Could be.
I learned to fly in 2011, and at that time, "slow flight" was considered to be flying around with the stall horn going off continuously. You can do quite a lot like that without stalling the airplane, even gentle to moderate level turns. Nearly six years and over 500 hours, I have yet to unintentionally stall an airplane, though I go out for slow flight (WITH the stall horn sounding) at least a few times per year.
I haven't met any instructors (yet) who aren't going to teach both what I'll now dub "minimum controllable airspeed" (MCA) flight with the stall horn blaring and the airplane at the point where any reduction in power or increase in pitch will result in a stall, as well as the "new" ACS slow flight standards.
Just because you won't need the former for a checkride doesn't mean it won't be taught. It MUST be. It'll just be called something other than "slow flight" so as not to be accidentally misunderstood by ACS-graded candidates.
Even if your examiner doesn't require you to demonstrate it on a checkride, you'll still have to demonstrate it for me...
You must know what the aircraft feels like and acts like, flying that slow. You must also learn that all it takes at that point is more back pressure and being uncoordinated (yaw) and it's going to try to spin, and that you must use rudder pressure and NO aileron input, to stop it.
As far as intro to stalls goes, INTRO to stalls need not be violent or abrupt in any way at all, and introducing them roughly to a timid or frightened student who's afraid of the WORD "stall" but who's never SEEN one, is a good way to make them more scared instead of less scared. All you have to do is set up an idle power glide and then pitch to attempt to hold altitude.* It'll happen all nice and smooth and recovery is just a release of back pressure in that setup.
* In the multiengine at this altitude we do have the problem that stall may be above Vmc in certain conditions so we have to watch out for the setup in power on conditions or for any yaw in power off conditions -- at the first sign of buffet, directional control loss, or stall horn, we HAVE to recover it for safety -- but that's a different topic altogether from where the person with the fear of stalls in a single is at in training.
You can take the single all the way past the buffet to a real break and just keep it wings level with rudder and demo just how benign a stall can be for someone worried about it, and save the slightly more abrupt power on stuff (and need for "more right rudder! The minute by minute mantra of every instructor... LOL!) for the next flight or later in the "intro to stalls" flight, well after the timid person has seen a few stalls and realizes their mental image of what a "stall" is, doesn't match the relatively gentle reality.
Media coverage of crashes, other more experienced pilots, all sorts of folks inadvertently make the word "stall" sound scary. It doesn't have to be at all. Introducing them like they're some sort of roller coaster ride to someone timid/scared of them, just shows a lack of finesse and respect for the student, and lack of thoughtfulness on the part of the instructor.
That said, if the OP hasn't told their instructor that they're nervous about it, the instructor can't guess that. Make sure you're sharing this fear with them. They're not going to be able to read your mind.