Facing fears Lesson 90 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Fear is a normal feeling that warns us about danger, but sometimes it is much bigger than the real danger. 1 Fears shrink when you know the facts, when you talk about them with someone you trust, when you have a plan, and when you face them in small steps. 2 Slow breathing helps with every fear: breathe in through your nose and out slowly through your mouth, and your body calms down. 3 A girl in Toronto is scared of the deep end; she learns with a swimming teacher, a little deeper each week, and by the summer she jumps in with a smile while the lifeguard watches. 4 Walk past a barking dog slowly and calmly without staring or running, because running can make a dog chase you. 5 Almost everyone feels stage fright; practising and slow breathing help, and the fear often fades once you start. 6 Talking about a scary film with a parent makes the fear smaller, and films are made up with special effects. 7 A vaccination stings for only a second, and the vaccine protects you from serious illnesses; telling the nurse, looking away and breathing out slowly helps. 8 Asking the dentist to explain what they will do and agreeing a hand signal to pause makes a visit much less scary. 9 In a thunderstorm, stay indoors away from windows; counting the seconds between the flash and the bang shows how far away the storm is: the longer the gap, the further away it is, so a growing gap means it is moving away. 10 Most spiders and insects are harmless; keep your distance and ask an adult to move them, and in Australia some spiders need an adult. 11 Courage in the water grows by small steps with a teacher, and you only swim where an adult is watching. 12 Worries kept inside grow, so tell your parents about them and ask for the real facts. 13 The news shows the worst things, so ask an adult to explain and limit how much news you watch. 14 Agreeing a meeting place with your family before going into a crowd means you know what to do if you get lost; if you are lost, ask a staff member or a parent with children for help. 15 A girl in Florida was too scared to tell anyone she could not swim and went into the deep end with friends; a lifeguard had to pull her out. 16 A boy in Leeds was afraid of the dentist and hid his toothache for weeks; by the time he went, the tooth needed taking out instead of a small filling. 17 Hiding a fear sometimes leads people into danger, while telling an adult gets help. 18 Fears usually get smaller when you face them in small, safe steps with support. ← previous Handling angernext → Worry and sadness↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/90-facing-fears/