Feelings and Emotions
ESL Lesson PlansFeelings and Emotions

Feelings and Emotions

This feelings and emotions lesson plan focuses on teaching emotions to adult learners at the A2 level. The structured lesson includes reading quotes, discussing personal feelings, and analyzing a blog post to enhance reading and speaking skills. Students will engage in exercises that promote understanding of emotions, using targeted vocabulary effectively.

Skills

  • Can understand a simple personal letter, e-mail or post in which the person writing is talking about familiar subjects
  • Can create diary entries, using basic, concrete vocabulary and simple phrases and sentences
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1

Read these quotes. In pairs, choose one that you agree with the most.

Emotions can get in the way of your thinking.
- Marilyn Monroe
Feelings and emotions are just visitors. Let them come and go.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Emotions are the colors of the heart.
- Meryl Streep
Your answer:
2

Discuss these questions in pairs. Share your answers.

3

Read Alex's blog post. How did she feel yesterday? Find the words she used to describe her emotions.

4

Read the text again. Mark each statement as True or False.

5

Read about the problems people have and how they feel about them. What would you recommend they do to feel better?

6

Write your own post about what happened yesterday and how you felt. Share your notes with the group. Use at least 3 words from the Target Vocabulary list.

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