WARM-UP VIDEO FOR PAST SIMPLE

Instructions. Watch a video about an fMRI experiment and type phrases with verbs in Past Simple

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

To explain this, I have a rather disgusting but very fascinating study. So, in this study, researchers (1) ………….. sweat pads from people who ran on a treadmill. Then (2) ………….. sweat pads from skydivers on their first time skydive. Two very different kinds of sweat. Here is the disgusting part. Then (3) ………….. poor unsuspecting participants - (Laughter) I know - (4) ………….. unsuspecting participants in the lab (sniffing) smell these sweat pads while they were in an fMRI machine. Here's where it gets interesting. Even though the participants (5) ………….. no idea what they were smelling, the ones (6) ………….. the skydiving sweat pads (7) ………….. their fear response in their brain activated. In other words, (8) ………….. the fear. This means that our emotions are contagious. Our fear is contagious. Our confidence is contagious.

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

To explain this, I have a rather disgusting but very fascinating study. So, in this study, researchers (1) (collected) sweat pads from people who ran on a treadmill. Then (2) (they collected) sweat pads from skydivers on their first time skydive. Two very different kinds of sweat. Here is the disgusting part. Then (3) (they had) poor unsuspecting participants - (Laughter) I know - (4) (they had) unsuspecting participants in the lab (sniffing) smell these sweat pads while they were in an fMRI machine. Here's where it gets interesting. Even though the participants (5) (had) no idea what they were smelling, the ones (6) (that smelled) the skydiving sweat pads (7) (had) their fear response in their brain activated. In other words, (8) (they caught) the fear. This means that our emotions are contagious. Our fear is contagious. Our confidence is contagious.

Sources: 

Channel: TEDx Talks. You are contagious | Vanessa Van Edwards | TEDxLondon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cef35Fk7YD8

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