Worksheet l

Problem cards

Advice cards

Financial hardship

• be economical

• spare no money on trifles

• find a part-time job

Emotional instability

• maintain your composure even if you’re in a rage

• avoid conflicts or smooth them out

• don’t take to heart someone else’s problems

Misunderstandings with parents

• speak with them and ask for advice more often

• imagine yourself in their shoes

• smooth over your worldview contradictions

Lack of time

• use your time efficiently

• plan your day

• get rid of unnecessary work

Poor communication with friends

• spend more time together outdoors

• find a common hobby

• develop the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into your friends’ feelings

Stress at studies

• allocate your time for studies evenly for each day of the week

• ask your teacher for help, consult a psychologist

• mark out the most significant subjects, pay more attention to them

Physical weakness

• do physical exercise

• take care of your health

• combine your work and leisure time harmoniously

Inability to find work

• write a CV and place it on the websites of the companies you’re interested in

• prepare for the interview properly

• acquire some additional skills you may need at your future work (foreign languages, driving, deep IT knowledge)

Bad memory

• find a suitable memory training programme

• start keeping an organizer

• use associations to remember the necessary information

After-splitting-up stress

• distract your mind from the sorrows

• see your nearest and dearest more often

• spend more time in the open air

He ran very fast

someone should notice him.

The government must take immediate action

environmental problems should grow worse.

We must take care

evil thoughts should enter our souls.

They kept on watching all night

robbers should come.

I quietly tiptoed to the door

I should wake up my daughter.

Be careful with the hammer

you should hurt your finger.

He fled from the country

he should be captured and imprisoned.

They were afraid to complain about the noise

they should annoy their neighbours.

She reduced the volume of the television

her father should hear it.

I must assure you that it is not

you should think the film was too violent.

He hid in the woods

the police should find him.

Your neighbours play loud music late at night and you can’t fall asleep.

Your younger child is always biting his/her nails.

You groupmate has an annoying cough.

You’ve quarreled with your best friend. You want to make peace with him/her.

You’ve been accidentally injured. Now your leg is in plaster.

Last night you didn’t sleep a wink. Today you are having an interview.

Your mother is always interrupting you when you want to tell her something.

Your neighbours dog keeps digging out deep holes in your garden.

Your teacher gets very irritable when you’re late. It upsets you.

You can speak only one foreign language. You want this to be different.

You can’t play a musical instrument. You have always dreamed of becoming a musician.

You scraped the side of your parents’ car. You’ll definitely be told off.

You’ve seen an advertisement about a holiday in Ireland. You don’t have enough money.

You’re quite an unhealthy person. You want it to be different.

You witnessed a flesh-creeping accident. Now you often have nightmares.