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title: "Language in Context | #2 - 'Stepping Out of your Comfort Zone'"
description: "Ecco alcuni consigli utili per espressioni in inglese da usare in situazioni specifiche. Il tema di questo numero #2 è: Uscire dalla propria comfort zone."
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# [Language in Context | #2 - 'Stepping Out of your Comfort Zone'](https://www.speakinitaly.com/home/speakforyourself/language-in-context-n2)

 Scritto da [Faye Murton](https://www.speakinitaly.com/home/speakforyourself/author/faye-murton) | 23/02/18, 10:14

Every edition, we want to provide you with the opportunity to discover new vocabulary or grammar and to see how it is used in real contexts.

 

**VOCABULARY**

This edition we have identified topic-related language from [**6 Reasons To Step Outside Your Comfort Zone**](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/entry/stepping-outside-your-comfort-zone_n_5872638) from *The Huffington Post.*

Phrases about ***Staying in your Comfort Zone:***

- Humans are **creatures of comfort. **
- **We're wired to seek out comfort.**
- In our comfort zone, there is a **sense of familiarity**, security and certainty. 
- Psychologically, our comfort zone is **the place we're** **most at home.**
- There's nothing wrong with being in your comfort zone, unless you get too comfortable and start **holding yourself back**

Phrases about ***Stepping Out of your Comfort Zone:***

- We’re **opening ourselves up** to the possibility of stress and anxiety.
- A little bit of healthy stress can actually act as **a catalyst for growth**
- [Leaving] can create the conditions for **optimal performance**. 
- When we challenge ourselves, we tend to **rise to the occasion.**
- Those who are **willing to take risks**… will **reap**** the biggest rewards.**

 

**GRAMMAR**

In this edition of *Speak for Yourself,* the **Grammar in Context** is taken from **[Betty Bromage’s experience](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/19/experience-record-breaking-wing-walker)** as a wing-walker, a hobby which she started on her 87th birthday. 

Betty describes her interest in wing walking, saying:

***     "When I was young, ******I never imagined I’d do****** something as daring as this."***

*     "Quando ero giovane non avrei mai immaginato di fare una cosa così rischiosa".*

***     "I’ve got two young grandsons. When ******I said I was going to do ******a wing walk, one of them                       said: ******“Well, if that’s what you really want to do.”***

*     "**Ho due nipoti. Quando ho detto loro che avrei fatto un volo acrobatico, uno di loro mi ha detto:  "Ok, se è                proprio quello che vuoi fare...****".***

These examples demonstrate an area of grammar named:  **The Future in the Past**

**The Future in the Past**

**Meaning:**

When talking about the past, we sometimes want to mention an intention or plan in the future as seen from that moment.

     **“*When I was at university, I decided ******I was going to travel the world****** for a year after                                 graduation*****”**

      "*Quando ero all'università decisi che, dopo la laurea, avrei girato il mondo per un anno."*

 

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**Form:**

There are different ways to form the Future in the Past. Most of the time we turn future structures (for example ***will*** or ***to be going to***) into past structures (***would*** or ***was/were going to***):

**1.** **Would** (in this case, the past of *will*)

      "**I never imagined ****I would do**** something as daring as wing walking".**

**      **Past form of: “*I don’t imagine ****I will do ****something as daring as wing walking”.*

 

**2. Was/Were going to** (the past of *to be going to)*.

**      "*****When I said ******I was going to do ******a wing walk…".***

***      ***Past form of: “***I am going to ****do a wing walk”.*

 

**Examples from Speak**

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