Segunda lección de nuestro curso de inglés en su nivel intermedio. La lección de hoy te va a permitir aprender a cerca de la expresión de sentimientos, centrada, de manera particular, en aquel sentimiento que llamamos miedo. Siguiendo este cometido aprenderás a utilizar adjetivos con preposiciones. Te en cuenta que en el idioma Inglés se usa mucho las preposiciones como las que hoy vamos a estudiar.

Upper intermediate - fears

Study points

Today´s lesson is about expressing feelings, in particular expressing fears. We´re also going to talk about adjectives with prepositions.
English uses a lot of these prepositions.

Watch

Kirsten is telling Jen about what she is afraid of. Let´s watch.

Learn

Did you follow the conversation? Do you share the same feelings about speaking in public? Now we are going to take a closer look at some of the grammar from the movie. The grammar we will look at now is the compound formed by an adjective followed by a preposition. For example, when the adjective "excited" is followed by the preposition "about", we have "excited about". As in: "Kirsten was definitely not excited about her presentation tomorrow". We have another common adjective preposition compound, and that is the phrase "good at", as in "to be good at something". Our example here is "I´m not good at public speaking".

Another such phrase is "surprised by", as in "I was surprised by her fear of public speaking". Kirsten was telling Jane how she was afraid of public speaking. "Kirsten was afraid of public speaking".

Our last example for this is "bored with", and to put in the context of Jen and Kirsten conversation, we could say that "Jen was bored with Kirsten´s complaints".

Try

Read each statement and guess which preposition is correct:

"I´m not good __ public speaking" (at)
"There´s nothing to be afraid ___" (of)
"You´re not scared __ speaking in front of a big group?" (of)
"I just get _____ ______ being in the spotlight like that" (nervous about)

Review points

Today we´ve been talking about expressing fears, and to use adjectives with prepositions, such as:

"good at"
"afraid of"
"nervous about"