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Learn English vocabulary – Fears (Halloween special)


00:00:00are you scared of the dark ghosts

00:00:02cemeteries today’s special scary

00:00:06Halloween themed lesson is all about

00:00:08fear your lesson starts now

00:00:40so what are you afraid of everyone’s

00:00:44afraid of something

00:00:45for example ghosts fear me I’m afraid of

00:00:58flying and we can express fear at

00:01:00different levels from not much to a

00:01:04little bit to a lot one way to start

00:01:08with the subject and a version of B then

00:01:11include your adverb these are optional

00:01:13and in order of strength the

00:01:17pronunciation ridiculously absolutely

00:01:20really vary and quite notice

00:01:24ridiculously is the strongest and quite

00:01:26is the least strong of these adverbs

00:01:29next you say a word indicating your

00:01:32level of fear again in the order of

00:01:35strength the pronunciation petrified and

00:01:38terrified they’re the strongest words

00:01:41then the frightened afraid scared and

00:01:46nervous we’ve scared you can add

00:01:49optional words for example I’m scared

00:01:52shitless

00:01:52this one isn’t formal so be careful when

00:01:55you use it and scared senseless I’m

00:01:58scared to death

00:02:00step but we can express it another way

00:02:08with these expressions you can use some

00:02:12conditional sentence for example I’d

00:02:14myself

00:02:16if blah blah blah carpet by is blah blah

00:02:19blah

00:02:20we can express it in this way using the

00:02:23situation as the subject use your fear

00:02:26mode again the order of strength

00:02:28petrifies terrifies frightens scares the

00:02:33next part is optional and in the order

00:02:35of formality from not forwards this

00:02:40to a safe more formal word for example

00:02:42you can say it scares the life out of me

00:02:46so glitch a preposition to use well that

00:02:49depends if you use a noun or a verb if

00:02:52you use it now the preposition is often

00:02:55and the now is always in plural and

00:02:59scared of clowns and scared of spiders

00:03:02and scared of needles I’m scared of

00:03:06heights I’m scared of small spaces

00:03:10remember uncountable nouns and we don’t

00:03:12put any word for example and scared of

00:03:16the dark

00:03:19and if you use a verb prepositions self

00:03:23with ing in the Jericho I’m scared of

00:03:28getting injections I’m scared of meeting

00:03:31new people

00:03:32another way is to use the preposition to

00:03:35when the verb would be in the infinitive

00:03:38form and for example I’m afraid to meals

00:03:44I’m afraid to fly so leave a comment

00:03:48tell us what you’re afraid of

00:03:49subscribe to us and we’ll see you in the

00:03:52next class happy

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