1. The Use of theNewspaper ArticleAn article in the column of HealthyLiving ---Friendship helps to reduce childhoodstress By Joshua Chi 16th January, 2012

2. The Reason for Choosing theArticleAs you know, Hong Kong is a high stressful society inwhich not only adults have much stress from work anddaily life but also pupils and children in the schoolssuffer from a lot of stress from school work and life.How to keep them mentally healthy has become anurgent and crucial issue in this society. It was recentlyreported that some pupils committed suicides because ofstudy stress from family and school. Therefore, teachersare also expected to help students to reduce their stressduring teaching by providing them with some practicalstrategies of reducing stress. This is the reason why Ichose this article for students to read. 3. Activities for Post-reading Activity 1: Group Discussion Students form several groups of 3-4 people and discuss thefollowing questions: 1. What is friendship? 2. How could you help your friends if they were in trouble? 2. What do you do when you get stressed due to peerexclusion, victimization or being bullied? 3. How would you help your good friends to reduce stress ifthey got stressed due to peer exclusion, victimization orbeing bullied in the schools? 4. Activity 2: Writing Search for some information about the reasons of causing stress and strategies of reducing stress via the internet and write them down into your notebooks, then bring them back to class to share them with your classmates the next day. 5. Thanks for your Attentions!Goodbye and Good luck!!