39 и 40.1 Creative hobbies help to cope with stress (Сочинения ЕГЭ английский язык)

In the modern world, people have numerous duties and things they would like to do, but time is limited. So, we become anxious, when we are unable to do everything. Psychologists, exploring this problem, argue: “Can hobbies reduce the amount of stress human experiences or not?”.

In my opinion, diversions can develop qualities that will help us to defeat stress. Firstly, hobbies teach us to be deeply focused on the process of mastering our skills. Secondly, they make us more self-confident, therefore, we less become stressful about small distractions. Finally, while you are doing your favourite hobby, you can end up with a remarkable idea, how to reduce stress in your life.

However, there is another group of people, believing that hobbies

are useless in the fight against stress.

According to them, hobbies steal much time during the day, so we get even less time to accomplish our work and start feeling anxiety. Besides, we need tremendous efforts to achieve high results in our hobbies, but hard work is always linked to stress.

I respect another point of view, but I still consider that hobby is a great way to cope with stress. Hobbies provide us with reasonable portions of stress, therefore we get the opportunity to learn about the nature of stress and how to handle it in our life. Also, a good hobby is a source of positive emotions, helping us to overcome stressful situations.

To conclude, stress is a topic people should learn more about. And one of the best ways to deal with that phenomenon is to take up a hobby. It will teach you crucial all life-skills you need to cope with stress effectively.

Nizhny Novgorod

Russia

04/04/20

Dear Sandra,

Thanks for your recent letter. I was glad to hear some news from you.

As for my grandparents, they live separately from us in their flats. But I see them quite frequently because we like visiting each other to discuss some news or drink a cup of tea. There’s a curious fact, that some grandparents in our country prefer to stay with their children or grandchildren rather than live on their own. This is due to the lack of communication and attention seniors experience during their ages. So, they try to fix the issue by living with their children.

By the way, what about you? What emotions did you have after your performance? Do you consider it was a great experience? There were a lot of people at the festival?

I’m sorry, now I need to help my parents. Write soon!

Best wishes,

Andrew