VIP Class Notess (Lily) [R/S]

Pronunciation

frightened= frI tened

phobia= fou bias

describe= des gribe **sc is sg sound** (script, scroll, scone, screen)

experience= ex Berience  ** sp is sb sound** (spring, special, sprout, spill)

short vowel: a, e, I, o,u. ( bad, bed, bid, bod, bud) (hat, net, did, nit, nod)

long vowel: a,e,i,o,u (mad made, bed Pete, kit kite, not note mode, puck puke dude huge)

Vocabulary

1.frightened= super scared

ex: People can be frightened of many things.

2. harmless= no harm, not dangerous

ex: Your phone, nuts, rice, babies, turtles, rabbits are harmless.

3. phobias= irrational fear

ex: acrophobia= fear of height

claustrophobia= fear of being in a small space

trypophobia= fear of holes

4. irrational= no reason, ä¸ç†æ™º

Young girls often make irrational decisions.

Reading

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.

Speaking exercise

irrational behaviours

I was 14 and one day, my teacher asked us to bring one tool to clean the playground, because the grass on the playground growed very tall. My teacher asked to bring a tool next day. Next day I took my father’s shovel and I put the shovel on my shoulder and walked to my school. Suddenly I saw a field which had rapes, but the rapes are small, very tender. So I put the shovel on the ground, and I run, I took out all the rapes. After that, I looked around, I didn’t find anyone and I run away.

I grew up in very small village, my parents are farmers even though are very old. After farmers get the crops. When I was a child, people cooked the wheat to have fire, two chunks of wheat. One man was talking with my parents on my home, and he left a box of match in my home’s yard. I took the match and I hide into the chunk and lit it. I tried to put it out but I was very very little, I was scared so I run back to my home, and put the match on the table. When adults found the fire, they couldn’t put it out.

Revised

I was 14 and one day, my teacher asked us to bring a tool to clean up the playground, because the grass on the playground grew very tall. My teacher asked us to bring a tool for the next day. Next day I took my father’s shovel, I put the shovel on my shoulder and walked to my school. Suddenly I saw a field which had rapes, but the rapes were small, very tender. So I put the shovel on the ground, and as I ran, I took out all the rapes. After that, I looked around, I didn’t find anyone and I ran away.

I grew up in a very small village, my parents are farmers even though they are very old. After farmers harvest the crops, they are left with the wheats. When I was a child, people cooked the wheat to produce fire, there were two chunks of wheat in my neighbor’s house. One man was talking with my parents at my house, and he left a matchbox in my backyard. I took the match and I hid into my neighbor’s  chunk of wheat and lit it up. I tried to put the fire out but I was very very little, I was scared so I ran back to my home, and put the match back on the table. When adults found out about the fire, they couldn’t put it out.