Vocabulary

Sleep

• Idioms

Match the idioms to their definitions:

1.recharge batteries            (a) sleep soundly  
2.shuteye                          (b) very early in the morning
3.not sleep a wink               (c) sleep (informal)
4.catnap                           (d) short sleep
5.hit the hay                      (e) go to bed
6.sleep like a log                  (f) not sleep at all
7.toss and turn                   (g) be constantly moving in bed

8.beauty sleep                    (h)   unable to sleep
9. wide awake                    (i) regain energy by sleeping or
10. crack of dawn                        resting
                                       (j) fully asleep
                                       (k) sleep before midnight or as recommended by                 health professionals                                 (about 8 hours for adults) to preserve youthful looks)

• Choose the correct idiom for the context.

1. It was hard to get a selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn in this hospital room with constant visitors and phone calls to the rest of the patients in my ward.

2. We spent all Sunday outdoors: we swam, rode a motorboat and went on a three-hour hike around the lake. My daughter selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn that night.

3. With itchy mosquito bites all over his body, he selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn all night.

4. There was power in the building, so we decided to selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn early.

5. I felt drowsy after driving for 2 hours on that hot and humid summer day. I pulled my car over to the curb and had a selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn for 10 minutes.

6. We left for the airport at midnight. The plane took off at 2:30 a.m. and landed at 5:00 a.m. There was a crying baby and snoring man beside me on the plane. I could selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn last night!

7. Caroline had a nightmare tonight. She lay in bed selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn being unable to forget her bad dream.

8. Having worked as a baker for 20 years, he’s used to getting up at the selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn.

9. Tonight I’ll go to bed early. I need my selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawnto look rested at tomorrow’s party.

10. I need to selecttossed and turnedbeauty sleepnot sleep a winkhit the hayslept like a logcat napwide-awakerecharge my batteriesshuteyecrack of dawn after the sleepless night.

Dreams

  Almighty      brotherhood      Catholics      character      city      color      dream      every      former      free      freedom      Gentiles      God's      hands      judged      last      meaning      nation      oppression      ring      sit      sons      spiritual      state      truths      village      white      words    

by Martin Luther King, Jr.


...I have a that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true of its creed: "We hold these to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
...I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the of slaveowners will be able to down together at a table of . I have a dream that one day even the of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and , will be transformed into an oasis of and justice. I have a that my four children will one day live in a where they will not be by the of their skin but by the content of their . I have a dream today.
...Let ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From mountainside, let freedom . When we let ring, when we let it ring from every and every hamlet, from every state and every , we will be able to speed up that day when all of children, black men and men, Jews and , Protestants and , will
be able to join and sing in the of the old Negro , "Free at ! free at last! thank God , we are at last!"