1、Unit 1 Life Choices Lesson 2 Understanding and Coping with Stress Warming up Do you find these situations stressful or relaxing? Can you think of other similar situations? Stressful or Relaxing? Study/Work Taking exams Social Situations meeting a friend in a caf downtown Leisure Activities doing exe
2、rcise causes of stress kinds of people suffering from stress different levels of stress stress and success ways to reduce stress You are going to listen to a radio interview about stress. Tick() the information you think will be discussed. Task 1 Listen to the interview. Check your predictions. Writ
3、e the aspects mentioned in the left column in Activity 4. Task 2 Answers: 1 kinds of people suffering from stress 2 causes of stress 3 ways to reduce stress Listen again. Take notes with detailed information in the right column. Then compare your notes with your partner. Task 3 kinds of people suffe
4、ring from stress teachers, doctors, factory workers, newspaper editors, the police, the military causes of stress pressure from work or study Social situation (shy people) ways to reduce stress organise work and studies eat well; exercise often talk to a friend, a teacher or family members seek prof
5、essional help Listen again. Answer the questions. 1 When do students suffer from stress? 2 What situations can be difficult for shy people? 3 What is a good way to organise your work or studies? Task 4 Answers: 1 Students suffer from stress when they have too much homework and when they feel like th
6、ey dont have enough time to finish all their work. 2 Social situations, like parties, are difficult for shy people. 3 A good way to organise your work or study is to make a list and do all the important things first. Dr. King is an expert on stress. In his talk, he believes everyone 1 stress at some
7、 point in their lives, from teachers, doctors and factory workers to 2 . However, some jobs may be more stressful than others, like some 3 in the police or the 4 . Dr. King thinks there are different causes of 5 . But more often than not, its 6 pressure from work or study. Students with lots of home
8、work can feel 7 when they dont have enough time to finish everything. Dr. King also discusses social pressure and how to some 8 it can also cause stress. In particular, shy people can find social situations very stressful-like going to parties. Dr. King also suggests some ways to 9 stress and 10 , f
9、or example, you can 11 your work or studies, you must eat well and exercise often and you can also talk to people about your problems. Dr. King ends his talk by advising people who become too stressed and cant 12 properly to seek 13 help. Complete the summary with words from the interview. Task 5 FO
10、CUS ON FUNCTION: EXPRESSING LIKES AND DISLIKES Listen to a student talking about stress. Complete the table. Task 6 Stressful ActivitiesRelaxing Activities Answers: 1 suffers from 2 newspaper editors 3 positions 4 military 5 stress 6 due to 7 very stressed 8 extent 9 reduce10 tension 11 organize 12
11、function 13 professional Task 5 Stressful ActivitiesRelaxing Activities Task 6 doing exams going to parties talking in front of the class in French lessons talking to friends listening to music reading sitting around and doing nothing at all Listen and imitate. Complete the Talk Builder. Expressing
12、Likes and Dislikes 1 I really doing exams. 2 I going to parties very much. 3 I meeting people in small groups. 4 I talking in front of the class. 5 I taking to my friends. 6 I listening to music. 7 I reading. 8 I sitting around and doing nothing! love like enjoy quite like dont mind dont like cant s
13、tand hate Task 7 Answers: 1 hate 2 dont like 3 dont mind 4 cant stand 5 love 6 enjoy 7 like 8 quite like Homework Pair Work Tell each other the kinds of stress you often suffer from. Then, share your experiences and the activities you like or dislike in coping with those stresses. 知识讲解知识讲解 suffer vt
14、. &vi.遭受(痛苦) (教材P12) kinds of people suffering from stress 各种遭受压力的人 (1)suffer from/for/by 受的苦；遭受(痛苦) suffer hunger 挨饿 (2)sufferer n. 受苦者；受难者 suffering n. 痛苦；苦难；折磨 He suffers a lot from his disability. 他因为自己的残疾遭受了很多痛苦。 The pains and sufferings (suffer) caused by the road accident were so great that t
15、he whole family couldnt live happily. 这次交通事故造成的痛苦如此之大，全家人再也无法幸福地生活下去了。 reduce vt. 减少，降低，缩小 (教材P12)ways to reduce stress 减少压力的方法 reduce from起点 从降低，减少 reduce to终点 减少到 reduce by程度 减少了 The number of employees was reduced from 40 to 25. 雇员人数从40减到了25。 The workforce has been reduced by half. 劳动力已经减少了一半。 Al
16、l the shirts in my shop have been reduced to ￥50. 我店里的所有衬衫都减价到五十元了。 . 单词拼写 根据汉语或首字母提示，写出下列单词 1I went (市区) to watch a flick with my roommate yesterday. 2Violence is now becoming a regular (特点) of urban life. 3He went through all the computers (功能)with me. 4His family all kinds of hardships during the
17、 war. 5He had to take a holiday in America. 知识巩固知识巩固 . 选词填空 deal with as well as To be frank 选用上述短语的适当形式填空 1She can play tennis basketball. 2I have no way yet as to how to such a situation. 3 , he is not an able man. 参考答案：参考答案： . 1. downtown 2. feature 3. functions 4. suffered 5. intended . 1. as well as 2. deal with 3. To be frank THANK YOU
