Psychology essay: should schools teach students to manage stress?
A model opinion essay on teaching stress management at school; students analyze its argument and linkers, then write about psychology lessons.
B2Teens50 minEssay
About this lesson
A B2 writing lesson (essay). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- B2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Essay
- Students
- Teens
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Mind & psychology
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Matching, Multiple choice, Gap-fill
- Key words
- under pressure, anxious, cope with, underperform, stigma, overloaded, counsellor, life skill
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Write a clearly organized opinion essay with arguments, examples and a counter-argument
- Use a range of linking words for adding, contrasting and concluding
- Discuss how stress and emotions affect learning