FEELINGS ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE

 

ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE PRE INTERMEDIATE UNIT 12 FEELINGS

 

A How do you feel? Language help   We use emotion and feeling(s) for something which someone feels strongly about, e.g. love, hate or anger. Emotions are part of our character, e.g. Timo is a very emotional person. [shows his feelings easily] Feeling is often plural, e.g. She doesn’t like talking about her feelings. B The effect of the weather on our feelings Why do people say they feel more cheerful [happy] when the sun shines, and miserable [unhappy] when it’s raining? Why do some people suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder), which makes them feel depressed [unhappy, often for a long time, and without hope for the future] during long dark winters? Can the weather really affect our mood [the way we feel at a particular time], or is it just in our imaginations? C The effect of colour on our emotions   EXERCISES 12.1 Cover the opposite page. Complete the tables. 12.2 Find the best sentence ending on the right for each of the sentence beginnings on the left. 1 He was very anxious when C a he heard his aunt had died. 2 He was very jealous when b his father appeared on TV with the Prime Minister. 3 He was very scared when c his 14-year-old daughter didn’t get home until 2 am. 4 He was very proud when d he saw the man coming towards him with a knife. 5 He was very upset when e he was ill. 6 He was very miserable when f his best friend went out with the girl he really liked. 12.3 Match the words and faces. 12.4 Complete the sentences. 1 My aunt had to ____ care____ for her elderly mother for years. 2 I can’t tell whether Mia is happy or not; she never shows her ___________. 3 I’m much more ___________ in the mornings. By the afternoon I feel tired. 4 Weather has a big ___________ on the way I feel. 5 He’s been under a lot of ___________ recently because of the amount of work he has to do. 6 Oliver’s cheerful one minute and miserable the next; his___________ changes all the time. 7 It’s been a depressing month, but I’m ___________ things will get better next month. 8 I don’t like walking home in the dark. I get very___________. 12.5

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