#3 BBC 6 minutes English listening - When do you feel sleepy

In this article, I'd like to summarize a listening practice article from http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/chinese/features/6-minute-english/ep-161215.

When do you feel sleepy?

Episode 161215 / 15 Dec 2016

This episode is talking about when do people feel like to sleep in a biological way.  

The reason is circadian rhythms, which means the rhythms of how day and night changes.  By this factor, we can know that human’s sleeping behavior is related to the changes of the light.  Due to this reason, blind people and some shift workers has different endogenous clocks than others.   

In addition, exercise, food, and caffeine, may also has some influence on circadian timing, but not as strongly as the light-dark cycle.

#2 Vocabulary Exercise

I have picked up 5 words as my vocabulary in this article, here are the major definitions and sample sentences of them.

Dictionary: http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/

Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/donald-trump-xi-jinping-summit-mar-a-lago/index.html

finalize: to complete the last part of a plan, trip, project, etc.
Example: They met to finalize the terms of the treaty.

administration: the people who plan, organize, and run a business, an institution, etc.

Example: We have a meeting with the senior administration at 8:00.

tentative: (of an arrangement, agreement, etc.) not definite or certain because you may want to change it later.

Example: We made a tentative arrangement to meet on Friday.

amid: in the middle of or during something, especially something that causes excitement or fear.

Example: The firm collapsed amid allegations of fraud.

leverage: the ability to influence what people do.

Example: Retailers can exert leverage over producers by threatening to take their business elsewhere.

#1 Small talk of me

Self introduction is always a challenge for me.  Why is it so hard to describe someone in a sincere way without making them sounds weird?

My name is Sharon Chen, a 2 years program students in AFL.  I enjoy learning languages and cultures, since each and every one of them is so unique and vivid.

Despite languages, art is my favorite field to put my head in.  I am interested in many kinds of art: drawing and painting, movies, novels, handicrafts like needled felting...etc. Sometimes I watch anime but rarely these years.  Yes, I draw.  But I am not the "Hey I have done a great art, check this out!" kind of person(so do many artists I guess?), there might not have chance for my babies to be here. Still, I love them a lot. I even dreamed to work in DreamWorks, until I woke up with my unfinished assignments.

Music is a kind of elements in my body, I can hardly live without earphones, especially when I am in the train or any place with crowd.  I am pretty into playhouse and electronic currently, I will always recommend you the Monstercat group on Youtube, they are the best if I have to choose.
Maroon 5, One Republic, Imagine Dragons, they are my favorite.  Never forget to mention.

Thank you for your reading, you have an extraordinary patience that I have seen.

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