Screen time at bedtime

Screen time at bedtime

Poll

How many hours sleep do you get most nights?

• between 4-5

• between 5-6

• between 6-7

• between 8-9

• 10 or more

Multiple Choice

How many hours sleep do you think a teenager should get?

• 10

• 9

• 8

• 7

Open Ended

What was the last thing you did before going to sleep last night?

Do you find yourself yawning all day at school? You probably need more sleep - according to doctors, teenagers have to get at least nine hours' sleep a night. However, it's not just how much sleep you get that's important. What you do before you go to bed also has a huge effect on how feel the next day. If you spend time chatting to someone on social media, or reading a book on your e-reader, you are not alone. However, you ought to reduce your screen time at night. Although scientists are only just beginning to understand the full effects, the main message is that using devices before bedtime is not good for your health.

Multiple Choice

What is the main message in this paragraph

• You should read a book before bed

• You ought to limit the time on your phone before bed

• You must go to bed earlier

All devices' screens give out a large amount of blue light. That isn't a problem unless you want to go to sleep. This blue light affects the body's production of the sleep hormone, melatonin which can change your sleep patterns, or circadiam rhythms. So it isn't just getting to sleep that becomes hard, but the quality of your sleep also suffers. The result is that you can wake up several times during the night and have difficulty getting up in the morning

Multiple Choice

What suffers as a result of not producing melatonin

• Being able to get to sleep

• Getting up in the morning

• The quality of your sleep

Multiple Choice

Choose the best title for this paragraph

• What are technology companies doing about this?

• The dangers of not getting a good night's sleep

• What you should eat before you go to bed

• How to reduce your screen time

• The science of sleep and technology use

Sleep is food for the brain, so not sleeping well can be a serious problem for anyone, but is especially bad for teenagers, because their brains are still developing. When you don't sleep well, it can be difficult to concentrate at school, which makes it harder to learn and get good grades. It can also affect your mood, making you feel sad or anxious.

Multiple Select

What can become a problem if you don't get enough sleep

• growing

• concentration

• teaching

• learning

• being happy

Multiple Choice

What would be the best title for this paragraph?

• What are technology companies doing about this?

• The dangers of not getting a good night's sleep

• What you should eat before going to bed

• How to reduce your screen time

• The science of sleep and technology use

So, it's clear you shouldn't use your phone or tablet before you got sleep. Why not leave our phone in another room? You mustn't worry about your friends. Nothing on social media is so important that it can't wait a few hours! You should rediscover paper books and enjoy feeling tired and sleepy before bedtime rather than wondering why your best friend hasn't liked your photo! How will you wake up? You don't have to use the alarm on your phone. Go and buy yourself an old-fashioned alarm clock!

Multiple Choice

What should you do with your phone before going to bed?

• Turn it off

• Put it out of the room

• Check your messages

Multiple Choice

What would be the best title for this paragraph?

• What are technology companies doing about this?

• The dangers of not getting a good night's sleep

• What you should eat before going to bed

• How to reduce your screen time

• The science of sleep and technology use

The negative effects that screen time is having on sleep has been in the news a lot recently, so manufacturers of smartphones and tablets have added a feature to their devices that can help reduce these. Most new phones have a night-time setting that changes the colour of the screen so that it gives out less blue light. So, if you really can't avoid going onto social media at bedtime, you ought to think about turning on this setting on your phone.

Multiple Choice

Why have manufacturers added a night-time setting to their devices?

• To turn them off automatically

• To reduce the negative effects of the screen

• To stop you using social media before bed

Multiple Choice

What would be the best title for this paragraph?

• What are technology companies doing about this?

• The dangers of not getting a good night's sleep

• What you should eat before going to bed

• How to reduce your screen time

• The science of sleep and technology use

Multiple Select

Tick the correct form of the negative

• You shouldn't go

• You should don't go

• You oughtn't go

• You oughtn't to go

Multiple Choice

'I don't have to go to The English Centre' and 'I mustn't go to The English Centre' have the same meaning

• True

• False