EARLY BIRD OR NIGHT OWL

Six people talk about their sleep schedules and if they are an early bird or night owl.

Seis personas hablan acerca de sus horarios para dormir y si son madrugadores o noctámbulos.

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The question is:

Are you an early bird or a night owl?

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Jeanie, United States

I am definitely a night owl. I can stay up all night and be fine but getting up early in the morning is always painful for me. With my current job, I always have to get up really early, but I still can't manage to get to bed before 1 o'clock in the morning.

I used to be a night owl when I was a student, staying up until about 4 o'clock in the morning, writing essays, drinking lots of coffee but I'm finding as I'm getting older, I can't do it. I have to go to bed, so nowadays I'm up a lot more earlier in the morning and I think I'm more productive in the morning.

Jim, England

Kate, New Zealand

I'm more of an early morning person. I wake up about 10 o'clock, which is quite late, I think, I guess, but when I wake up, I feel really refreshed and I'm ready to go to class and I'm awake and listening to the lecturer, but then by about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I need a nap. I get so exhausted that after classes and sports and things,and then I have a ten minute nap in the afternoon and then at about 12 o'clock I'll go to sleep.

I function the best in the morning, so I would have to say I'm an early bird. I can stay up late and I enjoy doing that "now and then" but by and large, more often than not, I have... I do my best work in the morning. I can get up early and don't really complain too much about it, so I'm an early bird.

Martin, United States

*Now and then: de vez en cuando.

Nitya, India

I guess I'm an early bird because I really enjoy getting up early in the morning taking a good shower and a good early start in the morning but it doesn't usually happen because of my late part-time jobs, but I guess everybody should be an early bird to better in their studies, at least students.

I am a night owl. I am the person that stays up till 4 in the morning and then I will have to get up at 8 in the morning and I'll do that repetitively every night, and I'm never tired I don't know what's wrong with me.

Rina, Canada

Useful English expressions

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Night Owl

Noctámbulo

Early bird

Madrugador

Take a nap

Tomar una siesta

By and large

En líneas generales

Feel refreshed

Sentirse descansado o con energia

Stay up

Quedarse despierto

Current

Actual

I used to be...

Yo solia ser/estar...

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