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Morning Person
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Morning Person
早起的人

Count and Non-Count Nouns

Date: Nov 23 2011

Themes: Time

Grammar: Count and Noncount Nouns

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When your alarm clock rings, what do you do? Do you roll over and hit the snooze button? Or do you jump out of bed, ready to start another day?

If you find it easy to wake up and enjoy rising with the sun, you must be a morning person. Luckily, for the rest of us, there’s always coffee. Find out if Marni and Mason are morning people.

当闹钟响起时,你会做什么?你是会翻过身去,然后按下贪睡按钮?或者还是立刻起床,准备开始新的一天?
如果你发现自己很容易睡醒,并且享受日出的时刻,那你一定是早起的人。而对于我们其他人来说,幸亏我们有咖啡可以让自己提神。看看玛尼和梅森是不是早起的人。

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Marni

Marni

Mason

Mason

Marni:  Gosh, Mason. You know, I am just not really a morning person.

Mason:  No?

Marni:  No. I’m having a hard time getting going. You know, I don’t like the “rise and shine!” I’m not perky. I just kinda get out of bed and I trudge to the bathroom.

Mason:  How many alarms do you set for yourself to get out of bed? And/or do you hit the snooze button?

Marni:  I only set one alarm, and I do hit the snooze button.

Mason:  Yeah, see, I usually wake up anywhere from five to 30 minutes before my alarm, which is less than ideal because I never wake up right when I want to, and then you have a choice, right? You can embrace the fact that you’re mostly awake and get up early, make yourself a cup of coffee, read a paper, whatever. Or you can maybe go back to sleep, but for me, when I get woken up in the middle of a deep sleep, I’m just a wreck for the rest of the day.

Marni:  Yeah, I just have a hard time getting a head start. I’ve kind of had to become a morning person being in the teaching profession, obviously. So I’m making myself go to bed earlier and earlier. But I just love staying up late. I’m a total night owl.

Mason:  Can you force yourself to go to bed early?

Marni:  Yeah, I have found some coping mechanisms. I make a lot of chamomile tea, maybe if it’s been a particularly hard day…

Mason:  Couple bottles of wine?

Marni:  Well, sure.

 

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Discussion

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Marni is tired. She hasn’t been able to wake up yet. She dislikes getting up early and is not a morning person.

Mason is more of a morning person than Marni. In fact, he doesn’t even need an alarm to wake up. He usually wakes up naturally, before his alarm rings.

It’s necessary for Marni to get up early because of her job. She tries to go to sleep early at night so that it will be easier for her to get up when her alarm rings. But she prefers to stay up late. She is a night owl.

Are you a morning person? Is it easy for you to wake up in the morning? Do you use an alarm clock?

 

Comments

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agnes-China

China

I am a morning person. It’s easy for me to get up early in the morning. I don’t need to use any clock. whenever it’s 7 o’clock in the morning, I wake up. Then I get out of the bed and go out  for walking or jogging.

08:27 AM Nov 23 2011 |

bonniewang99

China

I think I am not a morning person but a night owl too, I like work late in the night, and go to bed very late, so I do not like wake up early at morning. But recently I hard to wake up at time in the morning beacause the work and test so so,

08:24 AM Nov 23 2011 |

kinjal gadhavi

India

i like morning…..Laughing



08:08 AM Nov 23 2011 |

Whitney S

Whitney S

Colombia

WhI hate waking up early morning! I love sleeping hehe!

07:48 AM Nov 23 2011 |

liaobin23bd

China

I’m a  morning person when i was a freshman but now i get up late because lacking motivation. i was confused now but i’ll try my best to be a morning person again cause i’m a ambitious one.

05:27 AM Nov 23 2011 |

panictx

panictx

South Korea

I’m trying to wake up early in the morning. The time is 4 am. It’s so early. Although I’m a morning person. it’s too hard and difficult for me to wake up on the time. In addition, it’s cold weather these days in Korea. So it’s harder for me. However, I’m keeping it up!! Smile

03:47 AM Nov 23 2011 |

vanthuha

Viet Nam

I am a night owl. I put alarm on my hand phone much earlier than the time I should get out of bed. When the phone alarms, I just press on the button saying that the phone will ring again (after 45 minutes). By that way I can gradually wake up

03:35 AM Nov 23 2011 |

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suzecatz

Philippines

sometimes i am a morning person but it vary the time how many hours i sleep in the evening so i can hardly wake up early if it does so.but its so nice to wake up early and be a morning person.its really a nice feeling when you wake early.you feel good and active and you can have a good start with  a breakfast and coffee.

02:44 AM Nov 23 2011 |

suzecatz

Philippines

sometimes i am a morning person but it vary the time how many hours i sleep in the evening so i can hardly wake up early if it does so.but its so nice to wake up early and be a morning person.its really a nice feeling when you wake early.you feel good and active and you can have a good start with  a breakfast and coffee.

02:37 AM Nov 23 2011 |

Nicoleli

Nicoleli

China

i am not a morning person,i alarmed my phone but when it ring ,I always made it stop.

02:36 AM Nov 23 2011 |

khaethe

khaethe

Philippines

im not a morning person really..i alarmed my phone but when it rings i get irritated..

02:04 AM Nov 23 2011 |

wilma86

Finland

Sometimes i am a morning person, but sometimes i´m not… I´m working in three shifts, so my morning is sometimes at 5am, sometimes at 5pm :). But yeah, i think i´m a morning person (even if morning is at 5AM) if my morning is easygoing and i can drink my coffee without any hurry…

01:42 AM Nov 23 2011 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

I usually wake up at five in the morning , turn on the TV and watch the news  and the weather channel then i am ready to start the day  not without a cup of coffe  and toast with cheese and jam. Definitely , i am a morning person.  

04:06 PM Nov 22 2011 |

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