B2 · 5 minutes · Psychology

Seeing faces in things

A short talk about why we sometimes see faces where there are none.

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What you’ll practise

Follow an explanation of a common experience.

Words to know

socket: A place in a wall where you connect electrical equipment.
spot: To notice or see something.
pareidolia: Seeing faces or shapes in random patterns.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 98% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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