• Describe a time when you were tired but you had to stay awake
  You can say: 

• • why you were tired

• • why you had to stay awake

• • what you did to avoid falling asleep

“I’ve always been a night owl and it’s gotten worse since the start of this year. I don’t know why but I tend to scroll through my phone looking at all the feeds on my SM until really late. So a story I want to talk about is one Sunday, because I’m a freelance teacher I usually get quite a lot of lessons to teach on weekends, since most of my students are adults. I remember being really exhausted one Sunday morning teaching a student a full 2-hour English lesson, and after that I had to go out and continue teaching for another 4 or 5 hours. I don’t remember exactly, but that’s kind of event that you can kind of imagine where I was absolutely knackered, however, it’s my source income, so I kept drinking coffee, in the end I drank 3 full cups of coffee and still it was just killing me that the feeling exhaustion had stayed with me – so when I got home I just crashed, and I even though I slept for 12 hours, it couldn’t really make up for the previous night, and to make matters worse is that I still had a stomach-ache. So I shouldn’t have drunk so much coffee.”

• Phrase: a night owl – a person who stays up late into the night, or goes to bed very late

• Collocation: scroll through your phone

• Vocab: feed (n.) – your main social media front page or wall

• Phrase / British Slang: absolutely knackered – extremely tired or exhausted

• Verb: I crashed – I fell asleep instantly or very quickly

• Phrasal Verb: make up for – compensate for something

• Phrase: to make matters worse – to make a bad situation even worse

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Thanks to You Shan for the answers.