Vocabulary
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 388.
Case study
Linda White works only part-time. She has a family and very busy at home. So it is difficult for her to manage all business and family matters. She has thought a lot about her place and role in the law firm. Being a mother, a spouse and a professional is a difficult balancing act under any circumstances. Of course, it is a crisis including an important meeting, a sick baby and a spouse who is not helpful as possible. The results are anxiety and stress. Certainly, Linda has to manage the stress factors in her life.
How would you avoid such problems? How would you manage all such stress factors, if you were Linda?
a) give definitions to the words:
| lifestyle | stress-related illness |
| deadline | workload |
| pressure | stress counselor |
b) form adjectives /participles based on the nouns:
| stress | |
| flexibility | |
| ambition | |
| worry | |
| promotion | |
| illness | |
| strategy | |
| emotion | |
| fitness |
13. “Burn out or rust out?”
a) read the following:
“Burn out” is when someone is performing below an acceptable level through stress and pressure at work. “Rust out” is when someone is stressed through boredom and too little work: being underworked and undervalued can be more stressful than being overworked.
Have you ever experienced such things in your life? What do you think is the worst thing? Comment on your answer.
How do you usually cope with such situations?
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