English Conversation Questions

Fear

Questions

1. What is your biggest fear for yourself?
2. What is your biggest fear for the world?
3. How do you react to fear?
4. How often do you jump or start when something frightens you?
5. What were you afraid of as a child?
6. How would you help someone to get over their fear?
7. Do you ever have nightmares?
8. Do you think society lives in fear?

Videos

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What’s likeliest to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years? It’s probably not what you’d think.

Category:  Psychology
Keywords: Fear | End of the world
Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose?

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In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

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Category:  Psychology
Keywords: Fear | Imagination | Learning

Vocabulary:
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secluded
float
shore
anchor
lighthouse
greenhouse
handsaw
hammer
power tool
nail
board (noun)
ton
land sick
biomass
canoe
paddle
real estate
prosper
fulfilled

Expressions:
subsistence living
hon

Vocabulary:
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Expressions:
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Vocabulary:
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involuntary
swindler
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unwarranted
concern
unfounded
impostor
syndrome
faculty
pervasive
prevalent
disproportionately
underrepresented
downplay
abnormality
self-esteem
spiral
accolade
threshold
susceptible
voice (verb)
peer
dismiss
excel
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mentor
competence
banish
frank

Expressions:
nagging doubt
shake a feeling
put something to rest
surefire way

Vocabulary:
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principle
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clown
distill
underdog
aspect
familiar
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keyboard
organic
grounded
clarity
stuntman
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perfectionist
rhythm
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continuity
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unlike
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relentlessness
finale

Expressions:
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going above and beyond
get smacked in the face
sell a joke

Vocabulary:
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smoke (noun)
engine
unique
pilot
route
unemotional
terror
instant
reach out (to someone)
postpone
urgency
purpose
regret
humanity
ego
reflect
eliminate
frame (verb)
artistic
talent
bawl
miracle

Expressions:
bucket list
brace for impact
mend fences
make sense
connecting dots