A Better Way to Start Your Day (1)

Enjoy your morning

Weather you love or hate mornings, they're a fact of life. If you dread them, here are some ways to make them less awful. If you're a morning person, these same tips can make mornings even better!

A good morning starts the night before. Be sure to get an adequate amount sleep. Most people need seven or eight hours of sleep to feel their best during the day.

If you must get up at 5 or 6 a.m., go to bed early to get your eight hours. Turn off the TV, computer or smartphone and hit they hay. When you get enough sleep, you won't feel the urge to hit the snooze button. That will make your day better, too. You can get out of bed on time.

Turn on some music in the morning. Play any tunes you like; it doesn't matter. Just turn on something that makes you feel good. You'll feel much happier as you start the day.

Info Cloud
Teaching Topic: What Is a Morning Person? (何謂 Morning Person)
morning person 很早起床, 精神很好, 做事有效率, 關鍵是temperament 氣質性情
early riser 很早起床, 但是很痛苦, 也許是被逼的
night owl 到了晚上才很有精神

Grammar Gym
Weather you love or hate mornings, they're a fact of life.

fact of life: something that is true and will never change

- In competitions, there are winners and there are losers; it's a fact of life.
- It's a fact of life that what is popular today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Language Lab
dread v.
to feel anxious or worried about something that is going to happen or may happen:
- Frank dreaded his driving test and couldn't even sleep the night before.
- Lillian dreads meeting her future in-laws. She's worried that they might not like her.

adequate adj.
enough in quantity or of a good enough quality for a particular purpose [= sufficient; ≠ inadequate]:
- We didn't have an adequate amount of time to prepare the proposal.
- Make sure we have an adequate amount of food and drink for the party.

crack of dawn
very early in the morning
at the crack of dawn 
- We were up at the crack of dawn.

sleep in phrasal verb
to let yourself sleep later than usual in the morning:
- We usually sleep in on Sunday mornings.

urge n.
to strongly suggest that someone does something;
to make someone or something move by shouting, pushing them etc
- I had an uncontrollable urge to laugh during the meeting.
- Irene urged her brother to attend the same school that she goes to.

tune n.
a serious of musical notes that are played or sung and are nice to listen to [= melody]:
- Susie stored all her favorite tunes on her cellphone.
- The radio station plays a lot of old tunes.
- The song has a very catchy tune.

hay n.
long grass that has been cut and dried, used as food for cattle
hit the gay
to go to bed

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