I'm not a morning person

a late riser a morning person beyond me

get going good-for-nothing have a lie-in

1. He is the type of person who feels good in the morning.

2. He finds it difficult to start becoming active in the morning.

3. He is the type of person who wakes up late.

4. He is a lazy and useless person.

5. It’s impossible for me to understand why he quit his job.

6. I don’t work tomorrow, so I think I will get up later than usual.

​Rephrase the following sentences by replacing the underlined parts with a suitable idiom:

1. Are you a morning person or a late riser?

2. Do you find it difficult to get going in the morning?

3. How often do you have a lie-in at weekends?

4. Can you function well with less than 8 hours of sleep?

5. Have you ever had trouble falling asleep because your mind was racing?

​Answer the questions:

I can't function without my 8 hours of sleep every night. I always go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, even on weekends. Otherwise, I feel groggy and unproductive throughout the day. Last week, I had a really important presentation at work, and I couldn't sleep the night before. Needless to say, the presentation didn't go as well as I hoped.

​Which opinion can you relate to?

I am a morning person through and through! I love waking up early, getting some work done, and going for a run before most people are even awake. Going to bed late means I'll miss out on all the morning peace and quiet. I used to go to bed late all the time during college, but now that I've developed better sleeping habits, I feel so much happier and more energized.

I feel like I'm caught in between being a morning person and a night owl. I tend to go to bed late because I like spending some time alone at night, but then I also struggle to wake up early in the morning. Sometimes I try to sleep early, but then end up lying there for hours, scrolling through social media. It's such a hard habit to break!

I am absolutely against the idea of forcing someone to conform to one type of sleeping habit. Everyone has their own natural rhythm, and who are we to tell them when they should sleep? My creative energy always comes alive at night, so I tend to stay up very late working on personal projects. Some of my best ideas have come to me at 3 in the morning!

• to drop off

• not sleep a wink

• toss and turn

• wide awake

• have an early/a late night
  
  

Study new vocabulary:

1. Even with all the noise outside, I ___ (not) last night.
2. The coffee I drank before bed kept me ___ for hours.

3. Throughout the night, I ___, unable to find a comfortable position.

4. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he would ___ into a deep sleep.

5. Despite having ___, I woke up feeling groggy and exhausted.

6. To avoid feeling tired in the morning, I like to ___ at around 10 pm every night.

​Fill in the blanks:

Adjective

noun

Adverb

verb

adjective

adverb

sentence

a perfect speech

to speak perfectly

what?

how?

extremely tired

surprisingly quietly

Luckily, there was ...

• amazingly

• briefly

• coincidentally

• confidently

• conveniently

• fortunately

• gradually

• incredibly

• inevitably

• miraculously

• oddly

• nearly

• obviously

• particularly

• predictably

• sadly

• surprisingly

• thoughtfully

• thoroughly

• typically

• understandably