Questões de Inglês

    Archaeologists in Serbia say that they have

discovered a rare mammoth field containing the remains

of at least five of the giant beasts that lived here tens of

thousands of years ago. The discovery last week at the

[5] Kostolac coal mine, east of Serbian capital of Belgrade,

is the first of its kind in the region. It could offer important

insight into the ice age in the Balkans, said Miomir from

Serbia’s mammoth fragments in the world, but they are

    Teenagers are renowned for enjoying lengthy

lie-ins in the morning. But contrary to popular belief,

their reluctance to get out of bed may not be just down

to laziness alone.

[5]    This bedroom is a battleground. Morgan’s 17, and

like most other teenagers, she struggles to surface.

Noelle Delaney, her mother, says: “Some days it is very

difficult…you know I have to go in there two, three times.

I have been known to pull her by her feet out of her bed.”

[10] Morgan replies:“It’s too early to get up in the morning,

especially in the winter when it’s quite dark out. It just

seems like you’re getting up in the middle of the night,

you just want to be back in bed.”

    And that’s why sleep scientists studied Morgan

[15] and her friends for two weeks. These wrist-mounted

sensors monitored their every move — waking and

sleeping.Analysis of that data surprised the scientists.

They found that consistently the teenagers get just six

and a half hours sleep a night. Most adults need at least

[20] eight. When the clocks moved forward to British Summer

Time the youngsters got even less — just six hours a

night.

    As Joanne Bower, from the University of Surrey,

says, “You’ve got something inside you called your

[25] circadian rhythm [body clock] which insures the same

thing happens the same time every day and one of those

things is the secretion of melatonin which is the hormone

that makes you sleepy. Now for an adult you expect

that to be early evening, in teenagers it happens much

[30] later so even if you put your teenager in bed at say ten

at night it may be that they don’t secrete their melatonin

until midnight, one o’clock, so they’re staring at the

ceiling just not sleepy.” Consistent sleep deprivation

can affect concentration, memory or even mood. The

[35] scientists behind this study say more research is needed

because, like Morgan, most teenagers have busy

lives — what they’re not getting is enough rest.

SLEEP teenagers. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/>. Acesso em: 12 out 2012.

    Teenagers are renowned for enjoying lengthy

lie-ins in the morning. But contrary to popular belief,

their reluctance to get out of bed may not be just down

to laziness alone.

[5]    This bedroom is a battleground. Morgan’s 17, and

like most other teenagers, she struggles to surface.

Noelle Delaney, her mother, says: “Some days it is very

difficult…you know I have to go in there two, three times.

I have been known to pull her by her feet out of her bed.”

[10] Morgan replies:“It’s too early to get up in the morning,

especially in the winter when it’s quite dark out. It just

seems like you’re getting up in the middle of the night,

you just want to be back in bed.”

    And that’s why sleep scientists studied Morgan

[15] and her friends for two weeks. These wrist-mounted

sensors monitored their every move — waking and

sleeping.Analysis of that data surprised the scientists.

They found that consistently the teenagers get just six

and a half hours sleep a night. Most adults need at least

[20] eight. When the clocks moved forward to British Summer

Time the youngsters got even less — just six hours a

night.

    As Joanne Bower, from the University of Surrey,

says, “You’ve got something inside you called your

[25] circadian rhythm [body clock] which insures the same

thing happens the same time every day and one of those

things is the secretion of melatonin which is the hormone

that makes you sleepy. Now for an adult you expect

that to be early evening, in teenagers it happens much

[30] later so even if you put your teenager in bed at say ten

at night it may be that they don’t secrete their melatonin

until midnight, one o’clock, so they’re staring at the

ceiling just not sleepy.” Consistent sleep deprivation

can affect concentration, memory or even mood. The

[35] scientists behind this study say more research is needed

because, like Morgan, most teenagers have busy

lives — what they’re not getting is enough rest.

SLEEP teenagers. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/>. Acesso em: 12 out 2012.

    Teenagers are renowned for enjoying lengthy

lie-ins in the morning. But contrary to popular belief,

their reluctance to get out of bed may not be just down

to laziness alone.

[5]    This bedroom is a battleground. Morgan’s 17, and

like most other teenagers, she struggles to surface.

Noelle Delaney, her mother, says: “Some days it is very

difficult…you know I have to go in there two, three times.

I have been known to pull her by her feet out of her bed.”

[10] Morgan replies:“It’s too early to get up in the morning,

especially in the winter when it’s quite dark out. It just

seems like you’re getting up in the middle of the night,

you just want to be back in bed.”

    And that’s why sleep scientists studied Morgan

[15] and her friends for two weeks. These wrist-mounted

sensors monitored their every move — waking and

sleeping.Analysis of that data surprised the scientists.

They found that consistently the teenagers get just six

and a half hours sleep a night. Most adults need at least

[20] eight. When the clocks moved forward to British Summer

Time the youngsters got even less — just six hours a

night.

    As Joanne Bower, from the University of Surrey,

says, “You’ve got something inside you called your

[25] circadian rhythm [body clock] which insures the same

thing happens the same time every day and one of those

things is the secretion of melatonin which is the hormone

that makes you sleepy. Now for an adult you expect

that to be early evening, in teenagers it happens much

[30] later so even if you put your teenager in bed at say ten

at night it may be that they don’t secrete their melatonin

until midnight, one o’clock, so they’re staring at the

ceiling just not sleepy.” Consistent sleep deprivation

can affect concentration, memory or even mood. The

[35] scientists behind this study say more research is needed

because, like Morgan, most teenagers have busy

lives — what they’re not getting is enough rest.

SLEEP teenagers. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/>. Acesso em: 12 out 2012.

    Teenagers are renowned for enjoying lengthy

lie-ins in the morning. But contrary to popular belief,

their reluctance to get out of bed may not be just down

to laziness alone.

[5]    This bedroom is a battleground. Morgan’s 17, and

like most other teenagers, she struggles to surface.

Noelle Delaney, her mother, says: “Some days it is very

difficult…you know I have to go in there two, three times.

I have been known to pull her by her feet out of her bed.”

[10] Morgan replies:“It’s too early to get up in the morning,

especially in the winter when it’s quite dark out. It just

seems like you’re getting up in the middle of the night,

you just want to be back in bed.”

    And that’s why sleep scientists studied Morgan

[15] and her friends for two weeks. These wrist-mounted

sensors monitored their every move — waking and

sleeping.Analysis of that data surprised the scientists.

They found that consistently the teenagers get just six

and a half hours sleep a night. Most adults need at least

[20] eight. When the clocks moved forward to British Summer

Time the youngsters got even less — just six hours a

night.

    As Joanne Bower, from the University of Surrey,

says, “You’ve got something inside you called your

[25] circadian rhythm [body clock] which insures the same

thing happens the same time every day and one of those

things is the secretion of melatonin which is the hormone

that makes you sleepy. Now for an adult you expect

that to be early evening, in teenagers it happens much

[30] later so even if you put your teenager in bed at say ten

at night it may be that they don’t secrete their melatonin

until midnight, one o’clock, so they’re staring at the

ceiling just not sleepy.” Consistent sleep deprivation

can affect concentration, memory or even mood. The

[35] scientists behind this study say more research is needed

because, like Morgan, most teenagers have busy

lives — what they’re not getting is enough rest.

SLEEP teenagers. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/>. Acesso em: 12 out 2012.

    Teenagers are renowned for enjoying lengthy

lie-ins in the morning. But contrary to popular belief,

their reluctance to get out of bed may not be just down

to laziness alone.

[5]    This bedroom is a battleground. Morgan’s 17, and

like most other teenagers, she struggles to surface.

Noelle Delaney, her mother, says: “Some days it is very

difficult…you know I have to go in there two, three times.

I have been known to pull her by her feet out of her bed.”

[10] Morgan replies:“It’s too early to get up in the morning,

especially in the winter when it’s quite dark out. It just

seems like you’re getting up in the middle of the night,

you just want to be back in bed.”

    And that’s why sleep scientists studied Morgan

[15] and her friends for two weeks. These wrist-mounted

sensors monitored their every move — waking and

sleeping.Analysis of that data surprised the scientists.

They found that consistently the teenagers get just six

and a half hours sleep a night. Most adults need at least

[20] eight. When the clocks moved forward to British Summer

Time the youngsters got even less — just six hours a

night.

    As Joanne Bower, from the University of Surrey,

says, “You’ve got something inside you called your

[25] circadian rhythm [body clock] which insures the same

thing happens the same time every day and one of those

things is the secretion of melatonin which is the hormone

that makes you sleepy. Now for an adult you expect

that to be early evening, in teenagers it happens much

[30] later so even if you put your teenager in bed at say ten

at night it may be that they don’t secrete their melatonin

until midnight, one o’clock, so they’re staring at the

ceiling just not sleepy.” Consistent sleep deprivation

can affect concentration, memory or even mood. The

[35] scientists behind this study say more research is needed

because, like Morgan, most teenagers have busy

lives — what they’re not getting is enough rest.

SLEEP teenagers. Disponível em: <www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/>. Acesso em: 12 out 2012.