English Listening Practice British Council Podcast - Beating stress

Have you ever heard of bagpipe before? In this English listening practice today, let’s find some information of stress shortly, before our english listening lesson.

English listening practice - Stress

What is stress?

Stress is the feeling we have when under pressure. Stress is fight or flight response, our fight-or-flight response is our body's sympathetic nervous system reacting to a stressful event. Moreover, how you react to a challenge may be considered as a type of stress, and part of this response affect your physical state. When faced with a challenge or a threat, your body activates resources to protect you - to either get away as fast as you can, or fight.

The following symptoms happen when having stress:

1. Blood pressure rises
2. Breathing becomes more rapid
3. Digestive system slows down
4. Heart rate (pulse) rises
5. Immune system goes down
6. Muscles become tense
7. We do not sleep (heightened state of alertness)

This is a short definition about stress.

Short Description

In this English listening practice, this is an interview with financial trader who talk about stress and how to deal with it. In this conversation, He define how stress is, and talk about his daily activity.

Tip to practice the english listening more effectively

So the tip for listening practice is to do exercise at the first half of the video, then taking few minutes to check the answer. Finally, you will listen this English practice with subtitle for one more time ,so you can check the spelling and check your answer. At the end of the video, there are answers for the task.

You can find the step-by-step instruction here

English Lesson

Extra task

Before starting the video, we take a look on some questions below

1. What does the financial trader intend to do to avoid stress at the weekend?
2. Are there effective rules to beat stress?
3. Does he, our main character in this English listening practice, like stressful aspect in his job? How does he think about it?

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