Parents putting pressure on their children to get good exam results and comparing them to others can cause stress. Assignments and homework from teachers without considering time for sleep can also be stressful. Friends who are either very professional or weak, making group work difficult, contribute to feelings of stress. The effects of this stress include weak bodies, tiredness, and loss of immunity leading to disease. To reduce stress, students should manage their time better instead of leaving assignments until last minute and communicate with parents about their challenges. They should also work hard to improve their skills and keep up with professional peers.

1. Name: Ngu Xian Loong
ID: 0314348
Module: English 1,
ENGL0105
Session: May 2013

2. Title: 1. In some countries young people have little leisure time and are under a lot of pressure to work hard
in their studies. What do you think are the causes and effects of this condition? Plan your response, and
then write a cause and effect essay.
Stress
Cause:~
Parents
Assignments and homeworks
Friends – professional; weak
Effect:~
Weak body
Tired
Loss body immunity

3. What is stress, stress is a thing that causing people to feel pressure, tension. In
some high quality countries such as America, Japan, German and so on. People are
working and studying with pressure because the life there is too hard. Because people
in there are racing with other people in their life, thinking their strategy to become the
most successful person in their country, and thinking how to not being the last one in
their country. In the time now, there are lots of causes making people stress.
The first reason that makes people feel stress is the pressure that had been
given by parents. Parents always scold their son or daughter if their children unable to
get a good result in their exam. They always blame their children without asking any
reason. As an example, someone did get B+ in his exam, his parents scold him
because of not getting A without thinking their children’s feel. That is making people feel
stress and always feeling that they are unable to survive when their parents know their
exam result. Some people’s parents are very good in study, very good in their result
when they were in secondary school or university. So they also want their children also
with a good result or a result that is better than them. They never think about whether
their children could do it or not, because everyone is different. This can cause people
loss their confident in everything and always think that they are unable to do anything
success.
The second reason that makes people feel stress is the assignments and
homeworks. Teacher or lecturer always gives a lots of assignments, they never think
about whether students will feel tired or not. They just thinking to make students

4. improve in their subject, but they never think about students’ feeling. In the university,
there are a lots of assignments, if students don’t know how to adjust or arrange time or
they just do it in last minute, they will have to do overnight and can’t sleep. Sometimes,
students do not understand about the instruction of work, they made it wrong and have
to redo it again, it makes students feel stress and tired. But if they do not do the
assignments those had been given by lecturer or teacher, they will fail the subject. In
this kind of situation, it will cause the students can’t get enough sleep and destroy the
body immunity system, and it can cause students involve with some disease.
The third reason that makes people feel stress is the friends, in school, if we are
weaker than some professional students, parents will always compare us with some
professional students, and it does make us feel that we are useless and we are nothing
than failure compared to professional students, it also break our confident in doing
everything. But our parents would never compare us with less professional students.
But also, we will also loss confident when there are a lots of professional students in
same class, it makes us feel stress, feel that we are unable to compare with
professional students, feel that we will never win, the pressure. However, there are also
a lots of weak students, we hate to be in a group with weak students, because they
would never help anything in group work. Some of them could help, but they just do not
want to help us because of their attitude. Some of them just because of lazy, did not
listen to the instruction that teacher or lecturer had given. So they would never be able
to help in anything. That can cause people loss their confident to do anything if we team

5. with professional, in another hand, if we team with weak students, it can cause us stress
because of solo the group work because of nobody wanted to help.
In conclusion, we should adjust or arrange time and not doing everything in last
minute. If we start the work in first minute, we would be able to do it better and not do it
overnight. Besides, we should explain to our parents why we aren’t good enough and
give them a promise about that we will be better in the next exam. In addition, we
should hard working and make sure that we will be able to become one of the
professional student in our class.
Refrences: ~
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/stress_signs.htm
What stress cause, the definition of stress. How to solve the problem.