EL ESTRES

Power point presentation with accompanying worksheet.

All tasks are based on authentic Spanish resources, in line with the new GCSE requirements.

Learning Objectives:
1. To learn key vocabulary regarding stress (ALL).
2. To give advice on how to keep stress levels in check (MOST).
3. To learn how to tackle original, un-edited reading materials in Spanish (SOME).

List of activities:
1. Stress symptoms: Students to match English and Spanish statements, followed by an oral task (class survey) for recap on adverbs of frequency ("¿Con qué frecuencia estás estresado/a?").
2. Panic attack: Students to translate the different steps that lead to a panic attack from Spanish to English. This task will require the use of dictionaries and is meant to be completed in pairs/groups. An extension has been provided for more able students in which they have to write a paragraph including all of the physiological statements translated. Sentence starters have also been provided to that end.
3. Consequences of stress: matching-up exercise.
4. Dealing with stress: Revision of structures to give advice. Students to combine these with a set of five strategies to tackle stress orally. This could be followed by students writing a short paragraph providing hints on how to alleviate stress.
5. Translation that brings together, the causes, symptoms and ways to fight stress together.
6. Reading tasks:
6.1: "Daños ocasionados por el estrés". Short paragraph followed by questions in English.
6.2: "Mexicanos estresados". Short paragraph. Students to find four words in the text and to translate a further four into English.