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English Buddies
November, Week 9
Monday 20:30 - 21:30 (with Nataly)
PART 1.

1. What is the difference between a fear, a

phobia and anxiety?
2. What things are people commonly afraid
of? Why?
3. What physical symptoms accompany
fear?
PHOBIAS AND FEARS
blood runs cold
to wake up in a cold sweat
petrify
spine-tingling
to be scared out of wits
to be shaking like a leaf
to get/have cold feet
push through the fear
to give/have heebie-jeebies
PART 2.
Match the name of the phobia and the picture (together jamboard)

https://jamboard.google.com/d/1O1g63DeI3O9HjRq
1z_syalFg1_Vf4QObFylq29iadzw/edit?usp=sharing
PART 2. answers

1. acrophobia fear of heights

2. agoraphobia fear of open places
3. achluophobia fear of darkness
4. hemophobia fear of blood
5. ailurophobia fear of cats
6. arachnophobia fear of spiders and others arachnids(scorpions)
7. aerophobia fear of aircraft or flying
PART 3

1. Do you have any phobias?

2. How can people confront and overcome a
phobia?
3. Are all phobias irrational?
4. How do phobias develop?
PART 4

1. What is the best way to get over a fear?

2. Do you think hypnotherapy can cure phobias?
3. How do you react when you see something
frightening?
PART 5

1. Why do people watch movies that make them feel

afraid?
2. Do you enjoy watching scary movies?
3. How you ever seen any reality TV show where people
face their fears for money?
4. Would you ever face one of your fears for money?
PART 6

How difficult might it be to experiencing

watching a horror cope with fear in these turbulence
film situations?

speaking in being stuck in a lift having a tooth

public pulled out

Now you have about a minute to decide which situation might be the easiest to
handle. Why?
⭐ Thursday 11:00 - 12:00 (with Lily)
schadenfreude
Saturday 20:30 - 21:30 (with Lily)
 Warm-up

1) Do you happen to know people who are unable to apologise?

2) Do you get offended if a person is unwilling to apologise to you?

3) Is it easy for you to apologise?

 vocab time!

to skip
one’s wrongdoing
to hold a grudge
an apology

to admit
of apologising

apologising
to offer
against smb
habitually incapable
Practice

1) If you think the coworker already __________________ you for an earlier

incident, you may skip apologizing since you feel it really won’t help your
relationship with them.

2) For these people, ________________ and offering an apology is too

psychologically threatening.

3) ___________ implies that they’ve harmed another person in some way, which
can elicit feelings of shame.

4) The mistake we often make when faced with someone who’s

________________ is to become irate (for good reason, of course) and try to
win our argument with them.
Keys

1) If you think the coworker already holds grudges against you for an earlier
incident, you may skip apologizing since you feel it really won’t help your
relationship with them.

2) For these people, admitting wrongdoing and offering an apology is too

psychologically threatening.

3) Offering an apology implies that they’ve harmed another person in some

way, which can elicit feelings of shame.

4) The mistake we often make when faced with someone who’s habitually
incapable of apologising is to become irate (for good reason, of course) and
try to win our argument with them.
Practice
1) When was the last time you skipped apologising? What was your
motivation?

2) If you hold a grudge against smb, will you let them know about it?

3) It is possible to build close relationships with people who are habitually

incapable of apologising?

4) If a stranger insists on your admitting your wrongdoing, will you offer an

apology right away?
emotional discomfort low self-esteem

Why might it be difficult to

apologise?

pushy environment ?
Thank You!