节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-01-25
难易度:High
关键字:crabby, facilitate, after the fact, starting point, cognitive
(Music).
Hello, friends.
Welcome back.
Thank you for joining us and taking time to practice your English with us today.
Well, we are talking about worrying again, and how to not get ourselves stuck in
a trap of worry, especially at work.
Now earlier this month, we talked about video games and how some people take
care of stress, let stress out of their lives by playing games.
We also talked about athletes.
They take stress out by working out.
There are many ways to get stress out of your life.
And we're talking about ways to help you with that as well as to not let the
stress come in in the first place.
So join us at the top of the second column.
Avoid the Worry Trap at Work.
Another option is to ask yourself:
"What can I do right now to get a desirable outcome?" This can lead to useful
planning and preparation.
Use a similar approach after the fact, asking yourself about ways you can learn
from the experience.
Now that you've increased your awareness of your worry triggers and some
approaches to breaking the pattern, it's time to put them into action.
Here's one method that may be useful as a starting point.
How do you take care of worry and stress in your life?
There are many options: You can deal with stress, or maybe you can even stop it
before it gets there.
All right, yeah.
But another option is to ask yourself: What can I do right now to get a
desirable outcome?
So it's good to pause.
When you're in a situation, and you feel worry start creeping in, stop.
Calm down.
Think about it.
Right. Think about what you can actually do to be helpful and get a desirable
reaction, something that you want.
What is desirable is what you want in life, something that is good, positive.
So you want a positive outcome.
Nobody wants a negative outcome.
No, obviously.
But sometimes when you're worrying, it can lead to negative outcomes.
But trying to think about what you can do to be helpful can lead to useful
planning and preparation.
This is a wonderful piece of advice.
If you feel like things are coming to a negative outcome, you can prepare ahead
of time.
You can get ready so that you can help alter or change so that it can be a good
outcome instead.
Right, yeah.
If you're worrying, then you're not going to be very good at planning.
But if you're thinking positively, that'll make you a better planner, and you'll
have better preparation.
OK, planning and preparation.
Usually we might think these words are the same.
But in fact, they are different.
Ryan, can you tell us what planning might be?
Yes. Well, if you're planning, that means you have an idea of what you're going
to do.
But what about preparation?
So you have an idea, you have a plan, preparation is what you do to make that
plan work.
Right.
So friends, if you have an idea, you can create a plan.
But if you really want the plan to work, you need to prepare yourself for that.
Right. Now we see: Use a similar approach after the fact, asking yourself about
ways you can learn from the experience.
So, so far we've talked about going into a possibly stressful and worried
situation.
Now we're talking about the situation being over, what can you do?
Right. And you want to use this approach.
That means use this way of doing something after the fact.
If you do something "after the fact," that means you do it after something has
already happened.
That's right.
Now a lot of times, "after the fact" this phrase, I kind of find it as a phrase
we use about something funny.
Yeah. Usually if you think about something you've done after the fact, maybe it
would cause you to laugh.
It could make you laugh; maybe you're a little embarrassed by something you did.
Or even in this case, it's a good thing.
You can think about it and plan for the future, maybe another situation, to make
it better.
Learn from the past.
OK. Well, now that you've increased your awareness of your worry triggers and
some approaches to breaking the pattern, it's time to put them into action.
And now it's time to visit Liz with Grammar on the Go.
Hello, friends.
I hope you're doing well today.
I'm here at a popular vacation resort where lots of people like to come and get
away from their usual daily stress.
Now our article gives some very helpful tips for people who have a lot of
stress.
According to the writer:
Now that you've increased your awareness of your worry triggers and some
approaches to breaking the pattern, it's time to put them into action.
That's our Grammar Tip sentence for today.
Notice the phrase at the beginning of the sentence, "Now that." It's a common
expression that native speakers use to mean since or because.
So another way to say today's sentence is:
Since you've increased your awareness of your worry triggers and some approaches
to breaking the pattern, it's time to put them into action.
We use "now that" when we want to inform our audience how a certain situation or
action will bring about another situation or action.
For example, let's say you're teaching a group of children how their hands need
to be clean if they want to eat.
After everyone has washed their hands, you can say:
Now that our hands are washed, we're ready to sit down and eat.
Or let's say you've been working with some co-workers and you want to encourage
them to quickly finish up their work before nightfall, you can say:
Now that it's starting to get dark, let's hurry up and finish our work so we can
go home.
Friends, be sure to check out today's Grammar Tip section for more example
sentences.
And that's it for today.
My name is Liz.
And you've been watching Grammar on the Go.
Thank you for watching.
Bye-bye.
Thank you, Liz.
Well, we are putting our English into practice learning more about helping our
stress and worry levels go down.
So now we're after the fact, we're out of the situation looking back.
Exactly.
You've been able to increase your awareness of what has been happening around
you, finding things that cause you to worry and trying to avoid those,
but also, Kaylah, finding things that help you to feel better and think
positively and trying to focus more on that.
That's right.
Using the past to help you in a situation for the future.
Ryan, this really is what learning is all about.
We learn from the past; we should be taking things and using them to make the
future a better place.
Exactly. And I think I should use this as I were too.
There are many times that I worry, and so it's important to think of the
positive things at work.
So put them into practice.
Well, what do we... how? How do we put these into practice?
Here's one method that may be useful as a starting point.
Right. And a "starting point" is referring to the very beginning of something.
This is the first thing you should do.
That's right.
The starting point of a race is where we all meet before we run off on to the
race.
Here is one method that we can use as a starting point.
But you're going to have to come back tomorrow to learn what that point is; and
it's worth it!
So we'll see you tomorrow.
But you need to head on over to see today's skit.
Oh, no! What if I'm in a meeting and I do spill my coffee?
Oh, what if I forget my speech?
Or what if I...
A-ha! I caught you.
You are worrying.
Well, oops! You're right. I was worrying.
And I didn't realize it.
Mmhm. Watch for cues.
Do you get crabby?
Yes.
Do you get stomach ache?
Yes!
That could mean you're falling into worry.
But how can I break this worry habit?
You need a set of tools to facilitate the process.
Tools? What kind of tools can break the worry habit?
Questions.
Ask yourself: What's happening with this right now?
What's happening now?
Yes. If the situation isn't posing a problem at the time, think about other
things.
But is that really possible?
Yes. But it takes discipline.
Oh, discipline.
Mmhm. Here's another option.
Ask yourself: What can I do right now to get a desirable outcome?
What can I do now?
You... mean to prepare?
Yes. Plan and prepare ahead of time.
After the fact, learn from the experience.
Oh. If I learn, I'll improve.
Exactly. And you'll have more confidence and less worry.
Wow, hooray! More confidence, less worry.
But what if I fail?
What if I do worry?
What if I...
Ah, ah, ah. No worrying.
Oh.
Hi, everyone. I'm Michelle.
(Chinese).
And we're running out of time.
I'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.
Thank you, Michelle.
You know, stress affects different people in different ways.
Sometimes people can work in a high-stress environment, and because of his or
her personality, not be affected by it too much.
On the other hand, a person working in an easygoing environment can get really
stressed out.
So it depends somewhat on personality.
If you're interested in knowing how well you manage stress, you can go online
and take a stress test.
I just did and found out that I have some things to work on.
So, everyone, relax.
Take a deep breath.
And then join us tomorrow for more about Avoiding the Worry Trap.
Bye-bye.
Breathe out.
Breathe in. Good.