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All-Nighter
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All-Nighter
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Used To

Date: Apr 09 2012

Themes: School, Work

Grammar: Used to Do vs Be Used to

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Staying up all night is fun when you’re partying with your friends. But pulling an all-nighter because you have a paper to write for school or a project to finish at your job is a different story. Unfortunately, if you put off doing your work until the last minute, you might have no choice. Hear Devan’s advice to Jeff about pulling an all nighter.

当你和朋友们聚会时,即便是彻夜不眠也会兴趣盎然。但如果因要撰写论文或者完成工作项目而“开夜车”时,就完全不同了。不幸的是,如果你将工作拖到最后,你会别无选择。听听德凡给杰夫有关开夜车的建议。

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Devan

Devan

Jeff

Jeff

Devan:  So what are you doing tonight? Do you want to go get a drink with me?

Jeff:  I don’t even want to talk about it.

Devan:  Why? What’s going on?

Jeff:  I went out too much, procrastinated, and now I have this huge project due tomorrow, 10 am. And I’m so tired, and I don’t have time for sleep.

Devan:  So you’re gonna pull an all-nighter tonight?

Jeff:  Oh I’m burning the midnight oil.

Devan:  That’s a bummer. I used to do those all the time in college. I always had to cram for exams the night before. But luckily I’m naturally already a night owl anyway, so that’s kind of when I thrive is at three in the morning.

Jeff:  So do I, but when the pressure’s on like that, it turns it into a different thing. It becomes this traumatic experience.

Devan:  That’s true. It does make it a lot more stressful when your deadline is rapidly approaching.

Jeff:  Yeah, tell me about it. Even though I am a night owl, it’s nice to wake up early, see the sun rise, hear the birds chirp. But when you’ve stayed up all night it kind of sours the experience.

 

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Devan asks Jeff if he wants to go get a drink with her. But Jeff has to stay at home and pull an all-nighter. He procrastinated and has a project due in the morning that he hasn’t started yet. Now he has to stay up all night getting his work done.

Devan used to procrastinate when she was in college. She would put off studying for tests or writing papers until the last minute. Then she would have to burn the midnight oil in order to get them done. Luckily, she is a night owl who has plenty of energy in the middle of the night.

Jeff also likes to stay up late sometimes, and he also likes seeing the sun rise. But he doesn’t like seeing the sun rise after staying up all night to finish a project.

Have you ever had to pull an all-nighter? Why? What did you do to make yourself stay awake?

 

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yasir shah

yasir shah

Pakistan

pulL an alL nightEr is a bad haBbiT but If a peRson haVe soMe some Tension or some haPpineSs so theY couLd noT be acess to SLeep at niGhT manY peopLe have  puLL an aLL nightER  habbiT coZ tHEy were take long nap so that WhY they pulL an alL nighTer

06:04 PM Apr 09 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

 OLA,  heheheheSmile

04:51 PM Apr 09 2012 |

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ola33

ola33

Japan

Julito, I’m not too, a party goer. We should break the habit! Laughing


And the years are flying, speeding up more and more when you are… over the hill. We should do something… stop the Eath or just make it rotating slower on its axis. Tongue out

04:48 PM Apr 09 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Dear Irene, according to your math , so far , about 25 years of my life  has gone  sleeping.  interesting  information.  We must live  the life ,is shorter than we think  of.Cry  

04:46 PM Apr 09 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

As i am not anymore a party goer  I like to turn in no late than midnight, otherwise next morning I will be a mess  .Unless they are gifted , college students  , in order to pass the examination, often have to pull an all-nighter  ,the silence of the night and the caffeine  helps them to stay focus  all night long. 

04:17 PM Apr 09 2012 |

thegreentree

Germany

oh i always pull an all night when i was at highschool and also now i used to stay up all night when i dont have work and i dont know why but i think because i am thinking and worried alot so i get stressed out and i dont know how to get rid of this even though i am a night owl when i have alot of work i cant stay up late  i dont know why  thats my habits


 

02:44 PM Apr 09 2012 |

riverboy

riverboy

Yemen

Wow this is a very important lesson, there are a lot of  vocabulary  which will help me,

I used to night owl when I was in the college, especially when the deadlines of the exams became close. I used to use coffee in order to pull an all nighter while some of my classmates used to use  KAt “Kat” is famous  in Yemen, and people in Yemen uses most of them. But for me I was put off the Kat

02:41 PM Apr 09 2012 |

Crizsearch

Crizsearch

Indonesia

I should not talk a lot anyway because everyone admits that there’s no choice to sleep early for college students, And I definitely an night owl and love to burn the mid night oil to study. And the next day I will surely drowsy and can’t think properly. My mother pushes me to sleep before midnight after knowing my health is getting weaker, and asks me to get up early to continue my study :D that’s help hehehe… I’m a learner so I don’t want to procrastinate my works and doing it at the last minute or otherwise I can’t thrive before deadline :D

02:07 PM Apr 09 2012 |

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01:17 PM Apr 09 2012 |

yenti

yenti

Indonesia

someone who likes to be late, alyaws stayingup late , can not recognize the time and can not be on time.

01:17 PM Apr 09 2012 |

i love life

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

Actually I would like to thank Ebaby for this nice topic I feel all this words here express about my real conditions , I have a lot of problems when the topic related about the sleep , I Think this essay talk about myself , I want to confess after All thing happened with me I guess the only thing give you some comfortable is when you go to bed early , when you organized your time sleep , I didn’t see any useful to staying up at late time .


I have some bad habits  , I lost  my comfortable I Can’t sleeping well , I am familiar go to my bed in late time , Unfortunately I can’t dispose of this .


I should think about my health more than anything else , when I was teenager I was prefer to staying up more than go to bed early .


In my opinion we should care of ourselves when God created us as the same time when He gave us many blessing we should know the health is one of more thing precious in our lives .


mostly of my friends love sleeping , I want to say our lives has become many things worth to staying up all the night everything is change .


these days if you want to be modern person you should to be familiar on the quickly life , there are many damage if you prefer staying al the night , but as the same time often there are some enjoyment when you stay until daybreak .


if you love night say what do you think , but the truth is sleeping useful more anything else , we can’t countinue in our lives if we didn’t change some of our bad habits .


Good Luck to All people who are love staying up until Late time .


01:02 PM Apr 09 2012 |

Olga_Alina

Germany

I drink a lot of coffee to stay awake. Definitely it is not healthy.


So I always try to hold the deadline (without pulling all-night). This can take a lot of effort and self-discipline.

12:14 PM Apr 09 2012 |

brawn

United Arab Emirates

I prefer to get up early rather than to stay late.


any way it depend on to people get used to it



Dubai

12:03 PM Apr 09 2012 |

Irene Forever

Ukraine

I just love nighttime. At night when nobody disturbs me, I love to do something my heart longs for. I’m really creative at that time, but  I still have a limit. After 3 A.M. I feel deadly sleepy, but as soon as I rest my head on the pillow, my sleepiness leaves me.:)  Currently I do nothing to stay awake. Nevertheless I teach myself  to sleep at night, and I manage it.:)


As for pulling an all-nighter, I remember doing it when I studied. Plenty of coffee and cheese were my helpers.


 As Fran Lebowitz said, “Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.” Wink



Faced with these accounts:



  • at age 30 sleep 4.339 days (11,9 years)

  • at age 40 sleep 5.556 days (15,2 years)

  • at age 50 sleep 6.773 days (18,6 years)

  • at age 60 we have slept 7.990 days (21,9 years)

  • at age 70 we have slept 9207 days (25,2 years)

  • at age 80 we have slept 10.424 days (28,6 years)

  • at age 90 already slept 11.641 days (31,9 years)

  • at age 100, we have slept 12.858 days (35,2 years)


What about much sleep now? Tongue out


FUN777

FUN777

Egypt

Well, i’m the best person to do that. I know it’s a bad habit, but i can’t rid of it, i remember when i was at high school i have a final Arabic exam and i had to stay up all night till morning, so i went to the exam directly without one minute sleep. It was one of my strangest experiences in my life.

08:09 AM Apr 09 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

I have no experience to pull an all-nighter. I hate it.


I’m an early-bird ( agree with Ola33). I know in advance my work at night will never be productive. I try do not  put off  any tasks I have got. 


The result will be much better if my work will be done in time – not in the last minute. Procrasctination is not for me.

strong20006

Yemen

sleeping early and weaking up early are good for my health.I feel i’m new person every morning .When i sleep late my head hurt me.Our bodies need 7 hours sleep at night when there is no any light.

07:00 AM Apr 09 2012 |

oalkathiri

oalkathiri

United Arab Emirates

it is really fantastic dialoge between them i like it and learnt many new vocabloary go on, we need like this dialoges in the futur


 


my regard

06:27 AM Apr 09 2012 |

englishteacher24/7

United States

This is a very good dialogue lesson that would be beneficial in learning conversational English.

Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset :


but i told you to :


Stay away from chewing Qat.


Stop smoking a cigarette.


- Avoid people who are smoking. If possible,


- stay away from situations that trouble you .


 


Baset : you  promise me !

03:20 AM Apr 09 2012 |

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