The Reading / Listening - Cheese & Nightmares - Level 5

New research suggests that cheese could give people nightmares. A study in a journal found that people with a severe lactose intolerance were more likely to have bad dreams and insomnia. The director of the Dream and Nightmare Lab in Canada analyzed the diet, health and sleep patterns of 1,000 people. She wanted to investigate how food affected dreams. The director based her research on a 2015 study that looked into "food-dependent dreaming". Participants in that study blamed cheese and other dairy products for disrupting their sleep.

The director found that people with stomach problems and lactose intolerance had scarier and more frequent nightmares. She said: "Gastrointestinal issues…could account for a lot of what's happening in terms of sleep disturbances [and] different dreams." Her colleague said: "Sleep disturbances affect a huge proportion of the general population." Around 35 per cent of people could have a clinically significant sleep disorder. Research suggests that about 85 per cent of adults have a nightmare at least once a year. About 5 per cent of people have one frequently.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    Cheese & Nightmares - Level 4 or  Cheese & Nightmares - Level 6

Sources
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/can-cheese-turn-dreams-nightmares-rcna215580
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/cheese-may-actually-give-you-nightmares-here-is-why#How-to-get-better-sleep-7-dietitian-tips-for-people-with-food-intolerances
  • https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/smart-living/does-cheese-before-bed-really-give-you-nightmares-a-study-finally-settles-the-debate/ar-AA1HxreX


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. New research suggests
  2. A study
  3. people with a severe lactose
  4. likely to have bad dreams
  5. investigate how food
  6. food-
  7. dairy
  8. disrupting their
  1. sleep
  2. intolerance
  3. affected dreams
  4. products
  5. and insomnia
  6. that
  7. dependent dreaming
  8. in a journal

Paragraph 2

  1. people with stomach
  2. scarier and more
  3. Gastrointestinal
  4. in terms
  5. a huge proportion of the general
  6. have a clinically significant sleep
  7. at least
  8. 5 per cent of people have one
  1. once a year
  2. of sleep disturbances
  3. population
  4. frequently
  5. frequent nightmares
  6. problems
  7. issues
  8. disorder

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

New research suggests that (1) ________________________________________________ people nightmares. A study in a journal found that people with (2) ________________________________________________ intolerance were more likely to have bad (3) ________________________________________________. The director of the Dream and Nightmare Lab in Canada analyzed the diet, health and sleep patterns of 1,000 people. She wanted (4) ________________________________________________ food affected dreams. The director based her research on a 2015 study that looked into "(5) ________________________________________________". Participants in that study blamed cheese and other dairy products for (6) ________________________________________________.

The director found that people with stomach (7) ________________________________________________ intolerance had scarier and more frequent nightmares. She said: "Gastrointestinal issues...could (8) ________________________________________________ lot of what's happening (9) ________________________________________________ sleep disturbances [and] different dreams." Her colleague said: "Sleep disturbances (10) ________________________________________________ proportion of the general population." Around 35 per cent of people could have (11) ________________________________________________ sleep disorder. Research suggests that about 85 per cent of adults have a nightmare (12) ________________________________________________ a year. About 5 per cent of people have one frequently.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

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yinajournalfoundthatpeoplewithaseverelactoseintoleranceweremor
elikelytohavebaddreamsandinsomnia.ThedirectoroftheDreamandN
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000people.Shewantedtoinvestigatehowfoodaffecteddreams.Thedir
ectorbasedherresearchona2015studythatlookedinto"food-depend
entdreaming".Participantsinthatstudyblamedcheeseandotherdairy
productsfordisruptingtheirsleep.Thedirectorfoundthatpeoplewithst
omachproblemsandlactoseintolerancehadscarierandmorefrequent
nightmares.Shesaid:"Gastrointestinalissues...couldaccountforaloto
fwhat'shappeningintermsofsleepdisturbances[and]differentdreams
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generalpopulation."Around35percentofpeoplecouldhaveaclinicallys
ignificantsleepdisorder.Researchsuggeststhatabout85percentofadu
ltshaveanightmareatleastonceayear.About5percentofpeoplehaveo
nefrequently.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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