English Unlimited HAK/HUM 2, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

How do you feel? 86 Your emotions 07 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE LOOK AGAIN EXTRAS Mini research project. Go on the internet and do some research on one of the following topics. You may also choose one of your own. Present your findings in class. Are there any curious facts that you have always wanted to know about? Talk together. In groups, talk about the following questions. Choose words from the table to complete the conversations. 1 “I’m very hungry . Shall we make some dinner?” “Good idea. I’m absolutely .” 2 “Are you sure the shops will be open tomorrow? “Yes, I’m . Don’t worry.” 3 “You look really . Have you had a long day?” “Yeah, I’m exhausted . I’m going to bed.” 4 “It’s very hot in here, isn’t it?” “Hot? It’s . Can we open a window?” SPEakING 5 a b 7 a why we get the hiccups why we get goosebumps 1 What kinds of emotions do you know? 2 How do people show them? 3 Do you think it is good to show emotions? Why? /Why not? why we sneeze when we look at the sun why we get a stitch when we run The human eye produces three kinds of tears. Basal tears are produced all the time to keep our eyes wet and help us to see. Reflex tears clean our eyes when we get dirt in them or, for example, chop onions. Emotional tears are produced when we’re very sad or happy, or in great pain. Interestingly, emotional tears contain a lot of chemicals and hormones which we don’t find in the other kinds of tear. Basal and reflex tears are certainly useful, but why do we produce emotional tears? Why do emotional tears have a different chemistry from other tears? Why do we cry at all? There seem to be two answers to these questions. First, when we feel very strong emotions like extreme sadness or happiness, our bodies make a lot of extra chemicals and hormones. Then, when we cry, our emotional tears take these chemicals and hormones out of our bodies. This may be why people s ome t i me s say that they ‘feel better’ after crying. One of the hormones in emotional tears is prolactin. Women usually have about twice as much prolactin in their bodies as men, and this may explain why women cry more often than men. The second reason for crying is to communicate with other people. Babies can’t speak, so they use crying to tell people when they’re hungry, frightened, and so on. As adults, we cry less often but we probably cry for the same reasons: to show people that we’re in physical or emotional pain, and that we need help. Why do people cry? VoCabULaRY 6 Extreme adjectives Ordinary adjectives Extreme adjectives angry cold pleased hot hungry frightened sure surprised tired amazed boiling delighted exhausted furious freezing positive starving terrified Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv