Which expressions are essential to your understanding of the main idea of the text?

a) all parts of the body’s stress apparatus;

b) inability to deal with stress;

c)tensions of unresolved stress;

d) muscle contractions;

e) stress management techniques;

f) thyroid gland;

g) clearly link job satisfaction and depression to stress;

h) critical for feelings of well-being;

i) reduce feelings of pleasure and accomplishment.

Key phrases to talk about main ideas and issues:

The author confines himself to …;

He endows the reader with the ideas that…;

… to understand the real meaning of the text;

… to read between the lines;

The excerpt presents the view on…;

… to read for the gist;

The gist of the text can be worked out…;

The passage is crucial for comprehension of…;

By using the clues…;

The reader’s brain and imagination is provoked to get to work to help him find the main meaning…;

The information contained in the text helps to work out the meaning …;

…is concerned with moral issues;

The author puts a point across clearly…;

The main ideas are inferred…;

It makes sense to think that…;

When skimming the extract for general ideas,…;

The text contains the specific information we need …;

… to consider the way the writer develops his ideas;

This information is helpful to illustrate the point which…;

If you are to understand the subtleties of the gist, keep in mind …;

Enough details are included to emphasize the author’s views…;

The passage offers a wonderful example of the way in which the author renders…;

Arguments about …and their interrelation are embodied in a series of extracts…;

Ideas are reproduced with great precision testifying to …;

Due to the great attachment of…;

This effect is achieved in a very peculiar way by pointing out that…;

The adequate understanding of the content is heightened by…;

The gist is based on a broad generalization of the issues related to..;

It seems to be a battlefield of conflicting ideas…;

From the information there is a clearly perceptible approach…;

These ideas associated with … perfectly suggest for the reader that…;

It looks as if it were the exposure of\revelation of…;

The would-be solution to the problem is seen as the only way to true morality and…;

Based on perfect knowledge of all aspects of life, …;

The excerpt brings forth the main points of the issues…;

New values are brought home to us in…;

We are made sensitive to…;

The main interest of the extract lies in …;

It affords an example…;

… brings to light…;

The passage is also significant as it sets forth the conception of …;

… ideas illustrative of the gravest issues of the time;

… sums up two widely different viewpoints;

… throws light upon the most vital problems of …;

…the given information produces a definite effect of making the issues more vivid to the eye;

The author’s standpoint sounds to be more convincing;

The development of understanding is further on enhanced by…;

It makes the reader feel how …;

Guesses are supported by reference to…;

Within the first lines…;

The reader gets a vivid notion of…;

The effect of adequate understanding of problems is achieved by means of facts …;

… are to be traced in the author’s outlook;

Problems embedded in the text…;

…is concerned with moral issues;

It provides the opportunity for new insights into …;

We are encouraged to make certain judgements…;

What comes as the matter of the biggest concern is that…;

The issues put forward by the author cover the areas …;

Judging from … it would seem that …;

Problem-solving activities are supposed to organize the arguments for and against…;

This excerpt allows scope for personal involvement and the opportunity to express the personal response to …

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