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Effective stress-management strategies can diminish the ill effects of stress.a. reduced in amount, size, or importance;b. become larger;c. become less;4. The presence of intact and strong social support networks among friends and family canhelp reduce the subjective experience of stress during the teen years.a. a very firm statement that you want something;202b. help and approval you give to a particular idea;c. the ability to recognize a person or thing;5. In severe cases, a physician can recommend treatments or counseling that can reduce thelong-term risks of teen stress.a. unfriendly and not smiling;b.
needing a lot of effort, skill, or ability;c. very serious and worrying.2. Complete the passage with words given below:Teen stress doubles risk of depression in adulthoodThe pressures of modern life may be more hazardous to our (1)…..health than previouslybelieved after scientists found there may be a link between the recent rise in mood disorders andthe (2)…..of daily stress.Stress as a teenager can lead to depression in later life, scientists saidProfessor Mark Ellenbogen, of Concordia University, Montreal, said: "Major depression hasbecome one of the most pressing health issues in both developing and developed countries."He believes stress is a major contributor to the rise in depression, a leading cause of(3)…..worldwide. It is a growing public health problem that the World Health Organizationidentified as affecting about 121 million people.His team is evaluating the stress of children living in families where at least one parent is(4)…..by a mood disorder.
They are measuring the levels of cortisol in their saliva (слюна).Children from at-risk families have higher cortisol levels and it seems to persist into adulthood.Prof Ellenbogen said: "Although there may be many causes to the rise in cortisol, this increasemay be in part due to exposure to family stress and parenting style.disability, mental, affected, increase(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8110451/Teen-stress-doubles-risk-ofdepression-in-adulthood.html)FREE PRACTICE1. a. Work in pairs. Imagine your teen daughter/son shows the symptoms of stress.Think of questions to find out what is happening to your daughter/son.b. Change your partner.
Student A is a parent, student B is a teen. Make aconversation between a parent and a daughter/son. (A parent asks the questions, a teenanswers them.)203UNIT 4. WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF POORLY MANAGEDSTRESS?Look at the pictureand answer the questions:1. How does the manfeel? Why?2.
What symptomsdoes he experience?READING TEXTRead the followingtext and choose three-fivekey words in eachparagraph of the text:What are the signs and symptoms of poorly managed stress?Excess stress can manifest itself in a variety of emotional, behavioral, and even physicalsymptoms, and the symptoms of stress vary enormously among different individuals. Commonsomatic (physical) symptoms often reported by those experiencing excess stress include sleepdisturbances, muscle tension, muscle aches, headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, andfatigue.
Emotional and behavioral symptoms that can accompany excess stress includenervousness, anxiety, changes in eating habits including overeating, loss of enthusiasm orenergy, and mood changes, like irritability and depression. Of course, none of these signs orsymptoms means for certain that there is an elevated stress level since all of these symptoms canbe caused by other medical and/or psychological conditions.It is also known that people under stress have a greater tendency to engage in unhealthybehaviors, such as excessive use or abuse of alcohol and drugs, cigarette smoking, and makingpoor exercise and nutritional choices, than their less-stressed counterparts.
These unhealthybehaviors can further increase the severity of symptoms related to stress, often leading to a"vicious cycle" of symptoms and unhealthy behaviors.The experience of stress is highly individualized. What constitutes overwhelming stress forone person may not be perceived as stress by another. Likewise, the symptoms and signs ofpoorly managed stress will be different for each person.LEXISGuess the meaning of the words.
Compare your answers with the dictionary:1. ache2. anxiety3. cause4. disturbance5. enormously6. fatigue7. irritability2048. manifest9. overwhelming10. sign11. tension12. vicious cycleCONTROLLED PRACTICE1. Match the words with their definitions:1.anxietya. the feeling of being so nervous or worriedthat you cannot relax2. disturbanceb. much larger, stronger, more importantthan anything else in a situation3.
manifestc. a process in which the existence of aproblem causes other problems, and thismakes the original problem worse4. overwhelmingd. a worried feeling you have because youthink something bad might happen5. tensione. to show something such as a feeling orability, so that it is easy you notice6. vicious cyclef. a situation in which someone’s mind orbody develops a problem and stops operatingin its usual way2.
Match the words in A with their close meaning in B:AB1. achea. exhaustion2.enormouslyb. shortness of temper3. fatiguec. signal4. irritabilityd. pain5. signe. extremely3. Match the words in A with the words in B to make a collocation:AB1. causea. feeling2. enormouslyb. cycle3. manifestc. problems2054. overwhelmingd. different5. viciouse. symptoms4.
Scan the derivatives and use them with words to make sentences:anxietydisturbance (n)enormously(adv)(n)anxious (adj)disturb (v)anxiously (adv)disturbed (adj)enormous (adj)irritabilitytension(n)(n)irritate (v)tense (adj)irritated (adj)irritating (adj)irritation (n)5. Fill the gaps in these sentences with words from below:1. Sleep ……. is one of the physical symptoms often reported among those experiencingexcess stress.2. Flu infection rates show no ……. of declining yet.3.
He had fallen into a ……. of drinking too much and then losing his job and then drinkingeven more.4. It’s the little things that begin to ……. you.5. Poor posture can cause neck ……., headaches and breathing problems.ache, disturbance, irritate, sign, vicious cycleREADING COMPREHENSION1. Read the text again and answer the following questions to the text:1. What are physical symptoms of excess stress?2. What are emotional and behavioral symptoms of excess stress?3.
What can these symptoms be caused by?4. What can unhealthy behaviors lead to?5. Is the experience of stress personalized?2. Choose the best explanation for words in bold in the sentences:1. Symptoms of stress vary enormously among different individuals.a. by a large amount;b. not having enough of something important;c. a very small amount;2. Common physical symptoms of excess stress include sleep disturbances, muscle aches,headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, and fatigue.a.
a way of understanding or expressing something;b. a feeling of being extremely tired, either physically or mentally;c. a pain that is continuous and unpleasant, but usually not very strong;3. Emotional and behavioral symptoms of excess stress include nervousness, changes ineating habits, loss of energy, and mood changes, like irritability and depression.a. something that makes you feel annoyed or impatient;206b. feeling alone and unhappy, with no friends to support you;c. feeling being unhappy, especially because something bad has happened;4. Indigestion is caused by excess acid in the stomach.a.
to make someone or something different from all others;b. to put a drug or another substance into your body through the skin;c. to make something happen, usually something bad;5. There are no signs of progress.a. a flat object with words or picture on it;b. a piece of evidence that something is happening or that something exists;c. a movement or sound you make that tells other people what you want.FREE PRACTICE1. Work in three groups. The first group discusses emotional symptoms of stress, thesecond – physical and the third – behavioral ones.
Give your own examples.2. Work in pairs. Ask your partner what symptoms of stress he/she has.UNIT 5. HOW CAN WE MANAGE STRESS?Look at the picture and answer the questions:1. What is the woman doing?2. Is it her hobby or profession?3. Do you think it is a way to manage stress?READING TEXTRead the following text and say how we canmanage stress:How can we manage stress?If we think about the causes of stress, the nature of the stress response, and the negativeeffects of some types of stress (prolonged, unexpected, or unmanageable stress), several healthymanagement strategies become clear. An important step in stress management is exercise. Sincethe stress response prepares us to fight or flee, our bodies are primed for action.
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