Feeling and Cause
Eight pairs: what happened, and the feeling it leaves behind.
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The cause is drawn beside the feeling. If the cause is not true, the word is wrong.
Name a feeling exactly and say what caused it, the way a good Speaking Part 2 story does.
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Eight situations. Decide what you would say for each one before you read on.
Each of these words implies what happened before it — which is how you tell a story without telling it.
Every one of those eight situations has its own word in English, and you have met all eight before.
Saying happy for four different situations is not a vocabulary problem. It is a retrieval problem — the precise word exists, it just does not arrive in time.
What makes the precise word worth so much in a two-minute answer is that it implies the story.
Eight pairs: what happened, and the feeling it leaves behind.
The cause is drawn beside the feeling. If the cause is not true, the word is wrong.
Eight things that happened. Which feeling does each one leave?
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Three situations. Work out the feeling from the cause, not from how bad it sounds.
Chain 1
What happened: the exam result was worse than expected. Nothing and nobody had stopped her working.
Candidates: frustrated / disappointed
The feeling:
Because:
Chain 2
What happened: he tried to submit the form eleven times and the site rejected it every time.
Candidates: frustrated / disappointed
The feeling:
Because:
Chain 3
What happened: she had been worrying about the medical test for a fortnight. The results came back clear.
Candidates: excited / relieved
The feeling:
Because:
A Speaking Part 2 story with the feelings and their prepositions removed.
Describe a time you had to wait for something important.
Last year I applied for a scholarship to study abroad. I had wanted to go for years, so when I sent the application I was genuinely about the whole idea — I had already started looking at photographs of the city.
Then came three months of waiting, and I was extremely about it. Every time an email arrived I checked it immediately.
What made it worse was the website. It said the results would appear in my account, but the page never loaded properly. I tried perhaps twenty times over two weeks, and I got very — not with the decision, which had not happened yet, but with the website itself.
When the letter finally arrived I was mostly that the waiting had ended, before I had even opened it.
The answer was no. I was with the result, because I had genuinely thought I had a chance.
But my tutor spent an afternoon going through the application with me and showed me what to change, and I am still very to her for that. I applied again the following year and got it — and I think my family were even more of me than I was.