VIP Class Notes (Celeste)***

Finish the second half of the STRESS article.   Write it more naturally, like you’re speaking to a friend.

example:

There are many kinds of stress.

Some of them are.

1. Have stress, or be stressed, which means….
2. People can also stress out, when they do this….

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There are many terms connected to emotional and mental health from this article.
1. Stress : it might/could happen when a person is being judged or measured. For example…   If a person is at work they can feel stress easily because they are in an environment where they are being judged often.
2. Stress out : that means they feel more stress than they can deal with. They are overstressed.
3. Depression : a mood disorder, low in spirits, and a feeling of constant sadness
4. Anxiety :  is a state of worry and unease, always waiting for sth to happen
5. Phobias : they are extreme or unreasonable fear or dislike of something.
(Aviophobia, Acrophobia, Claustrophobia, Arachnophobia…etc)
6. Panic attack – sudden overwhelming feeling which is brought on by stress, usually harmless, but a person who is suffering a panic attack might feel like they are going to die.

Grammar

There have/There has  – There is or are / There was or were
eg. There have a pillow. – There is a pillow.  There are 2 pillows. / There was a pillow. There were 2 pillows.
eg. There are 2 cups. There is one package of tissues. / There were 2 cups. There was one package of tissues.
eg. There are a lot of flowers. There are some families. / There were a lot of flowers. There were some families.
eg. There are colorful fishes. There is some coral. / There were some colorful fishes. There was some coral.
eg. Yesterday I went to La Strada and there were a lot of people.

Vocabulary

I have a fear of round. – I have a fear of circles

READ THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR NEXT CLASS

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Boat Sinks in Columbia

At least six people died and 15 are missing after a pleasure cruiser sank into a reservoir near Medellin in Colombia.

People rescued most of the passengers, around 130, and the search for the missing passengers continues. Families, friends and residents are devastated by the incident, which the police are investigating as a crime. People laid flowers next to the lake in response to the incident.

There had been complaints about a lack of life jackets on board the ship.

Difficult words: pleasure cruiser (a boat that people ride to have fun), reservoir (a man-made lake), devastated (very sad and shocked).

Pronunciation

judged ( judg – d )

spirits (speer – rits)

sadness ( sad – niss )

anxiety ( ang zzzai – itee )