Teenagers today live in a very competitive world. It is more important than ever to succeed at school if they hope to have a chance in the job market afterwards. It’s no wonder that many young people (8) about letting down their parents, their peers and themselves. To try to please everyone, they take on too many tasks until it becomes harder and harder to balance their homework assignments, parties, sports activities and relationships. The result is that young people suffer stress. There are different ways of dealing with stress. Everyone knows that caffeine, in the form of coffee or soft drinks, keeps you awake and alert. But caffeine is a drug which can become (9) . In the end, like other drugs, caffeine only leads to more stress. There are better ways to deal with stress. Physical exercise is a good stress reliever (10) it increases certain chemicals in the brain which calm you down. It is also advisable that you should get enough sleep at night and spend more time hanging out with your mends or taking pan in outdoor activities.

Unlike life in the countryside, which is often considered to be simple and traditional, life in the city is modem and complicated. People from different regions move to cities in the hope of having a better life for themselves and their children. With plenty of job opportunities available in the city, the inhabitants work as secretaries, businessmen, teachers, government officials, factory workers, street vendors or construction workers and so on.

The high cost of living requires city dwellers, especially those with low income, to work harder or to take part-time jobs. For many people, daily life typically involves getting up in the early morning to do exercise in public parks, preparing for a hard day of working and studying, then travelling along crowded boulevards or narrow streets filled with motor scooters and returning home late at night. They usually live in large houses, high-rise apartment blocks or even in small rental rooms equipped with modem facilities, like the Internet, telephone, television, and so on. Industrialization and modernization, as well as global integration, have big impacts on lifestyle in cities. The most noticeable impact is the Western style of clothes. The “Ao dai” - Vietnamese traditional clothes - is no longer regularly worn in Vietnamese women’s daily life. Instead, jeans, T-shirts and fashionable clothes are widely preferred.