Listening 3

Managing stress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpQrMqDoqE
(transcript: http://www.allreadable.com/872bFeLR)

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One little piece of paper can have a remarkable effect – stress, is stressful.

But if you understand a bit about what it is, will be better able to deal with it. First though, take a few deep breaths. In fact, do that anytime you feel stressed, it helps.

Stress is a survival mechanism.

When danger appears, it can get you out of trouble quickly. Your body crashes up the gears and throws all its resources into getting you moving. Your heart pumps furiously to increase blood pressure. Glucose is sent to the muscles as fuel injection and you become totally focused on what psychologists call fight or flight.

Thing is, this emergency state is only meant to last just long enough get you out of danger. But, here, in the 21st century, we stress about different things and for much much longer.

Your brain and body stay on red alert and you will be less to think clearly learn or remember things.

Take a few more deep breaths, because as you now know, stress is a physical reaction and deep breathing helps to counteract its affects.

So, what else can you do? Okay top tips to reduce stress. First, get plenty of exercise let out all the locked up energy. Now back to the problem, get in control. Scope out the situation and how you're going to tackle it.

Don't stress alone. Talk to someone. Socialize and have a laugh. You can't laugh and quake with fear at the same time.

Get down with nature, on a big or small-scale and if your mind, won't stop worrying.

Get something else to do, instead.

TO PRACTISE

1.   If you understand what stress is, you can ___________ it. 

2.   If you feel stressed you have to take a few_________________, because it helps.

3.   Take a few deep breaths _____________ you feel stressed. 

4.   Stress is a ______________mechanism when danger appears.

5.   Stress can ________ you out of trouble quickly.

6.   When you feel stressed, your body throws all its _____________ into getting you moving.

7.   When your heart pumps furiously increase__________________ and glucose is sent to the _____________.

8.   In the past, the emergency state of stress stayed just long enough get you out of___________.

9.   In the 21^st century, we stay stressed for much___________.

10.               If your brain and body stay on red alert, you will be less to think clearly, ___________ and remember things.

11.               Stress is a _________ reaction.

12.               To reduce stress, first get plenty of ______________, let out all the_______________ energy.

13.               To reduce stress, don´t stress alone, talk to ____________, socialize and have a ___________.

14.               If your mind won´t stop ____________, get something else to do instead.

15.               This video is about the effects of ____________ and how you can ______________ its effects.

KEY

1.   deal with

2.   deep breaths

3.   anytime/ when

4.   survival

5.   get

6.   resources

7.   blood pressure ____ muscles

8.   danger

9.   longer

10.               learn

11.               physical

12.               exercise____locked up

13.               someone____laugh

14.               worrying

15.               counteract

ANOTHER PRACTISE:

1- What happened? A little ______of paper has left a ______ me.
2- Stress is ______. First, you have to ______ what happened and then you must breathe ______.
3- Stress is a survival's ______.
4- According to the video, when a danger appears, stress can get you out of trouble ______.
5- When you have stress, your body ______ glucose to the muscles as a fuel injection.
6- In 21st Century, people have stress for different motives than in the past, and it is much ______.
7- The video says that if we have stress our brain and body work under ______ and our way of think, learn and remember things is ______.
8- According to the video, counteract the effects of stress can be done through ______.
9- Doing exercise can help you to ______ the stressful situation.
10- To reduce stress is useful have a ______ and ______ with nature.
11- A tip to reduce stress is ______ with someone.
12- If you laugh, you can ______ stress.
13- Another tip to reduce stress is contact with ______.

POSSIBLE ANSWERS 
1-   Piece; mark able.
2-   Stressful; know; deeply.
3-   Mechanism.
4-   Quickly.
5-   Sends.
6-   Longer.
7-   Pressure; faster.
8-   Deep breathing.
9-   Get in.
10- Laugh; get down.
11- Talk.
12- Reduce – control.

13- Nature

ANOTHER EXERCISE:

1- First, you have to think about what happened and then you must breathe ______.

2- Stress is a survival's ______.

3- According to the video, when a danger appears, stress can get you out of trouble ______.

4- When you have stress, your body ______ glucose to the muscles.

5- In 21st Century, people have stress for different ________ than in the past.

6- When we are under stress, we think less ________

7- You can ____________ the effects of stress by breathing deeply.

8- Doing __________ is the first top tip to reduce stress.

9- Another tip to reduce stress is _________ with someone and having a _________

SOLUTIONS

1.       Deeply

2.       Mechanism

3.       Quickly

4.       Sends / injects

5.       things / motives / reasons

6.       Clearly

7.       Counteract / reduce

8.       Exercise /sport

9.       Talking / speaking / socializing; laugh