New lesson plan: Reading emotions

Mar Funes

Reading emotions - A1 level

Reading emotions
A1 level

Description

In this lesson students will identify phrases or words that trigger emotions in different texts. At the beginning of the lesson, students will return to the definitions of the 7 emotions studied in previous classes to identify them in small conversations. Then the students will be presented with two stories where they must identify the emotions of the characters, the reasons for each emotion and how they react to the event. At the end of the class, the students will analyze their own feelings through the characters in the stories and answer questions about alternative endings or changes in the story.

Materials

Two tales

Two tales

Main Aims

To provide scan reading practice using a text about emotions in the context of in the tales

Subsidiary Aims

To provide deduction reading practice using a text about emotions in the context of in the tales

Procedure (40-53 minutes)

Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Ask the children about a story they like. Briefly tell the story. Ask again: why do you think this situation occurred? What did the characters feel? Did this affect the story at all?

Pre-Reading (5-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Return to the emotions of the characters in the story that the students said, now specifying the motivations of each character. Explain to the students that we are going to read two stories and the objective is for them to deduce how the characters feel and how this affects the story.

While-Reading #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Introduce the story of "the princess and the pea". Alternate turns between students and teacher to read fragments of the story. Ask the children what they understood the story and what they think the characters felt. Discuss how the emotions of the characters in the story intervened in the events of the story.

While-Reading #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Read the story "The Enchanted Forest". Make a table of all the characters in the story. Ask the children what happened to them. Reflect on the behavior of the sorcerer who stole life from the forest.

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Ask students questions about what happened in the stories. Propose that they invent changes in the stories and explain how their emotions led them to this. Talk to students about the importance of regulating and expressing their emotions with the example of this story.