams.
And sometimes we remember our dreams while we are sleeping sometimes we don't.
How to paraphrase from a bomb?
You can say I have some recollections about my dreams.
Or I have some vague recollections, so I don't have like exact recollections, memories.
But it's not just for dreams.
You could use this for any time you have to remember something or you're asked a question
about remember some remembering something.
Oh, I have a vague recollection.
Yeah, for example, what about your one of your birthday parties in Moscow?
Give us a sense with recollections.
Well, I only ever had one really big birthday party in Moscow and I definitely have very
vague recollections of that because if they were deviled goal, we were drinking.
Also, you can say I do remember, like I really remember, I do remember when I have a nightmare
so a bad dream or when I had a lucid dream.
So lucid dream is when you can control your dream.
Yeah, it's when you when you just realize you're dreaming and then you do lots of crazy
things because you haven't what's the word you haven't no, it's not you haven't done
anything.
You just you can control things.
I don't understand how lucid dreaming works.
I'm not sure anybody does.
Also, you can use the present perfect here.
I do remember when I've had a nightmare.
I have had a nightmare or I do remember when I've had a lucid dream.
I usually still feel at ease.
So to feel at ease, ease or ease.
Feel at ease, ease.
Yeah.
Uncomfortable.
Ah, okay.
So not just at ease, but feel at ease.
Is it a set phrase to feel ill at ease?
Because we have an expression to feel at ease.
Yeah.
And so to feel at ease would be the opposite, I suppose.
Yes, there is not.
Be ill, ill like illness, yeah, to be ill at ease, see to proficiency.
And it's an idiom, Dellis, and allow is to be worried and not relaxed.
I know.
But not vocabulary.
If only there was a course on idioms that we were working on.
Yes, Dellis, now we are creating a course on idioms for you.
Wow.
I know.
So for example, so be ill at ease.
He seemed ill at ease and didn't look himself.
Okay.
For example, I've just had a horrible nightmare and I still feel ill at ease.
Roy, could you give us a sentence about you?
I still feel, I usually feel ill at ease after a nightmare.
What about after an exam?
Can you feel ill at ease or after a massive party?
Most people feel at ease after an exam because their stress has gone away.
It's done, no?
Yeah, you see, the expression is, feel at ease is actually good.
It's like relaxed.
Oh, I felt completely at ease.
So I was relaxed, you know, I was happy.
Like after the interview, I felt at ease.
Not ill at ease, okay?
Roy, what does it mean if I say I'm a light sleeper?
Does it not mean that you have, like, it's really easy for someone to wake you up?
I think so, yeah.
Like maybe, do you listen to you?
Are you a light sleeper?
Because kind of like, are you sleeping?
If there are any noises, you can have a, and you just wake up, you know?
If like someone is snoring, next to you, you also wake up.
But if I'm not a light sleeper, if nothing can wake me up, even like, I don't know.
He pose, elephants can't wake me up.
Who am I?
What kind of sleeper am I?
I guess you'd sleep like a log, don't you?
Or like a tree?
Can I say, I'm a heavy sleeper.
Oh, yeah, you could say that actually, couldn't you?
Heavy sleep.
Heavy sleeper.
Yeah, sleep like a log is like when you are tired and then you kind of sleep deeply.
Like I slept like a log, like a piece of wood.
Yeah.
Unable to get up by yourself.
Like to be a heavy sleeper when nobody can wake you up and to be a light.
Sleeper when like everything can, like even the slightest noise wakes you.
Okay?
Like I'm such a heavy sleeper.
Like nothing could wake me up.
Right.
So shall we rep up with a joke?
Let's wrap up with the joke.
So you've been waiting for a joke.
I have a, what?
Nothing tells the joke, it's fine.
What does James Bond do before he goes to sleep?
Oh God, what?
He goes undercover.
Oh, there is no cover.
What is a cover when we talk about sleep?
Rory, what's a cover?
It's the thing you pull over yourself to stay warm at night.
Yeah, so you have your bed and you have a cover.
Like to cover yourself, okay?
And in this joke we have James Bond and he's undercover.
Rory, could you explain this?
Well, what does it mean to be undercover?
If you're undercover, it means you're a spy on a secret mission.
I don't feel any enthusiasm Rory in your experience.
Because I don't like the joke.
Why that is good.
Come on.
I like how into the joke you are.
That's nice.
But I know.
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
They'll listen to it.
It is pretty dreadful, yes.
Thank you for listening to the episode.
Bye.
Hey, bye.
How many hours do you usually sleep at night?
I try to aim for a solid eight hours, but in reality it's probably closer to six or seven
and a half at all the tossing and turning and waking up in the middle of the night that
frequently happens.
Do you sometimes sleep during the day?
Oh, I'd almost never.
Whenever I've done that in the past, I always felt really groggy and just unable to process
or focus on things.
It's like being dead on your feet.
Definitely not for me.
What do you do if you can't get to sleep at night?
Well, I never used to do this until my friend, who is a doctor, a qualified doctor, suggested
it.
But if I pop a mild anti-histamine before bed, then that does the trick just fine.
I should say it's not a common occurrence for me just every now and then.
Do you ever remember the dreams you've had while you were sleeping?
I sometimes have vague recollections, but nothing in detail.
I do remember when I've had a lucid dream though, I always feel amazing after one of those.
Similarly, if I've had a nightmare, while I might not remember the exact details, I usually
still feel ill at ease afterward.
