5. Stress and anger

1. Read and transcribe the following words.

Magazine, important, avoid, calm, tense, irritated, annoyed, furious, personality, opposite, frustrated, angry.

2. Give the Russian equivalents to the words.

To avoid stress, to be relaxed, full of traffic, to get annoyed, irritated, to be under stress, rarely, moody, bad tempered, to have fun.

3. Give the English equivalents to the words and word combinations.

Усиленно работать, стрессовые ситуации, транспорт, раздраженный, разозлиться, тип личности, вспыльчивый, лучше для здоровья.

4. Decide whether these characteristics belong to a Type A or a Type B according to the information in the passage.

a) is moody h) overworks

b) seldom relaxes i) lives longer

c) is not annoyed by a baby crying j) doesn’t get tense

d) stays calm k) worries a lot

e) gets frustrated in traffic l) doesn’t like waiting

f) enjoys life and work m) is relaxed

g) is usually in a good mood n) is often bad-tempered

5. What would you feel in these situations?

- You have just missed a bus or a train.

- You cannot find something, but you know it’s somewhere in the house.

- You can not sleep because you neighbour is playing very loud music.

- Your friend arrives forty minutes late for dinner.

- You have to work or study on a beautiful sunny day.

- You have to wait in a traffic jam.

- You have nothing at all to do.

6. Find in the text the word that corresponds to the definition.

a) easily made angry, unpleasant

b) question to be solved or decided

c) keep away from, escape

d) tightly stretched or strained

e) having moods that often change

f) not often

g) not excited, untroubled, quiet

6. Hypnosis

1. Read and transcribe the following words.

Hypnosis, characterize, associate, increase, perception, to breathe, breath, adult, approximately, entertainment, comfortable, suggestion, exaggerate, anxiety, phobia.

2. Give the Russian equivalents to the words.

Suggestibility, breathing, remain, entertainment, exaggerate, anxiety, treatment, researcher, procedure, anxiety.

3. Give the English equivalents to the words and word combinations.

Греческое слово, состояние сознания, повышенная внушаемость, физиологические изменения, события, места для развлечения, лечить тревожность, преувеличивать, сочетать с другим лечением, уменьшать боль, медицинские процедуры, приблизительно.

4. Finish the phrase.

state of ……………. physiological …………..

to associate with ………….. hypnotic ……………….

to reduce ……………. to remain ……………..

5. Give derivatives of the following words.

Insomnia, perceive, suggest, smoke, hypnosis, approximate, concentrate, entertain, anxious, depress, exaggerate, comfort, treat, medicine.

6. Find in the text the word that corresponds to the definition.

a) state like deep sleep in which one’s acts are controlled by another person

b) very near

c) make smth seem larger, better, worse than it really is

d) emotional condition in which there is fear and uncertainty about the future

e) inability to sleep

f) join together

g) person or animal grown to full size and strength

h) unhealthy, strong fear or dislike

i) make less, smaller in degree, size, number, price

7. Fill in the gaps in the sentences

Hypnosis comes from the …………. word “Hypnos”.

Hypnotic behaviour in entertainment places is ………………….

With the help of hypnosis psychiatrists …………… phobias and depression.

Experimental hypnosis is used by ………………

Hypnosis is always combined with other ……………….

Hypnosis may help smokers to ……… and insomniacs to …………

The hypnotist tells the subject to ……………. on one specific thing.