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Cover of the worksheet pack A sample worksheet: Your anxiety trigger map, from Chapter 1

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Two planning sheets, then every Try this exercise, chapter by chapter. ★ marks the core activity.

Part One · Foundations

1 · Why English makes you anxious

  • Catch your alarm early
  • The physiological sigh
  • The two-second pause
  • ★ Your anxiety trigger map
  • The prediction log
  • 5-4-3-2-1 grounding
  • Your day-one recording

2 · Rewriting your language learning story

  • ★ Your English learning timeline
  • Fact or interpretation?
  • Three beliefs on trial
  • Your critic's greatest hits
  • A conversation with self-forgiveness
  • Write your new story

3 · Mistakes are data, not disasters

  • Your relationship with mistakes
  • Draw your own building
  • ★ The error collection
  • The five-to-five test
  • Deliberate imperfection
  • Your profile, and your own measure of success

4 · Your personalised confidence plan

  • Rate your three conditions
  • Move one thing into the sweet spot
  • ★ Your practice inventory
  • Three goals, three if–then plans
  • The four-week tracker

Part Two · Practice strategies

5 · Speaking with fellow learners

  • ★ Find five possible practice partners
  • The comparison log
  • Check the liking gap
  • Agree your feedback rules
  • Your first peer session

6 · The graduated exposure method

  • Is this method right for your situation?
  • Count the cost of avoiding
  • ★ Build your own ladder
  • The prediction sheet
  • Drop one crutch
  • Your first three rungs

7 · Native speakers: low stakes

  • What were they really thinking about?
  • ★ Your low-stakes inventory
  • Five micro-conversations
  • Situation-to-phrase flashcards
  • Interrupt one avoidance habit

8 · Native speakers: high stakes

  • What's your preparation style?
  • Your "stop" list
  • ★ Your high-stakes plan
  • Remind yourself what they can see
  • Your last-hour routine
  • The recorded mock

9 · Written communication confidence

  • ★ Your writing audit
  • The five-minute email
  • Your own good-enough rules
  • Build your phrase bank and three templates
  • The imperfect sending challenge

Part Three · Long-term growth

10 · When anxiety returns

  • Draw your own line
  • Setback or regression?
  • Your warning-sign check
  • Your emergency kit
  • ★ Write your setback card

11 · Building your english learning ecosystem

  • ★ Your weekly English audit
  • Balance your ecosystem
  • Your interest map
  • Build your support system
  • Plan your next three months

12 · Celebrating your growth

  • ★ Your before-and-after inventory
  • Your achievement list, and a daily victory log
  • Then and now
  • Intentions and a letter

Part Four · Going further

13 · Accent, identity and sounding like yourself

  • ★ The repeat log
  • Stress first
  • Bring yourself into English
  • Have your answers ready
  • The voice diary

14 · Phone and video calls

  • Your call audit
  • ★ The call card
  • Spell it, say it back
  • Your video-call set-up
  • Your call ladder, and a follow-up email

15 · Small talk, humour and british culture

  • ★ Ping-pong practice
  • Build your own decoder, and check when unsure
  • Two lines and a laugh
  • Listen for three, use one
  • In, one question, out

16 · When you can't understand them

  • Your listening triggers
  • Predict, then listen for keywords
  • Accent of the week
  • Your group survival phrases
  • ★ Your listening ladder

17 · Speaking tests and interviews

  • Worst, likely, and plan B
  • Mark yourself fairly
  • ★ The timed mock
  • Test-safe phrases
  • Your countdown and waiting-room routine

18 · Helping someone else speak

  • Who comes to mind?
  • ★ The safer-meeting checklist
  • Practise the recast
  • Say it plainly
  • One person, one action

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