How to express fear and uncertainty in English
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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
uncertain of something okay so as you
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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
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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
um
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
fear
so
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
or
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
next
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
like
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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let’s break this downward first it’s in
the title of today’s lesson uncertainty
so
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
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
or
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
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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