Phobias: understanding and responding

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 9

Subject

Английский язык

Term

4

Lesson

№ 93

Section

Science and technology. Unit 9)

Learning objectives

• 9.2.2.1understand most specific information in unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics
• 9.3.4.1respond with growing flexibility at both sentence and discourse level to unexpected comments on a range of general and curricular topics

Sample questions

1. 1
   What is a phobia?

   A common type of physical illness in children A strong dislike of certain kinds of food A temporary feeling of happiness and joy An extreme, irrational fear of something
2. 2
   A person who has acrophobia is afraid of…

   crowds heights spiders water
3. 3
   Which phobia means a fear of spiders?

   Agoraphobia Arachnophobia Hydrophobia Xenophobia