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Sleepwalkers

Read the article again. Fill in the gaps in these

sentences with Gary, Adam or Fiona.
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What problems can people have with sleeping?

What can be done to help these people?

prepares for the nights sleepwalking

Read the blog about sleepwalkers. Match the

pictures to the people in the stories. Which
sleepwalker: is not a regular sleepwalker?
has a physical problem? is the most talented?

thinks there is probably a physical

reason for the sleepwalking.
activity.
lives in a rather unusual house.

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4

started sleepwalking when he/she

was a very small child.
can only sleep for short periods

atatime.
was unusually lucky.

might make some money from

sleepwalking.
started sleepwalking at the age

of 13.
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Which of the stories do you think is the most

http://www.sleepwalkerstories.net/stories

The sleepwalking artist

The sleepwalking chef

The sleepwalking teenager

By day Gary Brooks is a nurse, but by

night hes a sleepwalking artist who
produces strange and fantastic artworks
that he has no memory of drawing when
he wakes up the next morning.

Adam Frost, a 53-year-old chef, gets

up four or five times a week while hes
asleep and heads to the kitchen, where
he prepares omelettes, stir fries and
chips. He has been a sleepwalker for 40
years and his wife, Edith, is becoming
increasingly worried about her husband
having an accident while in the kitchen in
the middle of the night.

In May 2009, a sleepwalking teenager

stepped out of the bedroom window at
her historic castle home and fell almost
eight metres to the ground. Fiona Cooke
got out of bed and pulled on a jumper
before making her dramatic, unconscious
exit from the first floor of the nineteenthcentury house.She landed feet-first on
grass before collapsing. Semi-conscious,
Fiona screamed for help and her parents
took her to hospital. There, to the
amazement of doctors, tests revealed she
hadnt broken a single bone.

Brooks first started sleepwalking when

he was four years old. His sleepwalking
increased in his late teens and early
twenties, and Brooks would wake up
to find everything nearby tables,
newspapers, clothes and walls covered
in artwork.He started leaving artists
materials out when he went to bed
and, sure enough, when he woke up, he
would find finished pictures beside him.
During the day, Brooks shows no interest
or ability in art whatsoever. Despite this,
major galleries have asked for examples
of his work, which they hope to sell for its
artistic as well as its unusual qualities.

Adam now cant sleep for more than

three hours at a time. He believes that
the problem may be due to a stomach
ulcer. Because the painful condition only
allows him to eat very small portions,
he thinks his hunger might cause him
to head to the kitchen in his sleep. He is
currently seeking help from a number of
sleep specialists.

Fiona, a 20-year-old student, does not

usually sleepwalk and has no memory
of what happened.Dr Phil Machado,
director of the Chester Sleep Institute,
said sleepwalking out of a window was
not unique, but to completely escape
injury, as Fiona did, was remarkable.

A Adam Frost has a physical problem. B Gary Brooks is the most talented. C Fiona Cooke is not a regular sleepwalker.
1 Adam 2 Gary 3 Fiona 4 Gary 5 Adam 6 Fiona 7 Gary 8 Adam
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interesting? Why? What advice could you give

someone who has a problem with sleepwalking?