Phobias!

Hello! Here goes some material on the topic we discussed last class: PHOBIAS!

For next class, remember to choose one STRANGE PHOBIA, and prepare the answer to the following questions:

1) What's the name of the phobia?
2) What is the phobia about? (A fear of. what?)
3) Why do you consider it a strange phobia?
4) Do you know anybody who suffers from this phobia?
5) What advice would you give to a person who suffers from this phobia?

The following material can help you:

1. Power point presentation with images showing different phobias,

2. A video about strange phobias: http://mental.healthguru.com/video/the-worlds-weirdest-phobias?Neatorama


I hope you find this useful!

Optional speaking activity: Fotobabble!

If you want to practise speaking, you can do the following activity:

1. Go to this website http://www.fotobabble.com/
2. Click on FOTOBABBLE FOR FUN! GET STARTED!

3. Now you have 2 options:
a) Connect with Facebook
b) Sing up for Fotobabble à Here you’ll create an account. Complete the form and click on “Sign up"

4. Click on: Create a fotobabble and upload a photo.

5. Click on Record, and start speaking! Below you’ll find some questions you can use as a guide.
6. Give your fotobabble a title.
7. Click on save.
8. Send me the link to the fotobabble by email!

Question guide

1) Where did you go? When?

2) What was the weather like?

3) What activities did you do?

4) Did you have a good time? Why/why not?

Here is my fotobabble as an example:

I hope you like the activity!

See you on Saturday!!

Speaking and writing activity: Describing people

Assignment #2

Here is another optional activity for you to do at home. 

SPEAKING

Go to your Students' book, page 7 (or look at the photocopy I gave you last class!)
Work on activity 6 (Speaking and writing). Complete the chart with information about a friend/family member. Using your notes, get ready to tell me about your friend/family member! The idea is that you practise what you are going to say at home! On Saturday, I'm going to ask you about it. 


WRITING

Using the same notes as in activity 6, write a short description o f your friend/family member. Remember to separate into paragraphs according to the topic you're writing about:

PARAGRAPH 1: Introduce the person (name, age, job, nationality) + your relationship with him/her
PARAGRAPH 2: Physical descriotion (use the vocabulary we learnt on Saturday!!)
PARAGRAPH 3: Personality
PARAGRAPH 4: likes/dislikes 

You can include a picture, if you want.

IF YOU DECIDE TO DO ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES, LET ME KNOW ON SATURDAY!