≤104 Unit 10 Vocabulary 2
B Listen to some students using extreme adjectives to answer questions. 1
Examiner: So, what sort of thing makes you really angry?
Student: I get absolutely furious when people are cruel to animals. People think animals are less important than people.
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Examiner: Parachute jumping sounds very exciting. How many jumps have you made?
Student: I’ve made five now. I made my first jump last year. I was absolutely terrified before I jumped, but then when I was in the air, it was absolutely fantastic.
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Examiner: And so how did you feel when you got your exam results?
Student: Well, I was in Italy with some friends. My mother phoned to tell me I had passed them all. When I heard the news, I was absolutely delighted.
≤105 Unit 10 Vocabulary 2
C Listen again and complete these sentences. [Play Track 104 again]
≤106 Unit 10 Listening 1
B Listen to the introduction to a radio programme about phobias. Answer the questions in Exercise A. Voice: Good afternoon. On today’s programme, we’re going to hear about phobias, and learn what some of the most common phobias are. Now, a phobia is really a fear or an anxiety, but it’s a very strong fear or anxiety. In fact, phobias are often called anxiety disorders – a disorder is something that is wrong. People don’t understand why they have a phobia – they can’t explain why they are so afraid of what it is they have a fear of. It is difficult to know exactly how many people are affected, but some doctors think around fifteen per cent of us have a phobia of one kind or another. Some phobias can make it very difficult for people to live a normal life – a fear of water or of open spaces, for example. Nobody knows exactly why people have phobias, but it is probably a mix of brain chemistry – something that is just there inside us – and past experience – fears caused by what has happened to us some time earlier in our life. Today, I have in the studio Doctor Alan Carling. He is an expert on phobias, and he is going to tell us about the five most common phobias. Later, he will talk about how people can overcome a phobia, or at least learn to live with one.
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≤107 Unit 10 Listening 1
D Listen to the rest of the programme. In what order does the speaker mention the phobias in Exercise C? Female voice: Doctor Carling, welcome to World Wise. Dr Carling: Good afternoon. Now, Anne has described what a phobia is, so I won’t go back over that. I’ll go straight on to talk about the most common phobias, and how some phobias have similar qualities and cause similar difficulties to the people who suffer from them. The most common phobia is arachnophobia. Now,
that might not be surprising – most people don’t like spiders – but a phobia about spiders is more than just a fear. People who suffer from arachnophobia may panic if they see a spider – however big or small it is. They don’t want to go to places where there could be spiders, so they will feel uncomfortable if they go down to the cellar, up to the attic or find themselves in any room that hasn’t been cleaned. They may not want to go out into their garden. Female voice: Mm, I don’t like spiders, but I don’t think my fear is quite that bad.
Dr Carling: No, probably not. The second most common phobia is social phobia. Now, this is complex, and the person who suffers will be afraid of a range of situations. The real fear is of being with other people, especially large groups of people. People who have social phobia have very little confidence, and feel that other people are judging what they do and say all the time. They feel that what they say is stupid and that people are laughing at them. A person with social phobia could not speak in front of a group of other people, for example. Some sufferers do not like eating with other people – even members of their family. The phobia can make it very difficult for those who have it to live a normal life. Female voice: That’s very interesting. I have friends who are uncomfortable in large groups. They don’t like parties, and so on.
Dr Carling: Yes, it’s a common fear, but not necessarily a phobia. Now, another phobia that will probably not surprise people is aerophobia – the fear of flying. A lot of people don’t really like flying, but a small number of people simply cannot fly. They know it is safer than driving a car, but they panic as soon as they are near a plane. It is usually a result of seeing a plane crash on TV or reading about one in the news. Aerophobia is unusual because it seems that the person who suffers from it can do something about it. It seems that if the person makes one successful flight, they may not be frightened again in the future, and will fly quite happily. Female voice: That’s amazing. I really didn’t know that. Dr Carling: Now, the fourth phobia is agoraphobia. This is similar in some ways to social phobia, and certainly means that the person who suffers doesn’t like to be around a lot of other people. Agoraphobia is a fear of
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