What we read
We have just read and checked our understanding of "Superhuman Powers," the second reading in Unit 7 of Skillful RW2.
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Our response
Having read the text a couple of times, Rogers and Wilkin now invite us to respond to the ideas in a critical thinking exercise.
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Roger and Wilkins' questions
Comment on the following questions, which are the two critical thinking questions on page 59 (Rogers & Wilkin, 2013), and then reply to at least two of your classmates' comments.
questions
- Do you agree that fear can be positive? Why?
- How might fear be positive in each of the situations in the box?
Since your time is limited, I suggest you spend a minute thinking about the four situations and then write a short paragraph responding to two of them that interest you the most.
The situations are: - being near a dangerous snake
- giving a presentation
- running a race
- taking an exam
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Reference
- Rogers, L. & Wilkin, J. (2013). Skillful Reading & Writing: Student's Book 2. London: Macmillan Education
Yes, I agree that fear can be positive. In the nature of human, we have fear in both negative and positive way. If you get fear and do not be courage to face with it, it means you fail. In contrast, although you are scared with it, you are out of your comfort zone. That positive is a proud of yourself to conquer and get better your potential level. Then, you will find that it makes you stronger.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree that fear can be positive because the feeling of fear can get you lose your consciousness and it can cause the problem.
ReplyDeleteTalking about the positive fear, In some situation fear can be positive feeling too. Such as you are in the running competition, if have fear of lose, you brain will increase your physical fitness. Or while you are taking an exam and you don't want to fail, your brain will work better than usual.
But I think it affect not that much.
DeleteI absolutely agree that fear are positive because if you fear, you will do something faster and it help you survive with dangerous situation. For example, when you see snake, you can run faster. When you giving a presentation, if you fear you will do this carefully.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree, For physical aspect, I think the fear makes us more stronger and faster.Fear can increase our respond speed and let us keep away from bad situations immediately.In past time, our ancestors often faced danger situation, fear makes our ancestors react quickly and escape the bad situations, it is benefit for human alive.
ReplyDeleteI agree that fear can be positive because when you have to face with a threat, you'll be stimulated to escape from that situation by unlock some abilities you've never did before.
ReplyDeleteFear might be positive such as fear of taking an examination because if you fear that you'll fail the exam you'll have more motivation to study hard and read books.
I don't agree fear can be positive, because I think fear always make me feel nervous, sometimes I don't like this feeling. I want to learn scuba diving, but I scared water, I still learned it. It's not a good experience in my life. I think I want to do that it's not fear make some positive feeling, just I really want to see the beautiful view under the sea.
ReplyDeleteI agree that fear can be positive because knowing that something can make me fear might cause me to think carefully in order to avoid the worst outcome when I have to deal with it.
ReplyDeleteIf there is a dangerous snake near me, it would better to fear and run away from the snake because the worst case might be that I got bitten by the snake and die.
Yes, I agree that fear can be positive because sometime when we fear of something it will make us do the impossible thing to be possible. For example when you face a snake and you run away because of you fear the snake in order to stay alive we will run faster than usually and ever before.
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