This document discusses a reading on the importance of sleep. It includes discussion questions about how much sleep people get and need and the effects of not getting enough sleep. It also includes optional comprehension questions about the purpose and effects of sleep, locations of glands involved in sleep, technological advances that helped scientists study sleep, and what scientists could examine after the 1970s.

1. CRICOS 00111D
TOID 3059
EAP 4 week 1 Tuesday AM Reading
The importance of sleep

2. Discussion
1. How much sleep do you get every night?
2. How much sleep do you think people need?
3. What happens to you if you don’t get enough
sleep?
4. Do you think age affects how much sleep a
person needs?

3. Comprehension questions
(optional)
1. What is the main purpose of sleep?
2. What are the possible effects of not getting enough sleep?
3. Where is the pineal gland located and what does it produce?
4. What does SCN stand for?
5. What technological invention helped us better understand
‘sleep’?
6. After the 1970s what could scientists begin to examine in regard
to sleep?

4. Comprehension questions
(optional)
1. It is essential to our inner well-being.
2. It doesn’t allow us to restore ourselves physically, emotionally
and cognitively. Not enough sleep affects our mood and can result
in behaviour and performance problems.
3. In the hypothalamus and it produces melatonin.
4. Superchiasmatic nucleus
5. Electroencephalogram (EEG)
6. The role that correct breathing plays during sleep.

5. Describing change
over time

6. How Americans spend their day
Graph: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-21/how-americans-spend-their-day-less-work-more-sleep-and-tv

7. Describing changes over time
a) Between 2003 and 2004, the number of hours Americans slept dropped slightly.
b) Between 2003 and 2004, there was a slight drop in the number of hours
Americans slept.

8. Practise:
1. In 2004, the amount of sleep rose unexpectedly from 8.55h to more
than 8.6h.
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9. Practise
2. Between 2006 and 2007, there was a sudden fall in the amount of
sleep Americans got/number of hours Americans spent sleeping.
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10. Practise
3. Between 2004 and 2007, the number of work hours rose steadily.
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11. Practise
4. From 2007, there was a dramatic decline in the number of work
hours.
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