Lesson 1 overview

Hello everyone and welcome back to our blog!!👋💘. Today we're going to explain lesson one of our learning situation.

In our first lesson we will explore emotions through different activities that combine language learning and technology. We will begin by watching a short video from Inside Out to introduce the topic and help us think about how emotions are shown in everyday life. Then, we will use an emotional board to recognize and classify feelings, followed by an interactive practice with games where we will use the verb to be to describe emotions in English. Finally, students will take part in an Internet search activity to discover more examples of emotions and how they are expressed, making the lesson creative, engaging, and connected to real digital resources.

Topic: Emotions & Feelings

Title: How do you feel?

Objectives and goals

Enumerate emotions → Introduce and practice emotion vocabulary.
Classify emotions → Sort basic vs. more nuanced emotions during vocabulary work.

Match emotions to facial expressions → Identify emotions from pictures during games.
Identify your own emotions → Say I am… during role-play or speaking prompts.

Identify others’ emotions → Say He/She is… when describing peers or characters.

Verbally express emotions → Use emotion sentences in pair dialogues.

Listen actively → Listen to partners during role-play activities.

Respond respectfully to emotions → React appropriately in emotional dialogues.

Reflect on attitudes → Short class discussion on feelings and empathy.

Use digital tools to identify emotions → Play digital games. 

Digital competence

In this lesson wi will work on the following areas of the digital competence:

• Information and digital literacy: ability to search, filter, evaluate, and manage information and data in digital environments. This includes the ability to store and organize information for later use.
• Communication and collaboration: skills to interact, communicate, and collaborate using digital technologies. This involves participating in society through digital services and managing one's digital identity.

During this lesson, students build their language skills by learning new vocabulary, practicing the verb to be, and making simple sentences. Through games and conversations, they also improve pronunciation and their listening and speaking in an active way. Social and emotional skills also will be strongly reinforced by reflection of the feelings of others and also of their own. It will also raise empathy. Creativity is encouraged when students draw, act, and express emotions in their own unique ways. Group feeling will be developed during the role play sessions and safe reflections. 

Lesson plan:

Activity	Description
Introduction to the topic (5 min) Watch video: “Inside Out”	Introducing the topic of emotions. Discuss what are the emotions the students saw in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkyKyVFnSs
Vocabulary Presentation (10 min) Emotional Board	Present an “Emotions Board” with faces and words. Read the emotions aloud together, ask students to repeat.
Reminder of grammar (10 min) Repetition of the “to be”	Teacher reminds to the students how to use the verb to be forms: I am, You are, He/She/It is.
Interactive Practice (10 min) Online Game	The game teaches how to use TO BE forms and describe emotions. https://wordwall.net/resource/17368336/english/emotions
Activity (15 minutes) Emotion Detectives Online	Teacher explains: “Now we will be emotion detectives. We will use the Internet to find information about emotions, but we must learn how to search safely and organize what we find.” In pairs, students use tablets to search for one image and one short sentence that show the emotion joy. They compare two results (useful vs. irrelevant) and decide which is better. Students upload their chosen result to a shared Padlet board under the category “JOY.” Teacher closes: “We learned how to search, choose, and organize information. This is called digital literacy.”

Materials: 

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkyKyVFnSs

https://wordwall.net/resource/17368336/english/emotions