1. Find the verbs used by the author to describe ways of handling uncertainty

1. to make something less bad or severe

2. to make sure that something bad does not happen, to deliberately stay away from someone or something:

3. to stop something from happening, or stop someone from doing something:

4. to be connected or to show that two or more thing are connected:

5. to protect someone or something from being attacked

6. to encourage a feeling or skill to develop

7. to say that something will happen:

8. to deliberately avoid someone or something

9. to make something become less in size, amount, price etc

2. Vocabulary development

Find sentences with corresponding derivatives

verb	noun	adjective
to avoid
to prevent
to defend
to relate
to predict
to support
to reduce
to confuse
to stimulate

3. Give definitions of the following terms “ anxiety”, “ fear ”, “risk ”, “uncertainty”

Follow the example: Stress -- continuous feelings of worry about your work or personal life that prevent you from relaxing special attention or importance given to something.

• be under stress: She's been under a lot of stress at work lately.

• stresses and strains: the stresses and strains of modern life

• Stress is just part and parcel of everyday life.

4. Match synonymic word combinations with those used by the author

unskilled factory workers, consumption , observer, to release, stability, university professor

advisor, intake, beholder, layman, to manifest, solidity,

5. Find in the text the corresponding equivalents

• умереть от страха

• культурное наследство

• внимательное изучение чего-либо

• перед лицом неизвестности

• неотъемлемая часть чего- либо

• спрятанная агрессия

• интернализовать что-либо

• недостаток интеллектуальных стимулов

• запой

• благосостояние

• внутренняя потребность

6. Find sentences with verbs followed by -ing forms, infinitives and constructions. Translate them in a written form.

7. Think over the following questions:

What is the nature of uncertainty?

Are you ready to risk and to act against rules, if necessary?

Is it better to express rather than suppress your emotions?

What do you think – is there any dependency between uncertainty avoidance and gender, age, and occupation?

8. Develop psychographic profiles of people of strong and weak uncertainty avoidance. Find pictures or photos to illustrate various types of life style of people from different cultures ( lifestyle, diet, medical history, education, workplace). Describe their lifestyles with the help of new vocabulary.