I'm really very tired and I can't really take this lesson. I need some sleep, so good night.
Is that how you also talk about going off to sleep? So boring, everyone says the same
thing. I'm going to sleep, goodnight, that's really boring and there are so many different
and much better ways when you want to say, I need some sleep. So I’m going to make
your life much more interesting now with different ways. Stay tuned with me, Sonia; make sure
you watch this lesson, so you'll learn better words.
The very first thing you could say is, take a nap, alright.so what does it mean when you
say, take a nap. A nap is basically a very short period of sleep, okay. So say, for example,
you've been at home all day but you've been working and you're really tired but you still
have some more work to do. So what can you do? You can take a short nap, a brief period
of sleep just for maybe say half an hour, so you feel fresh. You're rejuvenated and
then you can continue with your work. So may be in an example you could say, I'm sure if
I take a quick nap, I will feel really fresh.
You could also say, call it a night, okay. So what do I mean by this? Call it a night.
This is basically a phrase you would use when say you're done for the day, you've finished
work, you've reached home and you've done whatever you had to do. You've finished eating,
all your errands are over and you really just need to go off to sleep. So then you could
use this phrase, call it a night or maybe you are at a party. The party has been amazing,
you've had loads of fun and you've danced your heart out and now you're really tired,
even then you could use this phrase, which says, call it a night. So basically it is,
to finish every work and go off to sleep. If you want to use it in a sentence, you could
say, well the party was amazing but I'm really tired now and I think I need to call it a
night.
The next one here, Okay this is interesting, sounds a little violent but it isn't. It says,
hit the sack, are you talking about hitting or punching something? No, you're not gonna
hit or punch any sack. What it means is that you are extremely tired. You know sometimes
there are these days when you've really worked hard; you've stretched your hours at work.
Maybe you were at work for 15 hours at a stretch. you've not eaten well, you're extremely exhausted
and all you can think about is a bed and how you're gonna crash on that bed, the moment
you reach home. So that when you could use something like hit the sack, okay. So that's
when you’re extremely sleepy, okay and you need to go to sleep like almost instantly.
So in a sentence, you could say, well I have worked really long hours today and I'm going
to hit the sack as soon as I reach home.
The next one here, it says, get some shut-eye. Now, what do I mean, when I say, shut? Shut
means to close, to close something. So it means to close your eyes and go to sleep but
just for a short period. Well say if you've been studying for many hours maybe if you're
a student and your exams, are you know going to come in the recent future. So you've been
studying for many hours at a stretch, what do you need to do then? Take a quick break
maybe and get some shuteye. So it means, to sleep for a short period. It’s a very casual
phrase and it sounds really smart too. So maybe in a sentence,
you could say, I've been studying for hours and I really to get some shut-eye.
The next one and I like this personally, it says snooze for a while. I'm sure you must've
heard the word snooze earlier. We use it a lot for alarms, right? Like I'm one of those
people, I keep an alarm for say 8 am and as soon as the alarm rings, I keep snoozing it
for 5 or for 10 minutes because I need some extra sleep. but here when I say, snooze for
a while, it means that I need to sleep for just a little time, just to be able to get
back up on my feet, alright. So snooze for a while also means to sleep for some time.,
just a short period of time. So say, maybe you are on a road trip with your friends and
you've been driving continuously for maybe say 4 hours and now you're really tired, you
can feel that you may just go off to sleep at any point in time. So what do you need
to do? You need to snooze for a while. So maybe you can tell your friend, well hey I'm
really tired driving so why don't you take over the wheel and I will just snooze for
a while, so I'll feel fresh. The next one and this happens to a lot of us. It says,
doze off. What do you mean by doze off? It's something like you know, you're just sitting
and suddenly you just like fall off to sleep. Has it happened to you? You know if, maybe
you’re attending a seminar or maybe even a lecture at college which was like really
boring, alright and you're sitting somewhere at the rear part of the class. No one was
watching you and while sitting straight, you just suddenly like dozed off. So this means,
to just sleep immediately. Alright, that's what it means to doze off. So maybe in a sentence,
you could say, well, the lecture in college was so boring, today that I just dozed off,
I didn't know what happened post that.
Finally, this is a nice one, it says take a siesta, alright. Now, what does siesta mean?
This is basically a short, brief period of sleep that you take after your afternoon meal.
It's a word that's mostly used in Spain and also in certain Latin American countries.
So it's quite a way where people tend to just sleep for maybe an hour or so, after their
afternoon meal and relax, feel all fresh and then get back to their work later on. So it's
basically, sleeping for some time after say your noon meal.
Okay, so in a sentence you could say, well I love taking a siesta once in a while, it
just helps me to feel much fresher and active later on. So, guys, this is how you can say,
I need some sleep in so many different ways, look at them, they are so interesting, why
do we want to use the same, old, boring words, right? So make sure that you practise these
phrases, use them wherever you can in your day to day conversation. I'll be back soon
with something much more interesting, till then you take care, bye- bye.