Outlines

Here, we will provide outlines of both texts you have to analyse – the video clip and the article.

I: Is your smartphone ruining your sleep?

Author: BBC News
Genre: Video
Year of Publication: 2014

The video clip “Is your smartphone ruining your sleep?” is part of a BBC News segment. The news presenters interview a psychologist, Professor Richard Wiseman from University of Hertfordshire.

At the beginning, Wiseman explains that the average adult needs about eight or eight-and-a-half hours of sleep at night, while a teenager would need about nine or nine-and-a-half hours of sleep to feel rested. When asked about whether the population in Britain actually sleeps such hours, Wiseman is pessimistic and reveals that, according to a study, two-thirds of the population get...

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II: How much can an extra hour’s sleep change you?

Author: BBC
Genre: Article
Year of Publication: 2013

The article “How much can an extra hour’s sleep change you?” was published in 2013 on the BBC website, in the section “Magazine”. The article begins by explaining that sleep schedules have varied over the years and that, nowadays, people do not realise the importance of sleep.

Michael Mosley, a BBC journalist, producer and presenter, decides to take part in an experiment meant to show the effect of an extra hour of sleep. Seven participants were split into two groups; the first group had to sleep for six-and-a-half hours a night,...

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