Fears and phobias.

13 Março 2019, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

1) Warm-up: recycling vocabulary, flash cards: setting, withholding evidence, stab, line-up, one-way mirror, etc.

2) Pair work activity, Vocabulary and Speaking: 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 , insectophobia, musophobia, wiccaphobia, zoophobia, venustraphobia, andphasmophobia.

After 3-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, insects, noise, open spaces, spiders, water, witches, men, mice, microbes.

3) Sts then had to choose 1 phobia they could easily identify themselves with, and discuss it in group.

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

5) Checking homework: Reading Comprehension: Exercise 3, 4, 6 page 33-34.

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