Stop Watching the News – English for Psychology with illustrated vocabulary flashcards, selected text as authentic context, and a video podcast Source of image: https://news.northeastern.edu/ Listening practice Watch this video on YouTube Reading practice It hurts your mental health The top story and headlines of the day are usually one of three things. A death,…
How to Manage Anxiety – English for Psychology with a video to improve listening, selected text for reading practice and illustrated flashcards inside the text Source of image: https://www.calmclinic.com/ Listening practice Watch this video on YouTube Reading practice What is anxiety? Anxiety involves feelings of worry, fear, and apprehension. Anxiety is typically experienced on cognitive,…
Distress 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 32 /dɪˈstres/ (noun & verb) Noun: anxiety and sadness, sorrow, pain, anguish, agony, wretchedness, mental suffering, misery, grief – danger or difficulty, trouble, hardship, misfortune Verb: to upset or disturb someone, agitate, worry, trouble, perturb, afflict, bother, torment, vex, annoy On 16 January 1838 a petition asking for help…
Dread 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 10 with synonyms, antonyms and parts of speech for IELTS, TOEFL & GRE students in authentic and real context /dred/ (adj, noun & verb) Verb: to feel worried and anxious about something, worry about, be frightened of, be afraid of, have forebodings about, flinch from, shrink from, withdraw, get…
Phobia 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 Phobia 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 4 /ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ US /ˈfoʊ.bjə/ (noun) an extreme fear of something in particular which does not have a reasonable foundation, horror, terror, fright, dread, paranoia, anxiety Fear of dogs, known clinically as cynophobia, is a type of stimulus-specific phobia.…
Neurotic 1100 Words You Need Neurotic 1100 Words You Need /njʊəˈrɒt.ɪk/ (adj & noun) Adjective: behaving anxiously because of a mental disease, irascible, agitated, irritated, affected by neurosis, overanxious or obsessive, anxious, fearful, phobic, hung up, disturbed, fixated, irrational Noun: someone affected by neurosis, pessimist, worrier, fusspot Lots of people feel anxious from time to…
On Tenterhooks 1100 Words On Tenterhooks 1100 Words in a state of suspense and agitation, nervous, excited, apprehensive, on edge, agitated, anxious, a state of anxiety Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails in a device called a tenter. Tenters were wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the…
Anxiety Anxiety (noun) /æŋˈzaɪ.ə.ti/ US /-ţi/ 1. the psychological state of being worried and frightened for a continuous period of time – nervousness: His intense anxiety was the reason why he saw a psychologist. 2. willingness to do something – eagerness: I was suddenly filled with the anxiety to approach her and propose to her…
Panic Panic (noun & verb) /ˈpæn.ɪk/ a sudden feeling of fear and anxiety, terror, horror, anxiety, fright, dread The mother got into a panic when she couldn’t find her little child in the crowd. Antonym: calm, calmness Adjective: panicky
Reading and listening practice on how to stay calm in crucial moments with a video and its transcript Listening practice on how to stay calm Lecturer, author or publisher: Noa Kageyama and Pen-Pen Chen on TED-Ed YouTube Channel Watch this video on YouTube Reading practice on how to stay calm Your favorite athlete closes in…