Fears and phobias

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 9B – Present perfect for and since

2. • Lead in - Photos showing common phobias (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – discussing fear (10 mins)
• Reading – phobias – checking vocabulary (10 mins)
• Reading – phobias – headings matching (5 mins)
• Reading – phobias – matching comments (5 mins)
• Reading – phobias – vocabulary matching (5 mins)
• Speaking – friends with phobias (5 mins) 45
• Listening – phobias and help – details (5 mins)
• Listening – phobias and help – summary (5 mins)
• Fun facts about phobias quiz (10 mins) 65
• Grammar – present perfect – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – present perfect – presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – present perfect – exercises (10 mins)
• Present perfect melee guessing game – (15 mins)
• Grammar – present perfect – for / since (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – sentence stress – (5 mins)
• Present perfect – making questions and asking them (10 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

4. • How do you feel when you see the photos?
Why?
• Are you afraid of anything? How did you
phobia start?
• What activities do you avoid doing because
of a phobia?
• Can you think of any places you don’t enjoy
going to? Why?

9. Fear of driving
Fear of butterflies
Fear of doctors

10. Fear of heights
Fear of crowds

13. Fear of driving
Fear of butterflies
Fear of doctors
B – motorways, bridges , driven.
C – flying ,
little ones
A – dentists

14. Fear of driving
Fear of crowds
E – a block of flats, high place
D – a lot of people,
full of people.

15. fear
terrified
scared frightened
dizzy
panic
suffers from
panic (v) suffers from
(v)
scared (adj) fear (n)
dizzy (adj) terrified
(adj)
frightened
(adj)

18. You can have a phobia of pretty much anything, but there are over
_____ recognised phobias out there!
Phobias such as a fear of heights (acrophobia), fear of flying
(aviophobia), fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), fear of
spiders (arachnophobia), fear of snakes (ophidiophobia), fear of
dogs (cynophobia), fear of needles (trypanophobia) and the fear of
germs (mysophobia) are all pretty common.
A) 200
B) 400
C) 600
400

19. Nearly 15-20% of us experience specific phobias at least once in our
life. In the U.S., nearly _ % of adults have at least one extreme
specific fear and nearly 25 million Americans report having the fear
of flying phobia.
A) 4
B) 6
C) 8
8

20. Which is male and female?
Which two age groups are
the highest?
(A) Under 18 (B) 18-34 (C) 35-49 (D) 60-64 (E) Above 65

21. Nomophobia is a very modern fear: People who have one of
these weird phobias check their _____________ obsessively
and suffer extreme anxiety if they are unable to use it. This
fear often stems from an addiction.
A) mobile
B) email
C) heart rate
mobile

22. People with Geliophobia have the fear of _______. They also
hate the sound of other people __________ if they have one
of these weird phobias. Some people just feel slightly
uncomfortable, while others could also start hyperventilating.
A) laughing
B) crying
C) sneezing
laughing
laughing

24. Spiders
Since she
was 12
A very big spider went
across the room in the
flat where she lived.
She’s better now and can
sit in same room as a
spider, but not for long.
In the past it affected
her a lot –
Buttons
Since she was six or
seven months old
Her mum tried to dress
her in a cardigan with
buttons.
She has problems buying
winter coats, as there aren’t
many that don’t have
buttons. She doesn’t like
hugging people who are
wearing clothes with buttons

25. Julie –
• She had 6 weeks of therapy and hypnosis.
• She can remove from her house a spider now
• She did a final test at the end of a spider in
a jar.

27. Chloe -
• Not had any therapy.
• She thinks it’s a silly thing to be afraid
of.
• If the buttons aren’t touching her
then she’s fine.

28. 1. When she was 12. / More than 30 years ago.
2. Yes (but less than bef
3. The present perfect (have + past participle)

32. How long have you been afraid of flying?
How long has your sister had her new car?
How long have they lived in this town?
How long has your dad been a teacher?
How long have you known your boyfriend?
How long has Spain been in the EU?
How long have you had your cat?
How long has Dan been in this class?

34. ‘ve been afraid of flying since
‘s had her car for
‘ve lived in this town for
‘s been a teacher for
1.
2.
3.
4.

35. ‘ve known my boyfriend since
‘s been in the EU since
‘ve had our cat for
‘s been in this class since
5.
6.
7.
8.

36. since
for
since
since
since
since
for
for
for
for
since
for

37. • First question
• Present simple
• If yes,
• Second question
• Present simple
• Then final question
• Present perfect.
• If no, go to the
next question.

40. • You are going to play a guessing game to practice the present
perfect and time expressions that go with for and since.
• Firstly, complete the sentences in the 'My information' column
with true information about you.
• Next, write the names of the other group members at the top of
the three columns.
• Then go through the sentences again and make guesses about
what the other students wrote by writing a point in time or
period of time accordingly.
• After that, take it in turns to give their guesses for one of the
group member's first sentence.
• So this by each making a sentence in turn, e.g. 'I think you've had
your mobile phone for nine months', etc.

41. • When all three students have given their guesses, the correct
answer is revealed by the student.
• If a student guessed correctly, they score two points. If no one
got the right answer, one point is awarded to the student(s) who
gave the closest guess.
• When you are awarded points, they write them on their own
worksheet.
• Take it in turns to give their guesses for another group member's
first sentence and so on.
• This continues until the correct answers have been given for all
the sentences.
• The student with the most points at the end of the game wins.