hello and welcome to News Review recorded in our homes I'm on one side of
London Catherine is on the other hi Catherine hello Neil hello everyone so
what story have you got for us today well we've got a sleep story today Neil
have you been sleeping okay during the coronavirus actually I've been sleeping
very well I don't know what that says about me but yes I've been sleeping very
well and you well it is interesting because a lot of people around the world
haven't been sleeping very well during these times and that's what we're
looking at today okay well let's find out some more about
that from this BBC Radio 1 news beat report and more than half of the UK
population is struggling to sleep properly during lockdown according to a
survey King's College London spoke to more than 2,000 people two in five said
they've had unusual dreams and lots of young people said they were sleeping but
not feeling rested a lot of people in the UK are finding it difficult to sleep
during the corona virus pandemic two in five people say they're experiencing
weird dreams and a lot of young people are saying they don't feel very rested
at the moment ok well that's not very nice for a lot of people let's have a
look at some of the vocabulary you've picked out to help us discuss this story
what have you got we have disrupted uneasy and insomnia
disrupted uneasy and insomnia ok so your first headline pleased with and
disrupted so we're starting here in the UK with the independent the headline is
half of British adults say their sleep has been disrupted in lockdown disrupted
prevented from continuing yes disrupted D is R u p t-- e d disrupted
there are three syllables in this word the stress is on the roped the middle
syllable Neil would you like to demonstrate disrupted
there you go thank you so this word starts with a lovely prefix the letters
D is dis I've found in front of a lot of words and the general meaning of the
prefix dis is often bad or wrong so we already know that there's something it's
describing something difficult disrupted means disturbed to the extent that
something can't continue something happens which means that you can't
continue or finish what you're doing in the way you want to do it now near
you're a father with children at home at the moment aren't you yes yes they're
their normal lives have really been disrupted because of course they don't
go to school yes so things are very different for them and I know you're
working from home as well in your home office I am right here any disruptions
yes disruption a noun there I do have a few disruptions I have to say a knock on
the door and will you play football with me in the garden daddy that kind of
thing so you've got disruptive kids they are disruptive for the adjective yes yes
so we've got the noun verb an adjective so it's disruption disrupt and
disruptive to describe people or things that disrupt is it the same as disturb
it's a bit stronger than disturb I think if you disrupt something you really make
it difficult to continue whereas disturbed might be sort of temporary or
something that kind of gets in the way a little bit
and we also use disturb to describe the way we think and feel so you could say
that you could watch a disturbing film for example something that makes you
feel uncomfortable and a bit upset you wouldn't say I watched a disruptive film
last night okay let's get a summary of that please
let's have a look then at our second headline yes now the sleep story isn't
just confined to the UK here's a headline from the United States from NPR
and it reads like this how to get sleep in uneasy times uneasy worrying anxious
yes uneasy you and II a sy uneasy now Catherine I'm going to interrupt you
here and I'm gonna give you my theory okay because I know in this word I can
see two parts one of them is easy I know what easy means and at the beginning
there's um which means not so I'm going to say that uneasy is the opposite of
easy it means difficult right well if only it
were that simple Neal you're kind of right to an extent but there are some
major differences in the way we use uneasy it's true in this headline you
could take out the word uneasy and put in difficult and say we are having
difficult times that's true we are however uneasy is about a feeling you
get when things aren't normal and you feel scared you feel anxious you feel
worried you feel fearful of the future so when some things eat uneasy or it
makes you feel uneasy it's really to do with being worried okay so I couldn't
say I once tried to learn Russian and I was uneasy no you shouldn't say that no
no no okay no no if you're uneasy you might feel uneasy if you have to
perform something in Russian when you'd only be learning for a little while that
might you feel like a very kind of anxious and nervous but it's more to do
with fear unease okay it's also an owl isn't it yes I just said it unease is a
noun you can say I had a feeling of unease
when I heard a noise outside my bedroom window at 3 o'clock in the morning I
hope it was nothing serious it was the Foxes always ofcourse urban
foxes terrible ok let's have a summary
before we move on Catherine would like to apologize to the foxes I really like
foxes really do ok sometimes you have to say things then you just to make it
clear yes I do and Oh foxes they're terrible it's terrible to be disturbed
by a fox at 3:00 in the morning but that doesn't mean I don't like them
ok before we have our final headline we have plenty of other stories about
sleeping one in particular we think you will like yes if you don't know what to
do when you can't get to sleep we have some advice for you just click the link
to go to in the description to go straight to the program ok so our final
headline now still in the United States The Wall Street Journal
how sleep has changed in the pandemic insomnia late bedtimes weird dreams
insomnia medical condition in which sleeping is difficult yes I am s om and
I a very interesting word it has an M and an N next to each other which is
quite unusual in English the pronunciation is insomnia insomnia yes
syllabus I n those are in some knee ah and Neal would you like to demonstrate
the stress for us please insomnia definitely the second syllable
thank you very much insomnia and it starts with a prefix this time in I n
another prefix which means not so sum the sum bit is relating to sleep
the in bit means not so not sleep in some
yeah okay so if I had a bad night's sleep last night but you know normally
I'm okay do I have insomnia well you might say you've got insomnia Neil
because you want attention and you're being quite dramatic but insomnia is a
kind of medical term a medical condition which means that you know you can't
sleep regularly and it's really interfering with your life we all have
the odd bad night but insomnia is a bit more serious and the occasional
difficulty sleeping okay but it is sometimes used by people who perhaps
don't have a medical diagnosis dramatic if you want to be dramatic you can say
you've got insomnia okay a person who has insomnia is an
insomniac and insomniac and it's omni AK with AC on the end yes are you an
insomniac Sandile it's not what you think you are I'm not an insomniac I
have had difficulty sleeping in the past but I'm not an insomniac fortunately
because it's quite it's bad for you isn't it yes I think it's quite
unpleasant if you are an insomniac it interferes with your life quite
significantly and you probably could benefit from treatment okay let's have a
summary of that
time now for a summary of our vocabulary okay so we had disrupted prevented from
continuing we had uneasy worrying anxious and
insomnia medical condition in which sleeping is difficult if you would like
to test yourself on the vocabulary there's a quiz on our website BBC
learning english.com stay safe see you next time
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