Sleep questions are about routine and habit, so the examiner is listening for accurate time expressions, everyday phrasal verbs and a clear link between cause and effect.
Answer each one aloud before you read the model — two to four sentences, then stop.
Written to be spoken, at about band 8. Useful phrases are in bold. Borrow the structure and the phrases — never the whole answer.
Around seven hours on a weeknight, which seems to be about right for me. If I get much less than that, I really feel it the next day: I'm slower at work and a bit short-tempered. At weekends I'll often sleep in for an extra hour or two to make up for it.
A night owl, definitely, which is unfortunate, because my job starts at eight. My brain seems to wake up at about ten in the evening, and that's when I'm at my most creative. So there's a constant battle between what my body wants and what my alarm clock says.
Hardly ever. I've tried, but if I sleep for more than twenty minutes in the afternoon, I wake up groggy and then struggle to drop off at night. The only exception is after a long journey, when I'll occasionally allow myself a short nap on the sofa.
Yes, my parents were quite strict about it. Lights out was at half past eight, even in the summer when it was still light outside, which felt terribly unfair at the time. I used to read under the covers with a torch, so I suppose the night-owl habit started early.
I try not to reach for my phone, because that just wakes me up more. Instead I'll get up, make a cup of herbal tea and read something fairly dull for twenty minutes. Lying there staring at the ceiling never works for me; the harder I try to sleep, the more awake I feel.
Probably not. Lots of people I know work long hours and then stay up late because that's the only free time they get. On top of that, most of us have a screen in front of our faces until the moment we turn the light off, which can't be good for sleep quality.
Yes, I'd like to have a more regular routine. At the moment I go to bed at completely different times depending on the day, and I know that throws my body clock out of sync. If I could stick to the same bedtime every night, I think I'd wake up feeling far more refreshed.
Now answer them with the clock running.
Timed Part 1 practice with an AI band for each criterion.