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    fae iy th Bio Pe eur 4 O_ CVery, very carefull Aves, O Eo, don't need any! Seer nrg) ry easily ERM renee Meee C Mainly negative O CYes always ‘A Regularly O AG-a glasses a day. B Occasionally 3-5 glasses a day. O_ENo, thank you! than 3 glasses a day. Date A Every day. > AOften, B Sometimes E Occasionally E Not very often. DC Rarely, 1, Talk to other people and answer the questions. 1. When wa 2. Can you think of three words to go with each ofthe photos? time you fet ki + the photos above! Why? What did you do about it? 2. Do the quiz above. Then look at the key and do the activities on page 136. 3 WaENAEISTENALELE Find people who get stressed for some of these reasons. Sewer vert) dewits ison) Le Ea, ibe & iis, eax) oe Lesson 1 How did you react? 1, [IEEIINIS Do the Stress Test ~ fast! You have 20 seconds, g starting .. now! Read the four sentences Which food does this animal ke best TH Test om: 2 mses sal animals than net a..4 j 3, Itdoesn't tke fish as much as fruit 4. It cislkes small animals more than fish What Which food does it lke least? imal i 2. How did you react to the test? Mark all the boxes that apply. A found it stress C1 1 got excted Oi 1 fet fusrated i ‘found it contsing. Oi I panicked Dt gave up! Dy kewae challenging Do My mind went bank. Tt got arxious Dt froze. 1 tot aery oi 3. Was taking the test a positive or negative experience for you? Relea -ed | -ing adjectives 4, G Complete the table, Then read out the words. Be careful! One adjective is different. How? 5. 6. Which adjectives in Exercise 4 describe ... 2 Listen and check your answers. Mark the stressed syllables. 1a) how someone feels? b) the people or things that cause those feelings? 7. Work with a partner. Talk about the kinds of things you find exciting, challenging, stressful. 8. Complete the first part of the article Taking a Test with words from Exercise 4. Taking a Test Tests make many people anxious. Even the word test can produce anxiety or fear. Being under time pressure is" s for some people, too. While some of you maybe felt? or i its perfectly natural if many of you panicked or felt anxious or * or® {Ifyou did, just take a moment to get rid of the tension so that you can feel “r again. Do something physical. Stand up and stretch, jump up and down, or run in place! Do it right now! So what happens to us when we're under stress? Well, very often, our! n____ and. tense up, our ® h. beats faster and our breathing gets quicker (or stops altogether!) Our * m. and a go dry so we can’t swallow and we get “butterflies” in our®s________. We get confused: our? e_______can't see properly and our * e___can't hear properly. And, worst of all, our* m_______ goes completely blank, and we can’t think properly! \Words connected with the body 13. Now complete the second part of the article with some of these words. Which word is different and why? fears eyes hands heart mind mouth neck nose shoulders stomach throat toes, 10. Did any of the things mentioned in the article happen to you when you took the test? Which ones? Sua te 11. Divide the words into two groups: stressful or not stressful. ty country exercise. work —freshair gardening heart attack insomnia phone pressure sleep therapist tired —traficjam = walk 12. 692» [EINS=E Look at the cartoons and answer the questions. Then listen and check, 1. What's the situation? 2. What do you think the people are saying? 13, Talk about the questions, Listen again if you need to. 1, What does Steve Els do all day? 2. What do the phones do? 3, What always happens on his way hone? 4, What can't he do at night? 5, What happens twice during the conversation? 6, What is the therapists advice? Do you agree? soy. much better ifyou alte. Zier 15. Look at the pictures and make predictions about Steve. “Tf he bikes to work, he'll get there qucker, and lose come weight 16. Wrie and act out your version of the conversation in Exercise 12. 17. What do you think happened next? Write a short ending to the story.Then check on page 137. Lesson 2 Face-to-face with a bear! You first! ‘Imagine youre face- ‘to-face with this bear | What would you do? How very dificult to deal does it alking about a very old survival mechan were hunter-gatherers and obtain work? animals and plants, In those days, the mec auickly if they were in physic nat do bears have to forest, and they came acros .ormones" ke adrenalin and cor stress for along 10 line could be Genta 1. GWhich of these words are connected with the body? How do they relate to the stress response mechanism? bear blood vessel brain danger heart hormone illness immune system infection kangaroo muscle pizza skin stomach survival trouble stress response mechanism 77 ‘the automatic reaction we have vo a dangerous situation | 2. What do you already know about this mechanism? Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). | 1. The stress response mechanism is new: 4. When we get stressed, wee get less blood in our brain 2 When we are under stress, our brain hesitates before and muscles, taking action, 5. The stress response mechanism is more useful for mental 3. When we are stressed, our heart rate, breathing rat, rather than physical stress. and blood pressure all go up. 6, Long-term stress can cause minor ilesses, but not major ones 3. Now read the article on page 48 to check your answers from Exercises 1 and 2. 4. Find words or phrases in the article that mean ... 1. made possible 3. every time 5. get better 7. eliminate 2. started to take effect 4, cause a change in 6, use all of something 8 harm 5. Guess the meaning of the words and phrases in bold from the context. {6 Read the article again. Then look at the diagram on page 137 and follow the instructions. 2) Complete the diagram with the missing words. Only look back at the article f youre really stuck! 'b) Work in pairs. Use your completed diagram to tak about how the stress response mechanism works Take notes if you want to ©) Now use the diagram and your notes to write a very short description ofthe stress response mechanism. GRAMMAR ‘our body unless we 8 Look at the advice the therapist gave Steve in Lesson 1 (see Transcript 2.3 on page 161). Rewrite each piece of advice using unlecs instead af if | SPEAKING * 9. Work in small groups. Talk about how you can reduce your stress. Come up with five ways to help you de-stress.

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