Benefits of Sleep zzzzz

According to the Huff Post, sleep is very beneficial to a person's overall health. The benefits include:

- better memory

- a decrease in inflammation

- creativity spurs

- an increase in performance (sports, work, etc.)

- an improvement in grades

- sharper attention

- healthy weight

- lower stress

- less accident prone

- a decrease in depression

- longer LIFE!

So as one can see, sleep is definitely an essential part of living a long healthy life. And quite honestly, some of the benefits seem to really make sense. So the next time you hear your alarm go off, do like me and go back to sleep for another 1o minutes or so, hey what could it hurt? If anyone asks why you're late, just say; "I was working on improving my overall health!"

Vocabulary

beneficial- producing good or helpful result or effects

inflammation- a condition in which a part of your body becomes red, swollen (become larger), and painful

spurs- something that is done on/at that moment without planning

stress- a state of mental tension and worry caused by problems in your life, work, or other

prone- likely to do, have, or suffer from something

depression- a state of feeling sad

essential- extremely important and necessary

Vocabulary Exercise

1. Choose the word that means the same as depression:

a. happy b. sad

c. sick d. angry

2. Choose the word that means the same as stress:

a. a feeling of tension b. a sickness

c. something you wear d. something you walk on

3. Choose the word that means the same as beneficial:

a. a reward b. a banking institution

c. good results d. a car

4. Choose the word that means the same as spurs:

a. a basketball team b. a kind of animal

b. a type of cereal d. without planning

5. Choose the word that means the same as prone:

a. something you talk on b. a type of food

b. a movie d. likely to

Grammar Point

Simple Present Tense is used...

When:

• the action is general
• the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future the action is not only happening now
• the statement is always true

Grammar Exercise

*Write down Three things that are in the present tense.