How to express fear and uncertainty in English

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lesson i’m going to talk about some

vocabulary words that are uh used to

talk about fear of course and we’re also

going to talk about some expressions

some sentences you can use to express

when you feel afraid or unsure or

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going to talk about today today

uh we’re going to look at this so first

we are going to start with vocabulary

some very basic vocabulary words and the

differences between them second we are

going to talk about some basic patterns

you can use to express fear and lastly

we are going to talk about uh some

uncertainty expressions and for fun some

escape expressions so maybe you’ve heard

a lot of these expressions in scary

movies and

in like media already um so i hope we

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let’s get started let’s begin with basic

vocabulary for this lesson let’s talk

about basic vocabulary i want to start

this lesson

uh with a key vocabulary uh or grammar

review that is the difference between

scary and scared the difference between

scary and scared

let’s start with the word scary scary

something that is scary

is something that causes a person to

feel

fear

fear so this is a noun it means that

feeling of oh no something bad is going

to happen

okay

something that is scary causes a person

to feel fear

for example

that movie was scary

or her boss is scary okay so a person

can be scary right that movie was scary

her boss is scary that caused me to feel

fear okay

let’s compare this to scared

with an ed at the end scared so scared

is the feeling that refers to the

feeling of being afraid

right so scared

is an emotion

scary is something outside us yeah a

movie another person a situation scared

is an emotion we feel okay the feeling

of being afraid

okay

for example

i’m scared

turn on the lights i’m scared turn on

the lights or

she’s scared of snakes

right so in other words snakes make her

feel afraid okay

so we cannot just change scary and

scared we can’t do that for example her

boss is scared doesn’t mean her boss

causes fear right that means her boss

has the emotion

of fear this changes the meaning of the

sentence okay so scary

is the cause right the cause of the fear

scared

is the emotion we feel okay

so please please please try to keep this

in mind scared and scary are different

okay some examples are coming in my

homework is scary it could be

maybe your homework causes you to feel

fear okay your homework is scary

okay some other examples are coming in

commonwealth says i was scared of public

speaking nice daphne says snakes are

scary so i am scared of snakes yeah

scared of don’t forget this preposition

we’re going to practice this pattern

later how do you express the things you

are scared of okay facebook i don’t see

example sentences from you yet but

please feel free to send some if you

okay uh apado says you scared me yes you

can use you scared me i’m going to talk

about that in part two also

uh tommy says my mother is scary oh okay

nice one good example sentences miguel

says after the class i’m going to watch

a scary

movie okay cool cool

uh labcond on facebook says i’m scared

of the dark i’m scared of the dark we

use the dark that’s an interesting

expression we’re going to talk about

that in part two

nice examples okay let’s go

to the next two words i wanted to

include these because of the season it’s

halloween this week so i wanted to talk

about these uh two words

that are like uh that are related to

this topic so first is creepy creepy

this is an adjective creepy

so creepy

refers to someone or something

that causes a feeling of unease

unease what is unease ease maybe you can

hear ease right here sounds like easy

right so ease means you feel kind of

easy you feel relaxed right

on means not yeah so

not easy or not relaxed so creepy

means someone or something that makes

you feel not relaxed like you feel

something’s a little strange or

something’s a little off

and a little scary usually here

so for example that guy is creepy that

guy is creepy i don’t feel relaxed

around him

or old houses are creepy yeah so you

don’t feel relaxed with these things

yeah so we use creepy to describe that

feeling

scary it’s like

i’m afraid i want to run away but creepy

is just like

doesn’t seem right yeah so we use creepy

to explain this feeling

okay

creepy finally finally the word haunted

i wanted to include haunted because we

use this a lot in media for sure haunted

this is another adjective haunted means

a place where ghosts are

right so like a house or uh like a scary

place in the forest i don’t know i don’t

i don’t really like horror movies

they’re i’m really not very good at

watching scary things but haunted

haunted means a place where ghosts or

spirits or something lives like strange

things happen in that place we usually

use haunted to talk about a location so

a location is haunted that means a

location has ghosts okay for example

let’s go to the haunted house let’s go

to the haunted house so you maybe you’ve

seen this a haunted house

around this time of year in the usa is

not a real haunted house like it’s a

it’s kind of like an amusement park just

for fun so usually like people in the

community create this scary house just

for fun to go into as families so a

haunted house is a popular attraction at

this time of year

another one is your apartment haunted is

your apartment haunted that means does

your apartment have ghosts in it so

haunted is a very common word at this

time of year for talking about places

with ghosts and spirits

okay

all right some other examples are coming

in lots of you are using creepy that man

with the mustache looks creepy says zach

okay

great or that room is creepy says miguel

good

a laratam says haunted cemetery yeah a

cemetery that is a very very common

place for hauntings and things like that

okay

um oh be careful i saw somebody i missed

it on facebook wrote hunted not not

hunted but haunted don’t forget this a

here haunted house yeah a haunted house

okay

good aditi says i’m scared of haunted

places nice combination of the two okay

looks good yeah some people are riding

hunted not hunted it’s not hunted

haunted

h-a-u haunted house haunted house

someone wrote my teacher is creepy

tabi muhammad on facebook does that mean

me am i creepy

maybe

okay so haunted haunted okay great so

these are some key vocabulary words

we’re going to practice these two a lot

in today’s lesson so let’s go to a quick

break and then we’ll go to part two

expressing fear okay if you missed it

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okay let’s go to part two now part two

so in part two we’re going to practice

some sentence patterns okay so

uh in this part we’re going to focus

on fear so in part three we’re going to

talk about uncertainty

in this part let’s talk about expressing

fear

two patterns some of you in the chat

already uh use these but

to express

your fear to express something you feel

afraid of this is the basic sentence

pattern i’m afraid of noun phrase

i’m scared of noun phrase we use both of

these words here you can choose i’m

afraid of or i’m scared of

in if you want to like talk about really

like a like something scary like a scary

movie or something like that we use

scared more if you want to talk about

like general life things that maybe make

you worried use afraid

okay so let’s look at some examples i’m

afraid of the dark i’m afraid of the

dark

this

uh right here someone mentioned earlier

this expression we always use the dark

the dark it’s a set expression it means

just dark situations like night time we

always use i’m afraid of the dark so it

always takes uh the definite article

there i’m afraid of the dark

another one i’m afraid of heights

heights so maybe you can see height in

this word yeah heights

always we always use it in the plural

form in this expression heights means

tall places i’m afraid of tall places so

like a really big skyscraper if you go

inside and look out it feels that’s that

scary feeling we express that with i’m

afraid of heights

heights always plural i’m afraid of

heights

okay

i’m afraid of small spaces small

spaces small spaces so like in a very

small elevator maybe or some place you

don’t have body space right small spaces

for advanced learners this is called

claustrophobia claustrophobia so i’m

afraid of small spaces okay next one uh

i am scared of snakes i used this before

i’m scared of snakes or i’m scared of

spiders those things that make you jump

right you see them like outside you’re

you could say i’m scared of snakes or

i’m scared of spiders

juan carlos says i’m afraid of scorpions

good cloth says i’m afraid of growing

older alone yeah that’s a common one too

people said i’m afraid of the virus sure

okay good okay some people oh lots of

lots of good examples are coming in

alaradam says i’m afraid of getting

rejected

totally yeah common one

um i’m afraid of failure says rudy great

good examples um jay bond says i’m

scared of cockroaches me too i hate

cockroaches they’re so gross i don’t

like them

okay lots of people are writing

scorpions as well afraid of scorpions

good examples everybody

alright

nice okay lots of good examples so now

let’s go to the second pattern

we can flip this this pattern

here to talk about that thing that

causes fear in a different way so you

can choose the pattern

the second pattern you can use is noun

phrase is or are depending on this

is or are really scary or just scary

that’s that’s okay too

for example the movie

is really scary right we practiced this

earlier the movie is really scary so

scary

means it causes me to feel fear the

movie is really scary

or big spiders

are really scary right plural big

spiders

are really scary

or my neighbor is really scary so you

can use this pattern to talk about other

things in your life that you think oh

that’s kind of scary so use this basic

pattern one of these two

basic patterns to express your fear okay

good lots of examples are coming in i’m

afraid of heights i’m afraid of rats i’m

scared of rats sorry good the movie is

really scary good good good good okay

finally let’s finish part two with a few

expressions

a couple expressions and one verb

pattern too someone else in the chat

earlier said you scared me you scared me

yeah this right here uh this scared this

is used as a verb okay so earlier we

talked about adjective use of scared we

also use this as a verb you scared me

means you caused me to feel fear

so we use this

after someone surprises us like they

jump out from behind something i don’t

know what they do someone surprises us

we often respond like we scream or

something and say oh you scared me you

scared me

so not scare but you scared past tense

you scared me

okay

next one you might also hear this one

after

or you might use this after someone

surprises you it’s don’t scare me like

that or just don’t scare me

so don’t scare me like that so like for

example after you watch a scary movie

maybe your friends or someone they i

don’t know they tease you or they jump

out at you you could say don’t scare me

or don’t scare me like that

so these two are used in response

to something scary when you’re like you

want to express that to like your friend

or your family member or someone yeah

you scared me

okay

last point uh the last point for part

two is a verb pattern i want to talk

about this verb pattern so we talked up

here about adjectives using um these

adjectives

plus a noun phrase

how do you talk about a verb like an

action you’re afraid of right here

i’m afraid to infinitive verb phrase

infinitive again the dictionary form

yeah so no change to the verb here for

example i’m afraid to go inside i’m

afraid to go inside the house yeah like

a haunted house situation

i’m afraid to go inside so here’s my

infinitive yeah to go or i’m afraid to

walk in the dark i’m afraid to walk in

the dark or i’m afraid to leave my house

i’m afraid to leave my house

so this part infinitive

is here go walk and leave so not leaves

or relieved or leaving nope

to go to walk to leave i’m afraid to

leave my house

okay

so use this for a verb some action

you’re afraid of doing

okay

um someone

wacko on youtube right don’t scary me

with snakes please don’t scare scare

verb yeah scary is the adjective so

scare is a verb also we need to use it

as a verb here

okay cool great um

nando says is startle the same as scare

startle is

i would say they’re different yes but

when in the moment when we react we

might feel they’re the same thing

startle is like a quick jump like

something surprised you quickly i was

startled or that startled me

scare is kind of like deeper like we

thought something bad was going to

happen to us maybe some there was

something dangerous startle is like

lighter in my mind yeah good question

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all right let’s talk about uncertainty

let’s break this downward first it’s in

the title of today’s lesson uncertainty

inside uncertainty we talked about un

earlier certain is in here yeah certain

so certain means sure right when we feel

100 about something i am certain i am

sure

uncertain means not sure right so

expressing uncertainty refers to

expressing that feeling of not being

sure about something when you’re not

sure of something how do you express

that

okay so we have this first one i’m not

sure right i’m not sure i have here this

ellipsis

i’m not sure about this or i’m not sure

about that this is a common expression

in like movies and tv before something

bad happens yeah i’m not sure i’m not

sure about this i’m not sure about that

you can use this to express uncertainty

usually about a plan someone’s idea

something like that i’m not sure

or you can use this to mean i don’t know

also like hey do you know where this

station is i’m not sure

so you are not certain right uncertain

okay next one is i don’t think that’s a

good idea

i don’t think that’s a good idea okay so

someone shares their idea and you want

to say no so i don’t think that’s a good

idea i don’t think that’s a good idea

okay so you’re not certain again you’re

not 100

sure

okay next one is this question phrase it

as a question make a question

are you sure

so this kind of dot dot dot you’ll see

we use this in speech also

to show

we have a low level of certainty are you

sure are you sure about that so use it

as a question to express that

uncertainty okay

uh this next one is like a negotiation

question right so you think um you’re

not sure

can we talk about it can we talk about

it or can we talk about this

i’m not sure can we talk about this so

this means you want to have a discussion

about it yeah so this is maybe in like a

like a planning situation not in like a

fear situation i don’t know but can we

talk about it i’m not sure

and one more

i don’t have a good feeling about this i

don’t have a good feeling about this

so i don’t have a good feeling means

when you think about this situation or

you think about the plan you feel

not great like you feel afraid or you

feel something bad is going to happen

you can say i don’t have a good feeling

about this this is common in like movies

and tv yeah

in like action films and horror films

okay all right so i don’t have a good

feeling about this

okay cool so those are some uncertainty

expressions um

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others oh uh kareem writes let’s think

twice about that i’m not sure let’s

think good point so we sometimes use the

expression like to think twice you might

hear something like that to think twice

means like to think again right to think

about something more than one time

uh so you might hear something like that

uh it’s i feel like it’s not used a lot

but you may see it from time to time

okay so i don’t have a good feeling

about this all right so uh time oh my

gosh time went quick as always let’s go

to the last part escape expressions

escape expressions what does escape mean

to escape means to run out of a place we

are stuck in so like from jail or from

prison or a haunted house or something

you need to get out

of a dangerous place you escape to

escape okay so let’s talk about some

escape expressions of course run

run you see this in action movies all

the time right run so meaning escape we

don’t say escape

we usually use escape after it has

happened we say it like as a report like

uh we we escaped the haunted house or

something when we’re in the moment we

usually say run

let’s get out of here let’s get out of

here so this part get out means leave

yeah let’s get out of here

a native speed in like horror movies you

probably hear this sentence really fast

so they don’t say let’s get out of here

they say let’s get out of here let’s get

out of here

so this means escape yes like i want to

leave but we also use this when we leave

like parties too like are you ready to

go let’s get out of here this can

sometimes be used in like a casual

friendly way so just pay attention to

the situation

okay last one

we have to leave now

again an action movie an action movie

line we have to leave now so have to is

in this yeah so like there’s some

responsibility it’s important to leave

now

so we have to leave now or we have to

get out of here now so you’ll hear kind

of a mix of these when people escape

from dangerous situations okay so of

course there are lots of them some of

you are

you’re sending them uh in the chat a few

of them like run let’s get out of this

place oh run for your life yeah good

examples everybody escape

all right so you can use these to talk

about running away from danger ah and

you can use it to just leave uh an

everyday situation sometimes too yeah

captain t we gotta go that’s another one

so lots and lots of fun expressions you

can use here okay but i have to end i

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end there for today those are some

expressions that you can use to talk

about fear and uncertainty and escaping

from dangerous situations so if you want

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we talked about vocabulary scary and

scared that’s the big point for today

scary scared and scared

and we also talked about basic sentence

patterns for expressing fear and we

talked about uncertainty and escape

expressions too so i hope that you found

something that you can use especially

this week

because it is halloween um but i hope

you can use these and pick up on these

uh in as you’re experiencing media too

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