SOCIAL JETLAG

Would you say you’re an early bird

or a night owl? Why?

How’d you define the body clock?

Share your views with a partner.

Watch the video and check whether you were right or wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ylqK-aPX8

Based on the video answer the following questions:

a) How many clocks are there in the modern world?b) Which are they? c)How do they work?

What’s social jetlag, according to the video?

Have you ever thought about this?

Watch the video again and fill in the gaps.

Watch the second part of the video again and try to define the following lexical items:

a) to presumeb) likelyc) huged) sunrisee) sunsetf) actuallyg) chubby

Watch the second part of the video again and try to define the following lexical items:

a) to presume

b) likely

c) huge = enormous

= probably going to happen, or probably true

= to think that something is true because it is likely, although you cannot be certain

Watch the second part of the video again and try to define the following lexical items:

d) sunrise

e) sunset

Watch the second part of the video again and try to define the following lexical items:

f) actually

g) chubby

Used for emphasizing what is really true or what really happened; = in reality

What are the consequences of living against our body clock?

Based on the video, what should we have already done?

What was the expression used to convey that?

It’s high time

What’s the idea expressed by “it’s high time”?

a) a complimentb) a conditionc) a piece of criticism

It’s high time + past tense

or

It’s time + past tense

Do you suffer from social jetlag? Tell your partner a situation which would prove it.