STRESS

1.       Answer the questions

What are some things that make you feel stressed?

Have you experienced any stressful situations recently? How did these situations make you feel physically? 

What do you do to relieve your stress?

What are some common signs that someone is stressed? 

What are some positive/ negative ways that people deal with stress?

How can you eliminate stressfull situation? How can you live a stress-free life?

How can you help somebody who is feeling stressed? 

Do you think our lives are getting more stressful or less stressful?

   2.       Choose the sentences which you think are true, correct the false ones

Moderate short-term stress can be beneficial.

All kinds of stress are equally  harmful.

Long-term stress can strengthen our natural defences and  protect us from illnesses.

Good stress can repair brain cells.

Stress damages the cells in our body.

  3.       Vocabulary

a moderate amount of stress

common cold

cardiovascular disease

increased risk of dying

pound (about a heart)

break into a sweat

anxiety

cope with

stressed out

anxious

heart rate

blood vessels

constrict 

   4.    Watch the beginning of the talk called “How to make stress your friend” 

·         What is Kelly’s first question?

·         How much stress have the majority of the people had in their lives recently?

·         What is Kelly’s job and how does she define her mission?

·         What attitude did she use to have towards stress?

·         What is Kelly’s confession?

·         What do you think the talk will be about? 

   

  5. Watch the video again and complete the transcript below. 

      



          6. Grammar in action
      But I fear that something I've been teaching for the last 10 years is doing more harm than good. For years I've been telling people, stress makes you sick. 

 
          7.  Watch the second part of the talk. Explain how the study was conducted and what the results were. Do the findings of the research surprise you? 

         8.       In the next part of the talk Kelly suggests that the audience do a test. What is it? What can we learn from it? What is Kelly’s advice? 

         9.       Discussion

Has this talk changed the way you view stress? How will you behave next time when you're stressed out? 

Homework

1. Watch the whole talk and write down any facts you find interesting. 

2. Read this letter

I’m starting my first part-time job next Saturday, and I’m incredibly nervous about it. It’s a retail clothes shop with nice people that work there, but I just can’t seem to ease my nerves. I don’t know what to do about it. I overthink everything and always see the worst in myself and every situation. So this is no different, and I can’t stop thinking about it, which is stressing me out, and I can’t seem to concentrate or lighten my mood. I’m so worried I’ll mess up or that they won’t like me working there because of my lack of confidence. Do you have any advice about first job anxiety? 

Thanks.

Rita

Write a reply giving Rita advice on how to handle stress. 

Downloadable transcript
Stress related vocabulary
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