F2F Class Notes (Lily) [S/R]

What is your biggest fear?

Vocabulary

1 logical: with reason

ex: Most men are more logical than women, women seem to be more emotional.

2. harmless= no harm, not dangerous, safe

ex: Turtles, babies, insects are harmless.

3. phobias= irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation

trypophobia= fear of holes

claustrophobia= fear of being in a small space

acrophobia= fear of height

4. irrational= no reason

ex: People make irrational decisions when they are young.

ex: When people get mad, sometimes they have irrational behaviors.

5. tease: to annoy someone using languages

ex: Little kids teased me and said I look like a monkey.

My cousin came here and we visited Shanghai together. We ate Shake Shake, it’s too expensive, I don’t think the taste is good. We went to play trampoline. She stayed in Shanghai for three days and went to Thailand with her boyfriend. Then I went hiking with strangers. We played LangRenSha on the mountain, and we met four Malaysian girls.

Revised

My cousin came here and we visited Shanghai together. We ate Shake Shake, it’s too expensive, I don’t think it tastes good. We went to play trampoline. She stayed in Shanghai for three days and went to Thailand with her boyfriend. Then I went hiking with strangers. We played LangRenSha on the mountain, and we met four Malaysian girls.

https://english-magazine.org/english-reading/learn-language-articles

We can be frightened for all kinds of reasons; some are logical, such as a fear of snakes which might bite you, but people can be frightened of all sorts of  things, many of them harmless: clowns, butterflies, clocks, moonlight. We call them phobias, and there are long lists of these phobias, most of them seemingly totally irrational.  However, not all fears can be classed as phobias, and we have lots of different words to describe fear, and even ways to describe the people who experience these feelings.

Thanks to the wonders of Facebook I have recently linked up with a friend I used to play with when I was about eight years old. The phrase ‘scaredy cat’ was often used as a playground jibe when I was very young. Bigger and older children might dare someone to do something  – such as climbing up on the bicycle shed and then jumping off into the coke pile – a really foolish thing to do as you would probably end up covered with coal dust and many scratches, and at worst you could break a leg.  So the sensible thing to do was to take no notice of such jibes, but not everyone felt able to stand up to the teasing.