Summary
Students learn about physiological responses to stress, including hormone release and effects on cardiovascular and immune systems. Through reading, listening, and grammar exercises on the passive voice, learners develop understanding and ability to discuss stress and its management. The lesson enhances health-related vocabulary and communication skills via speaking and writing tasks.
Activities
Students start with a warm-up, discussing their understanding of stress, common stressors, and how stress affects them personally, fostering initial engagement with the topic.
Learners engage with a reading passage about the physiological effects of stress, completing a gap-fill exercise and matching key vocabulary terms with their definitions to build comprehension.
Students watch an informative video about how stress affects the body, answering multiple-choice questions and completing a gap-fill summary to enhance listening skills and reinforce key concepts.
The lesson includes a grammar focus on the passive voice (present and past), with exercises where students rewrite sentences and complete others using the correct passive forms.
Finally, students participate in a speaking activity to discuss stress management strategies and complete a writing task, reflecting on a personal experience with stress using new vocabulary.
Vocabulary focus
The lesson focuses on vocabulary crucial for discussing health and stress. Key terms include hormones (like cortisol, epinephrine), chronic stress, physiological response, cardiovascular system, gut health, risk factors, and stressful situations. Students practice these words through reading, listening, and speaking activities, enhancing their ability to articulate the effects of stress on the body and well-being.
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on the passive voice (present and past). Students learn its formation (to be + past participle) and usage, particularly when the focus is on the action. They practice by rewriting active sentences into passive and completing sentences with the correct passive verb forms, applying this structure in the context of discussing stress and health.
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