Multiple Choice Cloze 10.00 AM UK TIME TUESDAY 3rd MARCH - Livestream - C1 and C2

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THURSDAY 5th MARCH AT 3.30 PM
AND FRIDAY 6th MARCH AT 1 PM UK TIME


How I changed my personality in six weeks
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

This time, I adopted a friendly posture and found (discussing, engaging, babbling, expressing) with people surprisingly natural.

At a yoga class near the end of my six weeks of experimentation, I found myself doing something almost unheard of: I (voluntarily, impromptu, spontaneously, ad lib) initiated small talk with the person one mat over.

I also began meditating and writing a gratitude (journal, ledger, log, bulletin, report) nearly every day.

The meditation turned out to be revelatory. At first it was near impossible to silence the (row, din, clash, drum, stir, clank) of thoughts.

As well as the classic intrusions about what I needed to do that day, there was also a relentless (mousy, doggy, rabbity, horsey, sheepish) commentary on what I was experiencing moment-to-moment while attempting to meditate.

The incontinent (magpie, squealer, babblerer, busybody) at the steering wheel of my mind seemed to fear being asked to step out of the vehicle for a while – scared, perhaps, that it wouldn't be allowed to return.

But after my partner suggested I visualise it not as leaving the vehicle but simply (clipping, quitting, ceasing, ending, breaking, cutting) the engine, I stopped fearing the silence.

I also began to see the (merit, excellence, credit, profit) of encouraging its spread to parts of my life that were otherwise characterised by a frenzy of nervous chatter.

To improve neuroticism, "you target people's (devotion, compliance, mind, willingness) to experience emotions", says Shannon Sauer-Zavala, associate professor in psychology.

She says that neurotics chronically avoid emotions, as well as (lambasting, attacking, lecturing, pummelling, trouncing) themselves for feeling the way they do.

Sauer-Zavala is working on an (captivating, absorbing, gripping, enthralling, intriguing) approach to treating mental health conditions through personality-targeted interventions.

"If we (focus, prey, take aim, target) neuroticism instead of general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, panic disorder, eating disorders etc, it's just more efficient," she says.

So far, results indicate the approach is (efficient, proficient, adept, effective).