Gut Feeling

B1 – Intermediate

Imagine your boss making an important decision for the company based on their intuition. This would be met with doubts since important decisions should be carefully thought of, right?

Let’s listen to the audio and find out more about gut feelings.

http://www.idioms4you.com/complete-idioms/gut-feeling.html

Discussion Questions:

  1. What is a gut feeling?
  2. Have you ever had one before? Did you react based on it?
  3. Talk about a gut feel you had and did it come true or not?
  4. Do you believe that gut feelings help us avoid danger or potential failure?
  5. What are the things you consider before making major decisions?
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2 replies on “Gut Feeling”

A gut feeling is when you feel something about a situation.
I have lots of gut feelings with my family and overall with my children when they are lying, I usually have a gut feeling.
I was working in a construction company. We were constructing a huge building and there were a big team. A teammate never did his work on time and correctly, and always had excuses. I felt that he lied but I was not able to prove. He was fired months later because he was working for another company. My gut feeling came true.
Sometimes gut feelings had helped me when I was hiking in difficult weather conditions.
Firstly I analyze in a rational way the pros and cons. After I talk to people over the issue and then I make the decision. At this moment, I hear my gut feeling.

You gave it your all in answering the questions for this lesson. Good job. It was interesting to know your experience having gut feeling.

Please see the following expressions and how you can write them well:

We were constructing a huge building and there were a big team.
I was part of a big team that was constructing a huge building.

I felt that he lied but I was not able to prove.
I felt that he was lying but I was not able to prove it/anything.

My gut feeling came true.
My gut feeling was true.

Keep doing a good job.

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