Advanced 4 Lexis in context 6B

Subtances dependencies

• Damaging lives

• Being addicted to certain types of behavior

• Being dependent on a substance

• Not causing damage

Harmless

• Not causing damage

• Being addicted to certain types of behavior

• Damaging lives

• To feel nervous, especially about what might happen and not at all relaxed

Behavioral addictions

• Looking for treatment

• Being addicted to certain types of behavior

• Damaging lives

• To feel nervous, especially about what might happen and not at all relaxed

Detroying lives

• To feel nervous, especially about what might happen and not at all relaxed

• Looking for treatment

• To feel completely dominated by anxiety

• Damaging lives

I feel edgy and tense

• To make you feel extremely pleased and excited, as if you had taken a drug

• To feel completely dominated by anxiety

• To feel nervous, especially about what might happen and not at all relaxed

• Looking for treatment

Seeking treatment

• Looking for treatment

• Not causing damage

• Damaging lives

• Looking for treatment

She feels overwhelmingly anxious

• To feel nervous, especially about what might happen and not at all relaxed

• To make you feel extremely pleased and excited, as if you had taken a drug

• To be able to succeed in dealing with or controlling the problem

• To feel completely dominated by anxiety

Gave me an enormous high

• To feel completely dominated by anxiety

• Become addicted to something

• To make you feel extremely pleased and excited, as if you had taken a drug

• Being dependent on a substance

Overcome an addiction to work

• To feel completely dominated by anxiety

• To be able to succeed in dealing with or controlling the problem

• Being dependent on a substance

• Damaging lives

Get hooked on

• Become addicted to something

• Looking for treatment

• Behavior that is difficult to stop or control

• Being dependent on a substance