STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
| (1) | What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘phobia’? |
| (2) | Do you have any phobias? |
| (3) | How can someone confront and overcome a phobia? |
| (4) | Are all phobias irrational? |
| (5) | How do phobias develop? |
| (6) | Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to your mouth. Do you know of any other crazy phobias? |
| (7) | Do you know anyone who suffers from vertigo – a fear of heights? |
| (8) | What do you think eremophobia - the fear of oneself – is like? |
| (9) | Are people in your country xenophobic (they fear or hate foreigners)? |
| (10) | Can you guess what these phobias are – hydrophobia, zoophobia, sociophobia and numerophobia? What would life be like with these? (Answers: fear of water, animals, society and numbers.) |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)
| (1) | What is a phobia? |
| (2) | What’s the difference between a phobia and a fear? |
| (3) | Gary Larson, a famous cartoonist, invented Anatidaephobia - the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. Can you understand this phobia? Can you invent your own crazy phobia? |
| (4) | Do you know anyone with haemophobia – a fear of blood? |
| (5) | Do you think people are developing new phobias? |
| (6) | What do you think would be the worst phobia to suffer from? |
| (7) | Charlie Brown said: "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." Do you also do this? |
| (8) | Do you, or anyone you know, suffer from Anglophobia – a fear of English and English people? How would this affect your studying? |
| (9) | Do you think hypnotherapy can cure phobias? |
| (10) | Someone once said: “Get the facts first. Then panic.” Is this good advice? |
