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Emotions lesson
A1 level

Description

In this lesson, students define and relate 7 emotions with body expressions through mime exercises and the use of emojis to express their emotions. During the class you will begin by defining sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise, confusion and boredom through flashcards and worksheets. Then the students will play a mime game where they will be presented with a situation and what they will act is how they would feel in such a situation. Finally, they will create emojis that they will continue to use in other classes.

Materials

Abc Emoji palettes
Abc Flash cards
Abc Mimic game

Main Aims

  • Facilitate the practice of recognizing and expressing emotions in daily life.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Identifies own emotions and those of their peers.

Procedure

Lead-in (3-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Start class by asking "How do you feel?" allowing students to express themselves and analyzing whether or not they recognize their emotions through their words.

Test #1 (8-10 minutes) • To gauge students' prior knowledge of the target language

Propose to the children to play "the game of faces" where the teacher must say a phrase, such as "this is the face I make when my brother offers me a piece of pizza" and the children must put the face with which they would react, for example that one would be happy about it. Ask some students about why they react that way, the objective is to see if the student recognizes her own unconscious emotions or not.

Teach (15-20 minutes) • To clarify areas of the target language where students had difficulty in the first test stage

Present students with 7 flashcards of various emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, confusion and boredom. Explain, through different anecdotes, what each of these emotions are. Hand out a worksheet where they must identify what emotion they are talking about, either in their explanation or in the gestures that are presented in the images in order to reaffirm the previous point.

Test #2 (8-10 minutes) • Check students' use of the target language again and compare with the first test

Play "the mime game." Allow children to play it in small teams of 4 or 5 members. At the end of the game ask the students: What emotions did they identify? How were they able to discover what that emotion was? How did your classmates express themselves? Did they do the same as you?

Free practice (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Present the students with some palettes of emojis of the emotions seen previously. Ask everyone to create their own emoji palettes. Ask some closing questions, with the objective that the children use their emojis to answer, which some may be: How did you feel during the class? How was your weekend? If your granny gave you a cupcake as a gift, how would you take it?

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