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Is it possible to choose your dreams?
Richard Wiseman

About a year ago, I began working with app developers Yuza to create an iPhone app that would attempt to influence people's thoughts and imagery while they are dreaming. Today we're unveiling our creation and are now looking for thousands of volunteers to help discover whether it really is possible to create the perfect dream.

Taking part is simple. Start by downloading the free Dream:ON app. Then, before you go to sleep, open the app and indicate when you want to wake up, and select one of our pre-programmed dreams, such a walk in the woods or lying on a beach. (The app comes with three free dreams. You can buy others if you want, but that's not necessary to take part in the study.) Finally, place your iPhone on your bed and go to sleep.

Dream:ON will monitor your movements 20 minutes before you want to wake up. If the app detects a sudden lack of movement – indicative of you dreaming – it will quietly play a carefully crafted soundscape of your desired dream (birds tweeting, waves lapping against the shore). At the end of your dream, the app wakes you up with a gentle alarm and asks you to submit a short description of your dream. These are stored in our database and will be used to examine whether the soundscapes do influence people's dreams.

Research from sleep laboratories suggests that it should indeed be possible to give people their desired dreams and help them wake up feeling happy and refreshed. But is that really the case? To find out, we need your help.

I Upotrebite fraze iz teksta koje su podebljane u tekstu koji ste pročitali:

1. What are you _____________?
2. - Sorry, did I _____________?
    - No, I wasn’t sleeping.
3. Did you _____________ who took your mobile phone?
4. Sam invited us to _____________ the concert with her.
5. The money will be _____________ help the poor children.
6. We decided to _____________ in the game since the whole event was for charity.

II Dopišite izostavljena slova:

pos_ible
in_luence
r_sear_h
ref_es_ed
de_el_per
u_veil
su_ges_
mon_tor

III Koristeći rečnik dopišite izostavljene reči:

developer (n) -  _____________ (v)
desired (adj.) - _____________ (v)
submit (v) - _____________ (n)
description (n) - _____________ (v)
research (n) - _____________ (v)
suggest (v) - _____________ (n)
possible (adj.) - _____________ (n)
refreshed (adj.) - _____________ (v)

IV Dopišite reči koje su izostavljene u rečenicama:

1. Don’t forget to _____________ your reports by the end of this week.
2. The equipment was installed to _____________ any movements.
3. Those boys have a really bad _____________ on him, he really shouldn’t spend time with them.
4. John _____________ to fix the computer, but it was useless.
5. The leading actor refused to _____________ the plot of the new movie.
6. He _____________ that we should help her as soon as possible.

Vaše odgovore možete proveriti ovde.

Slična vežbanja:

Reading - Comprehension (Andy Murray)
Reading - Comprehension (Coffee)
Reading - Comprehension (Yoga)

Postoji nekoliko razlika kod upotrebe nastavka –se i nastavka –ce na kraju reči:

- Imenica ili glagol (Noun or verb):

advice (n)        advise (v)

device (n)        devise (v)

- Britanski ili američki engleski (British or American English):

defence            defense

offence             offense

pretence           pretense

- Britanski ili američki engleski (British or American English):

British:               licence (n)       license (v)

                         practice (n)     practice (v)

American:         license (n) or (v)

                        practice (n) or (v)

I Pogledajte značenja glagola sa slike a zatim uradite vežbanje ispod u kom je potrebno dopisati jedan od ponuđena tri predloga:

put aside – save

put away – store, tidy

put down – record something, write

put off – postpone

put out – extinguish

put up with – tolerate

1. You have to put some money _________ every month.

a) up with
b) down
c) aside

2. Let me put that _________ on the paper.

a) up with
b) down
c) aside

3. Put _________ your toys after you’ve finished playing.

a) away
b) aside
c) off

4. We’ll have to put _________ the meeting for next Monday.

a) off
b) out
c) aside

5.  I can’t put _________ that horrible noise any more.

a) away
b) out
c) up with

6. The fireman managed to put _________ the fire very quickly.

a) away
b) out
c) up with

7. They can’t put _________ a decision much longer.
a) off
b) out
c) aside

8. I’m not putting _________ with his behavior any more.

a) away
b) out
c) up with

Vaše odgovore možete proveriti ovde.

Slična vežbanja:
Frazalni glagol TAKE
Frazalni glagol GIVE

Poslušajte pesmu Our Lives grupe The Calling, a zatim uradite vežbanja u vezi sa pesmom, koja se nalaze ispod:

I Dopišite reči koje su izostavljene:

Is there love, tonight
When everyone's dreaming
Of a better life
In this world _________ by fear, we've got to believe that
There's a reason we're here
Yeah, there's a _________ we're her, oh, yeah

'Cause these are the days _________ living
These are the years we're given
And these are the _________
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives

See the _________ all around
Our _________ can be broken
And our hands can be _________
But open our hearts and fill up the _________
With nothing to stop us, is it not worth the risk?
Yeah, is it not worth the risk? No, yeah

'Cause these are the days worth living
These are the years we're given
And these are the moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives

And even if _________ was _________
I know it wouldn't matter
'Cause these are the moments
These are the times
Let's make the best out of our lives

We can't go on
Thinking it's wrong
To speak our minds
I've got to let out what's inside

Is there love, tonight
When everyone's dreaming
Well, can we get it right?
Yeah, can we get it right?

II Dopuniti rečenice koristeći reči koje ste dopisali u tekstu pesme u prethodnom vežbanju:

1. Her CDs are ________________ into several categories: pop, rock, blues...
2. Please stop lying to me and tell me the ________________.
3. Could you give me even one good ________________ to stay here?
4. She told me that her ________________ has given her enough courage to deal with her loss.
5. His job kept him ________________ to Boston, although he had always wanted to move to San Francisco.
6. All of his dreams were ________________ after he had lost his job and after his wife had left him.
7. We had to postpone our trip for a few days because of the weather, but it was ________________ it.
8. After his children left the feeling of loneliness and ________________ overwhelmed him.
9. She lost ________________ of getting back together with Tom, after he introduced her to his new girlfriend.
10. The sun was shining and the ________________ later it started raining.

III Delove teksta prepisati tako da umesto skraćenih oblika upotrebite potpune oblike (when everyone's dreaming → when everyone is dreaming):

1. We've got to believe
2. There's a reason
3. We're here
4.  The years we're given
5.  I know it wouldn't matter

Vaše odgovore možete proveriti ovde.