
Late nights: Bad for you?
Learning English from the News
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Do You Like Staying Up Late or Get Up Early?
The headline asks, what kind of sleep pattern you have? Do you prefer to stay up late, or do you like getting up early? There are two expressions in there for those two situations. Ok, so the one we're going to look at is a night owl. And what can you tell me about owls? Neal, well, owls are a type of bird, and they, hey, stay up all night. That's when they do their work, which is hunting,. So we call people who stay up late night owls. It means they stay up late but also they are mentally or physically active at night. Na, well, we can also see in the headline
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