Last week Tuesday was the first day

of the new school year and it was a stressful day.

Teachers were stressed because they didn't know

if they were totally ready to start teaching.

Students were stressed out because they didn't all know

where their classrooms were.

It was certainly a stressful day for a lot of people.

So I thought I should do an English lesson about stress.

If you don't know what stress is,

stress is a feeling you have.

It's kind of a combination of feeling anxious

and having anxiety and being nervous

and being worried about something new that's starting

or just things in life that you are going through.

So in this English lesson, I will talk to you

about how to express feelings of stress

and I'll also teach you some English phrases

that we use when we talk about stress.

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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson about stress.

I hope the lesson doesn't stress you out,

but I think it's a good idea for us

to talk a little bit about stress

and how to express it in English.

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just a little bit more English.

So in general, if you are feeling anxious

and you are feeling a lot of anxiety

and if you're worried and you're a little nervous,

you can express that in two ways

and it's very, very simple.

You can say, "I'm stressed."

Or you can say, "I'm stressed out."

They mean exactly the same thing.

I'm not sure why we have the second version,

but I actually think it's the more common of the two.