Word for being afraid of fear

Have you ever wanted to use a phrase to express that you are scared or frightened? Maybe you even want to describe a scary situation using an idiom? Here is a list of different idioms you can use to do this. Have fun reading them and learning new, fun ways of expressing yourself.

• Afraid of one’s own shadow.

When someone is so scared they may jump when they think their own shadow is another person.

• That movie got me so scared that I was afraid of my own shadow! 

1. Heebie-jeebies

These unusual words are used to express a feeling of fear and being uncomfortable.

• That movie gave me the heebie-jeebies.

2. Make your blood run cold

Many people say that when they are scared, it makes them feel very cold all of a sudden.

• My blood ran cold it scared me so much. 

3. Jumped out of my sskinkin!

Have you ever gotten scared so quickly that it felt like your whole body jumped without you even moving?

• It was such a fright that I jumped out of my!

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4. Heart missed a beat

When you become afraid from one moment to the next, it may feel like your heart stopped for a moment.

• I got so scared that my heart missed a beat. 

5. Scared out of my wits

Having your wits means being in control of yourself. Being scared out of your wits is like saying you lost control of yourself because you were so afraid.

• I was scared out of my wits!

6. Scared the living daylights out of me!

This idiom is unique and refers to being so terrified that it may have felt like the lights were turned off suddenly and you were in the dark or dead even.

• When you jumped out, it scared the living daylights out of me! 

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7. Shook like a leaf

Just like a leaf sways in the wind, when frightened many of us shake uncontrollably.

• Before getting onto the ride, I shook like a leaf. 

8. Quaking in my boots

Quaking means to start shaking.

• It was such a scary situation that I was quaking in my boots!

9. Scared stiff

In some cases people become so afraid that they cannot move, they freeze.

• When the bank robbers began to shoot their guns, I was scared stiff and couldn’t run away. 

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Idioms for scary situations

10. Act of God

When many natural disasters occur, people will use this idiom to describe it as something very powerful.

• That earthquake was so intense; it was like an act of God!

11. Batten down the hatches

A hatch is a type of door, to batten down a hatch means to close and lock the door.

• When that storm comes tomorrow, we need to have battened down the hatches.

12. Close shave

To have a close shave means to have come very close to having been injured or killed.

• That was a close shave! The car missed us by only a few inches. 

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13. Dicey situation

A dicey situation means something is unpredictable, just like the dice in a game.

• He was in such a dicey situation at work; we didn’t know if he was going to survive.

14. Fraught with danger

When a dangerous situation happens, and a person is in the middle of it.

• Taking that road is fraught with danger, it is on the side of a cliff and landslides happen frequently. 

15. Play with fire

Everyone knows that playing with fire can burn you or cause damage to others. So to play with fire means to do something that could hurt you or another person.

• Don’t walk out onto that old bridge, you’re playing with fire because it looks like it could fall at any time.

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16. Risk life and limb

To risk life and limb means to do something that is dangerous, whether it is necessary or not.

• Firefighters risk life and limb every day to save others.

17. Skating on thin ice

When a person does something that is dangerous or very risky.

• She was skating on thin ice when she jumped from one building to the other.

18. Take cover

To take cover means to find shelter or protection from something dangerous.

• The people ran to take cover when they heard the sound of gunfire.  

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19. Take your life into your own hands

When a person does something on purpose that could kill him.

• He took his life into his own hands when he tried to swim across that raging river.

Many of these idioms can be used in situations that are not scary, but they must make sense to the listener. Now you know what to say the next time you watch a scary movie. Why not try to practice with your teacher, family, or friends new ways to use these idioms.

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Are you afraid right now?

Need some strength and courage?

Here are over 1000 of the best inspirational and motivational quotes and sayings about overcoming your fears.

Whether it is fear of the unknown, fear of change, or fear of failure, facing your fears is going to be the most important decision you will ever make in your life.

Life will slow down and it will nearly be impossible to move forward and become the best version of your self until you do so.

And the first place you must start is with your mind.

The most important thing you must understand is that fear is your friend.

It is a signpost or “reflection” that is telling you, “Hey…you have a belief that is out of alignment with your true self. You need to look at this!”

So don’t push it away, welcome it into your life and say, “Thank you for teaching me that I have a negative belief about something that I was not aware of.”

Once you own it, then you can change it.

Your most powerful ally is going to be your mind.

This is why we have aggregated over 1000 of the best quotes and sayings about fear that will help to inspire and motivate you to overcome them.

So bookmark this page and read these quotes any time you need to get pumped up!

QUOTES ABOUT FEAR

Our fears reveal what we care about the most.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

Never let your fear decide your fate.

F.E.A.R. has two meanings – Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Do what scares you until it doesn’t.

Never let your fear decide your future.

F.E.A.R. – False Evidence Appearing Real

You must face your fears and limiting beliefs head-on to develop your self-belief. – Richard Parkes Cordock

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.

Fear is temporary. Regret is forever.

When you fear your struggles, your struggles consume you. When you face your struggles, you overcome them.

The fears we don’t face become our limits. – Robin Sharma

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ― E.E. Cummings

Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Get over it.

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers

Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Be motivated by the fear of being average.

A ship is always safe at shore but that is not what it’s built for. – Albert Einstein

If you want more joy, serve. If you want more money, solve problems. If you want more freedom, face your fears.

Everything you’re running away from is in your head.

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. – Bruce Lee

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

One day, your heart will stop beating, and none of your fears will matter. What will matter is how you lived.

Your largest fear carries your greatest growth.

Fight your fears and you’ll be in a battle forever. Face your fears and you’ll be free forever. – Lucas Jonkman

The greatest “mistake” you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – E Hubbard

Once you become fearless life becomes limitless.

He who doesn’t fear death dies only once. – Giovanni Falcone

The beautiful thing about fear is, when you run to it, it runs away. – Robin Sharma

When your faith is stronger than your fears, you can make your dream happen. – Karen Salmansohn

Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive. – Mooji

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. – Bear Grylls

Don’t let your fear of what could happen make nothing happen.

Fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create. Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

Somebody should tell us…right at the start of our lives…that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. – Michael Landon

Fear is nothing more than an obstacle that stands in the way of progress. In overcoming our fears we can move forward stronger and wiser within ourselves.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

If you live in fear of the future because of what happened in your past, you’ll end up losing what you have in the present.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

Miracles start to happen when you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears. – Richard Wilkins

A strong person is not the one who doesn’t cry. A strong person is the one who cries and shed tears for a moment, then gets up and fights again.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear. – Anthony Robbins

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon

You gain strength and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

When you face difficult times, know the challenges are not sent to destroy you. They are sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable? – John Green

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. – Norman Vincent Peale

Go to your fears. Sit with them. Stare at them. Your fears are your friend. Their only job is to show you undeveloped parts of yourself that you need to cultivate to live a happy life. The more you do the things you’re most afraid of doing the more life opens up. Embrace your fears and your fears will embrace you. – Jackson Kiddard

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. – Jim Morrison

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. – August Wilson

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie

Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. – Michael Jordan

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. ― Joseph Campbell

Those that are brave enough to achieve success, will always choose success over fear. Familiarize yourself with success, and you will never let fear stop you again. – Nav-Vii

Don’t pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure difficult times. – Bruce Lee

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Plutarch

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. ― Aristotle

Reality of fear:
You’re not scared of the dark. You’re scared of what’s in it.
You’re not afraid of heights. You’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of the people around you. You’re just afraid of rejection.
You’re not afraid to love. You’re just afraid of not being loved back.
You’re not afraid to let go. You’re just afraid to accept the reality that he’s gone.

You’re not afraid to try again. You’re just afraid of getting hurt for the same reason.

Laughter is poison to fear. ― George R.R. Martin

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. – Jerry Gille

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. – Marcus Aurelius

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.

Fears are stories we tell ourselves.

It’s okay to be scared sometimes. Courage is the ability to face your fears not hide them.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. ― Sigmund Freud

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear. – Gandhi

There comes a time when you have to plant your feet, look your fear in the face, and say “You don’t get to control me anymore. – Mandy Hale

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. – Anna Freud

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ― Nelson Mandela

I breathe in my courage and exhale my fear.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. – Arthur Koestler

Fear is faith that it won’t work out.

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. ― Paulo Coelho

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation – it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. – Les Brown

May my heart be brave, my mind fierce and my spirit free.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot

Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ― Jim Morrison

Sometimes the only thing left to do is to face your fears with nothing but a smile.

Always do what you’re afraid to do. ― E. Lockhart

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you. – LL Cool J

Stay strong, make them wonder how you’re still smiling.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. ― Emma Donoghue

Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. – W. Clement Stone

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears away.

You never know how strong you are… until being strong is the only choice you have. ― Cayla Mills

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. ― Veronica Roth

Do what you fear most and you control fear. – Tom Hopkins

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ― Paulo Coelho

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going. – Chantal Sutherland

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie

Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness. – Susan Gale

Go ahead, tell me that I’m not good enough. Tell me I can’t do it. Because I will show you over and over again that I can.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ― Marianne Williamson

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TIPS ON FACING YOUR FEARS

1. Breathe

The first and most important thing you must do is stay calm and breathe.

The biggest mistake people make is that they allow the fear to take over to the point that they begin what is called shallow breathing.

This is where you take short breaths and this will increase your heart rate and causes panic attacks or anxiety.

So make sure to focus on your breathing.

2. Be Honest With Yourself

Many people try to run from and avoid their fears.

This causes a lot of problems because you cannot run from yourself.

Your fears have no place to go so they will come into your life and manifest in multiple ways until you face them.

So be honest with yourself and just say, “Ok, I am afraid of X and it’s ok. I am going to be okay.”

3. Write Them Down

Now that you are being honest with yourself, sit down for a few minutes and write down all of your fears.

For example, if you have just lost your job you could write down things like:

“I am afraid of not finding another job.”

“I am afraid of not making enough money.”

“I am afraid of being a failure in life.”

“I am afraid of becoming a homeless person.”

“I am afraid of what my friends or family are going to say or think about me.”

No matter how outlandish each fear must sound, just write them all down.

4. Face Your Fears

Now that you have written them all down, it’s time to face them.

Look at the piece of paper or Word/Google Doc and look at them.

Stare at them.

You are now facing your fears.

Then ask yourself these two questions:

A. Is this true?

B. What is the worst possible thing that can happen?

Many times our wild imagination runs amuck and makes things more than they actually are.

By facing your fears and asking yourself these questions, it will put them into perspective and your logical mind will start to realize how absurd most of these fears are.

Hopefully you start to laugh at yourself and realize that its nonsense.

5. Move Towards It

Now that you have faced your fears in your mind, its time to physicalize it.

You need to take action and move towards them so that you do not run from or avoid them.

This is what will make you stronger.

The truth is, our ego always fears annihilation.

This is all about “fear of death” at the very subconscious level.

Once your ego sees that everything is okay, then the fear will start ti dissipate one day at a time.

Little by little it will start to melt away because you will see that you are okay.

RESOURCES

• Wikipedia On Fear
• Psychology Today
• Conquering Fear
• The Biology Of Fear
• The Psychology Of Fear
• How To Conquer Your Fears
• The Science Of Facing Your Fears

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Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary. My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. You can find a transcript of this podcast on LearnEnglishVocabulary.co.uk. There’s a page for this podcast with the transcript, an activity and a task for you to do in the comments section.

Introduction

Today I want to talk about fear. Fear is unpleasant, but it’s also a little bit exciting. It’s a strange emotion, a strange feeling because it gives us a thrill in the right levels and it’s something we like. We watch scary films, like to ride on roller coasters, but if you have a phobia or experience something that scares you, it’s not pleasant at all. 

This podcast is supposed to be aimed at A2 learners and that’s difficult because I’ve used some complicated language already. 

Let’s pause and look at the adjective scary. We use this to describe something that makes us feel fear. You can watch a scary film or read a scary story. If you want to describe your feelings, you can say I was scared. Scared goes with the preposition of. What are you scared of? I’m not scared of you! I’m not scared of anything. Well, maybe. 

A thrill is a rush of excitement caused by fear or danger; it makes your heart beat faster and sometimes gives you a rush of adrenalin. If something is exciting and scary, it will give you a thrill.

As well as saying scared of, you can say afraid of. Britain is an island and people have moved here in waves. This means that they often brought new languages with them so we have loads of words in English that often mean pretty much the same thing. So we have scared which comes from Old Norse – I guess the Vikings brought it with them. And then the Normans invaded from France and brought French and the word afraid. Sometimes, there are still connections with the words and the way we feel about them that have their roots in their origins. I’m not sure about scared or afraid. However, looking at a collocations dictionary, I can see in English you’re more likely to say you are slightly afraid or a little afraid, rather afraid or a bit afraid than you are to say a little scared. You can say both, though.

In this podcast, I’m going to look at words for different types of fear, starting at the kind of small fears everyone has about little things that could go wrong all the way up to to the deepest darkest fears that haunt our dreams. I’m going to talk about five different things that people are afraid of and will do my best to describe the vocabulary of fear along the way. 

So, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid of anything on my list?

Fear number 1: Fear of the dark

This is something I don’t understand. My kids are afraid of the dark and sleep with a night light. This is an interesting fear because it’s not really the darkness that people fear. At least, I don’t think it is. It’s that there might be monsters hiding in the darkness. I have tried to explain that there are no monsters to my children, but that doesn’t stop them from getting panicky if I turn off their bedroom light and shut the door without turning on their night light first. 

Panicky describes someone who gets very worried and frightened quickly. The verb to panic means to become so scared or nervous that you don’t act reasonably or rationally. People do crazy things when they panic. Sometimes, whole crowds of people panic and they get so scared, they don’t care about anybody but themselves and people get crushed as everyone tries to run away. 

Fear number 2: Fear of animals

I have chosen to include all animal fears. My wife is terrified of dogs. My sister really doesn’t like spiders. I had a school friend who was petrified of moths and I think that most people are pretty scared of snakes. Now, my wife’s fear of dogs comes from being attacked by a dog when she was a child. Snakes and spiders are sometimes venomous and so I think it’s quite reasonable to be afraid of them. But moths? Why would anyone be afraid of a moth? And my sister’s fear of spiders. Well, that’s not really sensible as we don’t have dangerous spiders in the UK. If we were in Australia, it would be rational. But here in the UK, it counts as a phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. There are names for all kinds of phobias: arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. Trypanophobia is the fear of needles. Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces.

Thalassophobia is the fear of deep water. Claustrophobia is the fear of enclosed spaces. I think claustrophobia is the only named phobia that people talk about. The other common use of phobia is in the word homophobia which is the fear of gay people, but it’s really used to mean a dislike or prejudice. 

I said that my wife is terrified of dogs. Terrified just means very frightened. It’s an extreme adjective so you can’t say very terrified. You can say really terrified or absolutely terrified. My school friend was petrified of moths. He may still be petrified of moths. Petrified is even stronger than terrified. It literally means turned to stone – it’s not as commonly used as terrified or scared, but it’s really descriptive.

Fear number 3: Fear of failure

This is one of the worst fears because it stops people from achieving their potential, that is, it stops people taking risks so they never know how good they could be. This is not like the other fears. You don’t experience this fear in the same way you might be afraid of a spider. People are not frightened of failure, the fear of failure is a slow fear that is still uncomfortable, it makes you feel anxious and worried. You ask your self what if … what if I make a fool of myself? What if I’m not good enough? What if nobody believes me? What if nobody likes me?

I think that everybody knows this and has felt this fear at some time. It’s one of the hardest fears to conquer because you can’t just be brave for a few seconds, you have to be brave for a long time.

I spoke about the word frightening. A fright is a sudden experience of fear. It’s similar to surprise, but nasty. To frighten means to give someone a fright and person or an experience that gives you a fright is frightening. My old boss was really frightening. You did not want to cross her. If you experience something frightening, then you will feel frightened.

I also said that fear of failure makes you feel anxious. This is a bit like nervous or afraid, but it’s normally something like a background emotion. It’s a bit like stress. You might not even realise you are feeling it, but it will affect how you respond to everything around you. 

The last phrase I want to look at from this fear was to conquer your fear. To conquer used to be used to talk about how a king from one country would invade another and become the new ruler. We call the Norman king that invaded England in 1066 William the conqueror. To conquer a fear means to completely defeat the feelings of fear so you are in control of your life again.

Fear number 4: Fear of ghosts

Have you ever seen a ghost? When I was younger, I was fascinated by ghosts and really wanted to see one. I’m sad to say that I never found one and now, I find them very hard to believe in. However, when people think they see them, they get scared stiff. I don’t think that anything is scarier than ghosts for people who believe in them, well, and are scared of them. My niece is really scared of ghosts and a few years ago, I went with her and my family to an old building that is supposed to be haunted. I spent the whole time teasing her and pretending I could see something standing behind her. I didn’t realise quite how scared she was. She was scared out of her wits. 

To be scared stiff means to be paralysed by fear. The literal meaning is the same as petrified. To be so scared that you can’t move. We also say scared out of your wits or scared witless. In this phrase, we are saying that you are so scared, you can’t think properly. 

There is another phrase that uses the swear word shit. This is a vulgar word and so should not be used at work or in a situation when you need to be polite, but it’s quite common in informal situations so you should be aware of it. You can say I was scared shitless or that film scared the shit out of me. People also say I was shitting myself to mean I was really scared. As I say, it’s all vulgar language and some people will find it offensive so be careful with these expressions.

Fear number 5: Fear of nothingness 

To me, this is the darkest fear. The fear of nothingness. This is the fear that teenagers experience as they realise that the kind words their parents told them might not be true. The fear that there is nothing more. There is a special word for this kind of fear: dread. This is not exciting. This fear does not get your adrenalin pumping. Instead, it settles in the background, like anxiety, but much much colder. We do use dread for other things. You might dread going to a meeting with your ex-wife or husband. I think that if you were sentenced to prison, the feeling before you start your sentence would be dread. We use the phrase to fill someone with dread. The thought of my children getting sick fills me with dread. 

So there you have five fears and loads of vocabulary. I’m going to add some activities so you can practice using this language on LearnEnglishVocabulary.co.uk. Also, I’m going to leave you with three questions and I would love for you to answer them in the comments section on Learn English Vocabulary on the page for this podcast. The questions are:

1. Do you have any irrational fears? Are you scared of anything that you really shouldn’t be?
2. What would you be most afraid of; a ghost or an alien?
3. What fear have you conquered?

If you have enjoyed this podcast, please leave me a comment or a rating or a review. I love to hear from you and any comments or suggestions you have. So please visit LearnEnglishVocabulary.co.uk and say hello.

Thanks for listening.

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Adjectives – can you select the right words?

Activity 3

Fill in the gaps with the words from the podcast

Activity 4

Phobias quiz – this is just for fun

Task

Answer the questions in the comments

1. Do you have any irrational fears? Are you scared of anything that you really shouldn’t be?
2. What would you be most afraid of; a ghost or an alien?
3. What fear have you conquered?