Word Power Emotions
东流中学 张郁
Teaching Aims:
1. Help students grasp words related to emotions.
2. Make students know how to express the emotions.
3. Get students to learn what happiness really means.
Teaching important and difficult points:
Make students know the noun form of the adjective words.
Make students to fill in the blanks and do an interview by using some emotional words.
Teaching Methods:
Discussion in pairs or in groups; task-based in-class activities; competition ; interview; writing; singing
Teaching Aids: A multimedia classroom; two pieces of music
Teaching Procedures:
StepⅠ Lead-in.
1.Make students know the teacher’s feeling: nervous but happy
2.Get students to answer the following questions:
How is your feeling/ emotion now ? Why?
StepⅡ Brainstorming
Show students some pictures and ask them to guess the feeling of each picture.
Step Ⅲ Consolidation
1.Task One: Form-Filling (Competition)
Ask students to fill in the form with correct noun forms of some adjective words.
2.Task Two: Blank-Filling (Competition)
Ask students to use some emotional words to fill in blanks
3.Task Three: Interview (Pair Work)
Ask students to give Flora a short interview about the speech competition.
Step Ⅳ Vocabulary Extension (Group Work)
Ask students to list more words related to emotions: happiness, sadness, anxiety, anger, others
Step V Writing (Individual Work)
Ask students to write their happiness with one sentence.
Step VI Singing
Ask students to sing the song- if you are emotional -to review the words they had learnt.
Step VII Homework
1. Give the words related to emotions correct noun forms
2. Ask students to write an e-mail to express their emotions about the class.
