Emotions

Ask your students to come up with as many adjectives to describe emotions as they can in two minutes. 

Elicit the adjectives and write them on the board. 

(In weaker groups you may use extra material to reinforce vocabulary. For instance, this video on emotions)

Tell your students they are going to watch a video in which they will see some emotions expressed. As they watch they should note down the emotions they think are being expressed. 

Show the video without sound and pause at 01:15.

  

Barbican – Classical Music Season from Art&Graft on Vimeo.

 

Pair students and ask them to compare the adjectives they noted down.

Ask:

• what emotions do you think the people were feeling) Write them on the board. 
• what was happening when the people were feeling these emotions?
  

Now show the video with sound and ask them:

• Why are they feeling these emotions? 

Students will almost certainly answer that the people are listening to classical music. Explain to them that the video is an advertisement for the classical music season at the Barbicanarts centre in London. 

 

Brainstorm different types of music and write them on the board. 

Dictate or write up the following questions:

• What kind of music do you like listening to?
• Where do you listen to music?
• What emotions do you feel when you listen to your favourite music?
• Is there any type of music you listen to when you feel blue/happy/anxious?

 

Get students to compare their questions and then elicit the correct ones. 

Ask the learners to discuss the questions in pairs. 

Hold a plenary session based on the questions. 

 

Divide the class into groups of three or four. Show the students these quotations from musicians about music and ask them to discuss them and choose their favourite quotation.

 

 

Lesson plan based on www.film-english.com