专题13 Why thinking makes us feel tired-高中英语【外刊·新闻·热点】素养提升拓展阅读课

Why thinking makes us feel tired 学生练习单外刊新闻精品阅读和练习 Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02161-5 https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/ scientists-explain-why-our-brains-feel-tired-after-thinking_x0002_really-hard/ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/11/health/cognitive-fatigue-study-wellness/index.html Frida 1. FEELING TIRED: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about feeling tired. Change partners often and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life? wondering / tired / study / question / answers / chemical / rest / tasks / power nap /behaviour / research / challenging / computer screen / letter / breaks / author / sleep Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. WARM-UP 3. SLEEP: Students A strongly believe everyone should sleep for at least eight hours a day; Students B strongly believe this isn't necessary. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 4. THINKING: What do you think about regarding these things? Are they happy thoughts? Why? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote. What You Think? Happy? Why? Money English Love Next weekend The world Dinner 5. NAP: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "nap". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 6. TIREDNESS: Rank these with your partner. Put the thinks that make you most tired thinking about at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings. • Money • Health • English • Work • Family • Friends • Social media • The World Have you ever wondered why thinking too much makes you tired? A new study has found out some answers to this question. Researchers from the