How do you show your feelings?

TOPIC: How do you show your feelings?

Language focus: First and second conditionals

Vocabulary: Feelings

Optional materials: photos presenting people of different ages, possibly showing different physical feelings and emotions

Warm-up

• On the board stick some photos presenting people of different ages, possibly showing different physical feelings and emotions. Elicit what emotions students think these people show.

Vocabulary and pronunciation

Feelings

1
• Students work in pairs and decide which adjectives describe physical feelings and which emotions.
• Check the answers with the class

Key: physical feelings: cold, hot, hungry, ill, thirsty, warm, well
emotions: angry, embarrassed, guilty, happy, miserable, sad, sorry, stupid, surprised,
tired, upset.
2
• Ask some students What makes you (angry)? Write the what makes you + adjective on the board.
• Tell students to ask and answer the questions in pairs.
• Walk around, monitoring their work and helping where necessary.

3
• Tell students to work in pairs and decide what nouns the adjectives in Activity 1 come from and which adjectives have no matches. Check the answers with the class.

Key:
angry – anger cold – cold
embarrassed – embarrassment guilty – guilt
hot – heat hungry- hunger
ill – illness miserable – misery
sad – sadness stupid – stupidity
surprised – surprise thirsty- thirst
warm – warmth
No matches: sorry, upset, well

Reading and listening
Presentation
4
• Ask students what is happening in the photos. Let them make guesses what is going on in the conversation.

5
• Students individually read parts of the conversation. They put them in the correct order and check their answers in pairs.
• Walk around, helping with vocabulary.

6
• Play the conversation twice. Students listen and check their answers.

7
• While students are working on Activity 7 write the five expressions on the board. Students find them in the text of the conversation. Help them to guess the right answers from the context. Try to use the phrases at least once throughout the class to consolidate the meaning.
Key: 1a, 2a, 3b, 4b, 5b.

Grammar

First and second conditionals

8
• On the board write the two example sentences. Underline the verbs and elicit what the underlined tenses are.
• Draw students’ attention to the L!ve hint on the next page.

9
• Tell students to complete the two rules individually. Check the answers with the class.

Key : 1. first 2. second

10
• Ask the class the two questions in 11. if students are not sure, point to some examples.
• Ask students to find more examples of conditional ...