hey there i'm emma from um english
there are a lot of reasons why our
stress levels have been
on the rise lately our lives are
incredibly busy
full of information ambition problems
and challenges to overcome
for me for you for all of us it is
so important to recognize stress and to
try
and manage it it's also really important
to talk about it with others
and so that is exactly what this lesson
is going to focus on
13 common english expressions
to talk about stress so get your pens
out get ready to take some notes
i really want you to be thinking about
how these
expressions could apply to your life
i'll be sharing idioms verbs phrases to
help you explain
and express stress so let's get into it
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we all live pretty busy lives we work
study family responsibility
not enough money not enough time not
enough
sleep all of these things i'm certain
that you have felt
stressed at some point if not today
than yesterday or last week or maybe a
few months ago
and this is how we describe people when
they're
tired anxious or grumpy because they
just have
too much going on we can feel
stressed we can look stressed
we can be stressed and it's
stressed not stressed
but stressed
so i know that it's really odd to
pronounce e d as
a t sound but that's a really common
feature of english pronunciation
when the consonant before ed
is an unvoiced sound like
this is an unvoiced sound so ed
is then pronounced
stressed stressed
this is true for the adjective and also
for the past tense form
of the verb stress and i've got a whole
pronunciation lesson about
this actually about past tense regular
verbs
you can watch it up here if you're
interested to learn a bit more about it
but it's
also really common to hear stressed out
and stressed out means exactly the same
thing the phrases are really
interchangeable
stressed stressed out
i'm always stressed out at the end of
the month when our accounts are due
are you doing okay you look a bit
stressed
what's stressing you out what is it
that is stressing you out we use this
phrase in the past and the present to
talk about
what's causing stress what creates
stress
for me traffic always stresses me out
being in such a big crowd yesterday
stressed me out
you're stressing me out i don't want to
do it because i know it will
stress me out so did you notice how with
all of those examples i was using them
across
tenses it's a really useful expression
to remember
to try and put into use another synonym
to describe how you're feeling when
you're stressed
is to be or to feel
burnt out so when you're really tired
and you're stressed because you've been
working hard
for way too long you don't have any
energy left
to do anything else that's when you're
burnt out
by the end of final exams both the
teachers and the students are completely
burnt out
and you also hear the noun burnout used
for that
complete exhaustion you always want to
try and avoid burnout right by taking
time off and relaxing a little i feel
like i've just created this whole lesson
to offer advice to myself
try to avoid burnout don't get stressed
out
now when you're worried about lots of
things you know you're thinking about
them
all the time it's really distracting you
can't
focus and you're really mentally tired
that is when you have a lot on your mind
okay so you know if you forget something
really important or you find yourself
not listening or not paying attention to
someone who's talking to you then
this can be a really good way to excuse
yourself
don't take what he said personally he's
got so much on his mind at the moment
i'm sure he's just really stressed out
so a similar expression is to have
a lot or too much on your plate
so think about going to a buffet right
and you've got your plate you
load up so much stuff onto that plate
there's lots of delicious things that
you want to try
but you overdo it and everything starts
spilling off the sides of the plate
right
so if someone asks you to do something
extra
you know on top of everything else
you've got to do
that day you might even say
i'm sorry i can't do it i've just got
too much on my plate right now
are you sure you want to volunteer at
the local church
you've already got so much on your plate
so again when you feel stressed because
you've got too much to do
or too many responsibilities you're
under pressure
okay you can use this phrase on its own
without any further explanation
you can say i don't know what's wrong
with him i think he's under a lot of
pressure at work
you don't need to explain more detail
or you can be more specific and include
an
action you can say under pressure
to do something you know to explain what
is creating that stress and pressure
he's under pressure to get board
approval by wednesday
it's also really common to hear that
someone
put another person under pressure
my boss has put me under a lot of
pressure to present the results by
friday
i just don't think we can do it do you
feel under any pressure at the moment
is someone putting you under pressure
tell me about it down in the comments
below okay so this
is very similar to under pressure but
perhaps
a little less formal right if you're
under the pump
it usually means that you have a
specific
task that you need to do and there's a
limited amount of
time that you have to finish it in so
there's
urgency right it's not just that you
have
a lot of work to do but you also have a
limited amount of time to get it done i
won't be home by five tonight i'm under
the pump to get this report finished
today
this expression has some great imagery
what happens if you burn a candle at
both ends
very quickly there won't be any candle
left right
so if you're waking up early going to
bed late in order to get more work done
then you are probably burning the candle
at both ends and you're probably
feeling exhausted and very quickly
you'll completely run out of energy and
enthusiasm
to get the task done right so this
expression is
great for when you are doing a lot
you're still coping but right now
you know that you can't continue to work
at this rate for much longer
right you're burning the candle at both
ends
please try to take it easy over the
weekend i'm worried you're burning the
candle at both
ends and we need you to perform at
monday's meeting
oh this is definitely not a good
scenario
when you overload your schedule and
you're trying to finish
everything but you completely exhaust
yourself
you burn yourself out by working too
hard
that's when you're working yourself into
the ground
or you could say you're running yourself
into the ground it's the same thing
and interestingly this expression is
usually
reflexive so the subject and the object
are the same we say i ran
myself into the ground or he worked
himself
into the ground i know i got sick
because i worked myself into the ground
and that's when you're at breaking point
oh no you can tell that things are
getting worse by the second here right
this is bad when you've reached breaking
point
it's that moment when the build-up of
stress
is so big inside of you that you break
for me
this usually ends up in a whole lot of
tears and stressful
crying can you think of the last time
that you were at breaking point
hopefully it's not too recently or it
doesn't happen too often
but have you ever been at breaking point
let me know about it
to come apart at the seams
this is another really fun idiom to
imagine
so imagine a stuffed toy one that's been
loved for many years he's very worn out
and the seams
the stitching starts to come undone
and the stuffing starts to come out you
know that
he's not going to last for much longer
right eventually the whole thing
falls apart and that is the feeling
behind this phrase
everything is falling apart everything's
going wrong
our customer complaints are up 30 since
our manager resigned
everything is coming apart at the seams
so you can use this expression
in your home life personal relationships
and also at work as well
it's really versatile to snap
this is a really great verb it's a
reaction
to being stressed or under pressure
right
so stress sometimes causes us to lose
control
and we snap in an instant we're not our
normal selves
we're annoyed we're frustrated we're
angry
and if we snap at someone
we yell at them usually without warning
usually it's quite unfair
stop watching tv you've done nothing
else all day
that was me snapping at you because i'm
stressed out
i'm sorry i snapped at you i've just had
a really long day
and an even more aggressive response
would be
to bite someone's head off
sounds dangerous of course it's not a
literal expression
but it's a great way to say that
someone's really freaked out and lost
control because of stress
they're annoyed they're frustrated they
yelled at someone
who was probably innocent and not asking
for it
and it's like whoa okay
calm down my boss basically bit my head
off when i tried to ask for an extension
was a bit unreasonable so i hope that
this lesson wasn't
too stressful for you and that you did
learn
a few new and interesting expressions
that you're
able to practice and explore this week
now i know that i shouldn't be getting
you excited
about seeing someone stressed but try to
look out for this type of behavior this
week
you know if you see your boss or a
family member stressed out about
something
see if you can apply some of these
expressions you know
keep a notepad handy a journal just
write
them down if you're feeling stressed as
well
it's actually good stress relief to
write down and to vent and to let all
these things go
but try to use some of these expressions
as you do
and for your final challenge today i
want you to choose
three of the idioms or expressions that
i shared in today's lesson
and write a short paragraph using them
down in the comments below this video
i'm going to come down
check them out give you some feedback if
you need it very soon
thank you for joining me like i said i
hope i didn't stress you out
or you're not too stressed but it is
important to be able to talk about how
you're feeling right make sure you check
back
for new videos full of everyday useful
english expressions
just like these ones i will see you in
the next one
bye for now