Students explore fear, sleep, aging, and deception. They interpret scientific ideas and figurative language, compare experiences, and support opinions about behavior and the brain.
Practice: Vocabulary in context, idioms, reading comprehension, role-play, and reasoned discussion.
Vocabulary: instinctive, adrenaline, conditioning, exposure therapy, genetics, amygdala.
Language practice: Describe emotions and physical reactions, offer reassurance, and explain hypothetical choices with reasons.
Idioms & expressions: break out in a cold sweat, a gut feeling, scared stiff, on edge, face your fears, jump out of your skin.
Reading & speaking: Read about fear’s protective role, interpret expressions in context, role-play everyday situations, compare animal defenses, and discuss different responses to fear.