ТЕМА: Some people think that stress can ruin one’s life.

What is your opinion? Do you agree with this statement?
Write 200 – 250 words.
Use the following plan:
− make an introduction (state the problem)
− express your personal opinion and give 2–3 reasons for your opinion
− express an opposing opinion and give 1–2 reasons for this opposing opinion
− explain why you don’t agree with the opposing opinion
− make a conclusion restating your position

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There is so much pressure placed upon us nowadays! We experience it at times. And when we are overloaded we call it stress. People really think that stress can ruin our life.

Some time ago I had the same ideas. Why some time ago? Because now I understand that stress is inevitable, but not fatal. It burst into my life, into my family, into my students’ lives, into my country. I’ve never thought that after having been bombed all night I'd be able to go to my school in the morning. Is it possible to get used to those terrible midnight shelling, broken windows, children’s tears? Our children know the difference between ‘a multiple launch rocket system’ and ‘a portable anti-aircraft missile system’. Our children get used to have lessons in a bombshelter.

At last you feel like things are out of your control, when you even don’t know in what country you live. You can’t understand why you are called ‘terrorists’. Maybe it is because you didn’t leave your Gorlovka and are still teaching your pupils. And you feel that everything seems to have become too much.

Although it's not possible to completely eliminate all stress, you’ve managed to lower its levels. And you are still living, teaching, learning, smiling, loving.

You don't let stress undermine you. You’ve managed to control your responses to circumstances, even when the circumstances themselves are beyond your control. You put positive psychology into action. And you win!