1- a situation when you waited for a bus or a train 2- a challenging profession you know about

Describe a stressful day at school/ university/ work.
 
You should say:
x
how the day started 
x
how things went wrong 
x
what you did to reduce the stress 
and explain why it was a stressful day. 

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[You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes. You have one 
minute to think about what you're going to say. You can make some notes to 
help you if you wish.]
Model Answer 1:
Working as a school teacher is really troublesome if you are to take the class of 
the small kids. I am a Mathematics teacher of a local school here in Chiang Mai 
in Thailand. Being a teacher, I have to undergo several other responsibilities as 
well. Yesterday was a really hefty day for me. 
Usually, my day begins with taking the class in the school and since I am not 
that much experienced, I have to take the class of the elementary level. But 
the school principals asked me to meet him before entering to the class. When 
I met him, he ordered me to play the role of an invigilator in the exam of the 
sixth-grade students. I had to abide the order and accordingly went to be the 
invigilator for the sixth-grade kids. But the experience I gained was awful. 
I have joined at the school around five months ago after I completed my 
graduation. The authority took some tests and formal interviews and then 
allowed me to take classes. They, in fact, did not inform me that I have to be 
invigilator for the exams and thus I had no preparation at all about the issue. 
Besides, it was highly difficult for me to control all the examinees alone. 
Moreover, some of the kids were performing some illegal acts – they brought 
their books and used them to write down the answers. Some of them were 
talking to each other to know the answers and they seemingly ignored the 
female invigilator present at the exam hall. 
When I had to control all the students, alone, I was greatly stressed. I had to 
shout with the students so that they remain silent during the exam. Besides, I 
had to walk continuously for two hours until the exam hours were finished. So, 
everything made me feel stressed. When I get back into the teachers’ room, I 
washed my face, then took a break for 10 minutes. Sitting in my chair, I closed 
my eyes and tried for a short relaxation with breathing control. Then when I 
got up, I took some homemade snacks and went for taking the remaining class 
assigned to me. 
Generally, I take three or four classes in a day. But I had to work for extra two 
and a half hours on that day to complete all the activities. It took two hours to 
perform invigilation in the exam hall and half hour for preparing the exam 

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scripts and question papers. After the exam was done, then I had to take all 
the regular classes. This is not easy to take classes of underage children and 
the teacher is supposed to talk in the class more than performing any other 
things. Besides, I also have to remain aware of the activities of the kids since 
they are minor, they always get engaged in mischievous acts. Hence, I was 
stressed of executing all my responsibilities yesterday and the day turned into 
a stressful one.