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Taking an Afternoon Nap May Make Your Brain Healthier

Who doesn’t love a good nap? We wake up feeling recharged and ready to go, or we sleep too long and feel even more tired afterwards. Naps aren’t only good for your brain, your body benefits too. Let’s see what Adam’s got to report about it.

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The news is a consistent source of entertainment, knowledge and discovery that never ceases to exist and always comes out with more and more material each day. Because it plays such a vital part in our lives and is so important to keep up with, it is without a doubt a piece of your everyday routine that can’t go ignored.

Whether it is to understand the ramifications of recent legislation passed, to hear about recent events and grasp the potential consequences to your country, or simply hear about what is happening in other countries in order to compare them to what’s happening in yours, the news is certainly a staple in our lives and the most consistent way to get information.

This is why Scrambled Eggs has decided to unite two of your biggest worlds: learning English and keeping up with what is happening in the world. We hope our challenging daily exercises, composed of listening, vocabulary and comprehension exercises in English, will satisfy both of those above worlds in a satisfactory and also entertaining way.

So enough about introductions, let’s get to today’s Learn English with the News topic:

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Taking an Afternoon Nap May Make Your Brain Healthier | Definition Match

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Taking an Afternoon Nap May Make Your Brain Healthier | Fill in the Blank

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Taking an Afternoon Nap May Make Your Brain Healthier | True or False

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If you love sleeping, then we have good news for you. Afternoon naps might be good for your brain. A study found a correlation between afternoon naps and improved mental agility and cognitive function.

The study involved more than 1,500 elderly subjects. They all claimed to be afternoon nappers—meaning that they like taking naps after lunch. The naps last longer than five minutes but less than two hours. The scientist also measured more than 600 non-nappers of the same age.

There were three major findings. First, elderly individuals who took afternoon naps showed significantly higher cognitive performance. Second, higher levels of TG (triglycerides) were found in napping elderly individuals. Finally, afternoon napping helped with orientation, language function, and memory.

It is important to mention that each subject group reported an average of 6.5 hours of sleep per night. This means that daytime nappers were complementing their nighttime sleep instead of compensating for overnight sleep disruptions.

The researchers also noted that not all daytime naps are beneficial. Particularly, naps longer than two hours can actually hurt your cognitive function, so make sure to set an alarm!

Passive voice quiz – The lives of famous women writers

Howdy! Below you’ll find a blog prepared by a native English teacher. Here at Scrambled Eggs we like to prepare videos, news articles and exercises on grammar and vocabulary to help our students continue their learning outside of the classroom. Take a look at this blog about the passive voice, we hope you enjoy it!

In this quiz, you’ll practice the passive voice in all its different forms while learning about the lives of some of the most iconic female writers in the English language.

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Jane Austen

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Virginia Woolf

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Toni Morrison

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Hanya Yanagihara

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Five Iconic Movie Quotes

Hello and welcome to our blog! This is where Scrambled Eggs Scuola di Inglese posts news articles, videos, vocabulary lists, grammar exercises and cultural blogs to help you continue to develop your English language abilities. Only grammar or only vocabulary or only writing is not enough – you need a wide variety of exercises and activities to develop a well-rounded English ability. We hope you enjoy this blog about movie quotes and be sure to let us know if you have any questions about it!

It’s estimated that around 500,000 movies have been released since cinema began. With that many films, it’s impossible to condense them all into five quotes but that didn’t stop us from doing it anyway! That’s just how we roll here at Scrambled.

So how well do you know your movie quotes? Take a seat and grab some popcorn as we quiz you on five of the greatest from cinema history. Hasta la vista! Baby.

Five Iconic Movie Quotes | QUIZ

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And here are the quotes!

“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’
Well, do you, punk?”

 

“You had me at hello.”

 

“The name’s Bond, James Bond.”

 

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

 

“Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you’re gonna get.”

 

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