SURPRISES & DISBELIEFS

Surprise or disbeliefs is :

• a feeling that we feel when we heard an amazing news which surprised and amazed us
• an expression that we show/say when we know/hear/see something that rather difficult to believe
• used to express something that we can’t or impossible.

Surprise is a brief emotional state experienced as the result of an unexpected significant event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral, pleasant, or unpleasant. If a person experiences a very powerful or long lasting surprise it may be considered shock.


Surprise is expressed in the face by the following features:

• Eyebrows that are raised so they become curved and high.
• Stretched skin below the eyebrows.
• Horizontal wrinkles across the forehead.
• Open eyelids: the upper lid is raised and the lower lid is drawn down, often exposing the white sclera above and below the iris.
• Dropped jaw so that the lips and teeth are parted, with no tension around the mouth.

To express surprises :

• Wow! What a surprise!
• That’s a surprise!
• (Well), that’s very surprising!
• Really?
• What?
• Are you serious? You must be joking!
• You’re kidding!
• Fancy that!
• I must say it surprises me.
• I find that hard to believe.

How To Responds Surprises :

• Yeah!
• It is.
• Yup!
• Sure.
• It’s true.
• I’m Serious.
• No. I’m not.
• Does it?
• It is, isn’t it?

Examples :
Puput : Whose motorcycle is that?
Maiia : It’s Redha’s
Puput : Are you kidding me?
Maiia : No, I’m not.
           I saw her riding that motorcycle this morning.
Puput : What a surprise!

Intan : How can you say that?
Ella   : Well, that’s the fact.

Disbeliefs is a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

To Express Disbelief

• I don’t believe it.
• It can’t be true.
• I can’t think of it.
• I don’t trust you.
• I don’t believe you.
• I can’t believe this!
• I didn’t know that.