Emotions are part of our lives. Everytime we are feeling emotions by the environment influences or rather by our own and every feeling is shown by our facial expressions. It is really important to know how those expressions are called if we are students of English as a second language.
There are a lot of emotions that can be shown and can be recognize easily but some students can’t talk about them because they don’t know their meaning or their English name.
For those students we are going to show some strategies to follow if you are interested in teaching English.
These strategies are shown by steps below
GROUP ACTIVITIES
1) Make a list of feelings in Spanish and English on the blackboard and match them with a help of your students. Then, ask them what they think about those feelings?
Have each child to write on the blackboard and create a brainstorm. Put all the ideas on the board and tell everybody write on their noteboks the ones that work the best for them personally. As a warm up, have the group think of synonyms for each of the feelings in this list.
The purpose of this activity is to help kids understand that there are things they can do to change the way they are feeling.
2) Have the group make a list of "helpers" who are available to kids who might be afraid or worried. Ask the kids to describe instances when they've used these helpers.
3. Design a poster that illustrates the feelings and helps children to recognize them.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
1. Describe in as much detail as you can what it is like to cry, what it is like to laugh.
2. Command every child write a letter to an imaginary friend telling about a time they really felt good the same for a time they really felt bad about something.
If your students are teenager
3. If your students are teenagers. Set tasks to describe a time they had a hard time coping with the way they felt about something. What made it hard? What did they do about it? Is there something they could have done that would have made it easier?
4. Select one of the feelings from item #1 (or any other feeling that comes to mind), and tell them to think of an animal or a person that reminds them of that feeling. What is it about that animal that reminds them of that feeling? Then they’ll write a poem about that animal o person.
5. They will describe how a person looks and acts like when he or she is feeling:
a) proud
b) scared
c) angry
d) embarrassed
e) happy
f) sad
6. You encourage them to make a list of people they trust enough to discuss their feelings with.
HOME ASSIGNMENTS
If you are allowed or if it’s possible to you, enlist the involvement of parents, make copies of the "For Parents" block and send them home with the children. Tell the children to discuss a video with their parents, and to perform the following activities. (It is up to you or your possibilities)
1. With help from their relatives they’ll have to make a list of their "firsts," with dates (first walked, first tooth, first day/night away from home etc.) they have to ask them to describe how they felt on each of these occasions. Ask how they felt on each of these occasions. Write these feelings next to each "first" on their list.
2. Tell them to ask an adult in their families what things scare him or her. These can be added to a "Things That Scare Adults" chart in class.
3. Tell your students to ask their relatives what they do to relax when they are feeling angry. They’ll ask them what they do to help themselves when they are angry.
Perhaps they could give written or oral reports or discuss their experiences in small groups.
After you had shown your students some vocabulary about feelings and emotions, and they had brought all their assignments to the classroom, you can use many strategies to reevaluate them at all.
Some of the useful strategies to make a review before a test are some games like scramble, crossword, flashcards, word bank, wordsearch and so on...
These cards are a great way to review human emotions as well as causes. There is a lot of good vocabulary work to be contained in the cards if you want.
This game plays like the game fish, but with a catch: First they have to ask if the other student has that emotion and then they ask about the reason. They have to match both reason and emotion to get the point. When asking about emotion, they can choose from any of the possible synonym for the emotion.
Wordsearch are really useful in learning of a foreign language because they help to remind word spelling and to keep the words in mind
The object of the game is to find and mark all of the words hidden in the grid
Posted by:
Francisco Cortez
Kenya Rodriguez
