The Business of Stress

Short overview of the lesson:

• Discuss modern stress, health trends and social media advice.
• Read an article about cortisol, wellness panic and supplement marketing.
• Complete gist and detail reading tasks.
• Discuss who benefits when people believe online health claims.
• Create a fake wellness product in “The Wellness Anxiety Machine” task.
• Learn vocabulary for talking about wellness hype, stress and evidence.
• Practise the vocabulary through matching, sentence rewriting and speaking tasks.
• Take part in “The Wellness Hot Seat” role-play about doctors, influencers and supplement brands.
• Play a Genially sorting game on Cortisol Island.
• Complete optional homework with reading, vocabulary and a no-supplement stress plan.