General English:8
Unit Living better
Discussing workplace stress
Vocabulary
health concerns 健康问题
Workplace health
Talking about health at work
She suffers from anxiety.
He's suffering from exhaustion.
She's suffering from depression.
I have a lot of stress in my life.
Or you can talk about the issues using adjective forms.
He's so overworked.
She always seems so anxious.
I'm so tired-absolutely exhausted.
I think she's depressed.
I'm under pressure with this deadline.
Making a change
Making a change in your work life.
Use phrases like these to describe things that can help alleviate stress at work.
push back the deadline
request more resources
ask for some help
talk to someone about it
take some time off
take a vacation
reduce your work hours
redistribute the workload
adjust the project plan
Finding out what's been done
Here are some questions you can ask if you want to find out what's already been done about an existing problem.
What have you tried so far?
Have you spoken to anyone about it?
Did you ask for more resources?
Asking about what will be done
Here are questions you can ask if you are not sure what to do.
Any idea what to do?
What are you going to do about it?
