How to Calm an Angry Person Down

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How To Calm an Angry Person Down
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Hi, I’m Brenda F. Dixon, the owner of LifeHelpNow and I am here with Expert Village.
And today we are talking about how to overcome anger. I’ve given you some definitions to give you a
clearer understanding of it. I’ve told you that it pushes people away and it also brings people closer to
you because they feel like they wanna help.
Um, one of the things that I have noticed in my practice with working with people with anger is that if
you are dealing with someone, if you give a very gentle answer when someone is in your face talking,
speaking anger, whether it’s rage or whether it’s just an average everyday anger, if you will speak very
gently to them, they just actually begin to calm down right in front of you.
So one aspect of overcoming anger is to speak gently, and it just begins to calm the room down, calms the
person down and they begin to feel this, um, uh, composure that’s in the room. Now, no one has
addressed what has caused the anger, nobody’s even gotten into that, they’re just talking about how to ..,
I’m just talking about how to overcome it by being very gentle with the other person.
Vocabulary
01. To overcome anger
02. To push people away
03. To bring people closer together
04. They wanna help
05. I have noticed
06. If you are dealing with someone
07. A gentle answer
08. Whether it’s rage
09. Whether it’s just an average everyday anger
10. They just actually begin to calm down
11. To calm the room down
12. To feel this composure
13. To address what caused the anger
14. Nobody’s even gotten into that
15. By being very gentle ( preposition + gerund!)
surmonter la colère
éloigner les gens
rapprocher les gens les un aux autres
= they want to help
j’ai remarqué
si vous avez affaire avec quelqu’un
une réponse à voix douce
que ce soit une rage folle
que ce soit une colère typique de tous les jours
ils commencent vraiment à se calmer
calmer, réduire la tension dans la pièce
sentir ce calme
aborder ce qui a provoqué la colère
personne n’a même pas abordé cela
en étant/restant très calme