Phobias and Fears

24 Outubro 2018, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Warm-up: Group work activity: Each group had a piece of paper with different phobia types. Sts had to guess the objects of fear:

acousticophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, androphobia, Anglophobia, arachnophobia, aviophobia, bacillophobia, Bolshephobia, carcinophobia, chromophobia, claustrophobia, coulrophobia, cyclophobia, dentophobia, Francophobia, hydrophobia ,homophobia, insectophobia, musophobia, wiccaphobia, zoophobia, venustraphobia, andphasmophobia

 

After 5-minute guessing, another piece of paper was handed out with the list of related objects of fear, but in ABC order:

animals, beautiful women, bicycles, Bolsheviks, Britain, cancer, clowns, colours, confined spaces, dentists, flying, France, ghosts, heights, homosexuality, insects, noise, open spaces, spiders, water, witches, men, mice, microbes

 

Sts then had to choose 3 phobias they find difficult to identify themselves with such as homophobia, Anglophobia, etc. and 3 they could easily identify themselves with, and discuss it in group.

Pair work activity: Exercise 2 (animals and fear) B1.2 Workbook, page 29

Reading: “You Are Now Entering the Human Heart” by Janet Frame, page 30-32

Reading Comprehension: Exercise 3-4, page 33

Pair work activity: Exercise 5, Discussion: “Humiliating situations and teachers” page 33

Working with the text: Pair Wok Activity: Exercise 6

Homework: Read text “My extreme Animal Phobia”, page 27-28