Word power: Emotions课堂实录【3】

Unit2 What is happiness to you? Word power Teaching aims: 1.Help the students to build up vocabulary about emotions. 2.Enable the students to use the vocabulary to express their feelings or emotions. 3.Enable them to make a list of words about emotions.

Step1.

Listen to a song and use a word to describe your feeling. After listening to the song , please use an adjective to express your own feeling. Emotions are different kinds of strong human feelings. Happiness is just one of the many emotions. Learning words related to emotions can help us express exactly how you feel.

Step2.Enjoy some pictures and use some words to describe the emotions. Happy-happiness,

sad-sadness,

angry-anger,

shy-shyness,

shocked-shock,

depressed-depression, Fearful-fear,

excited-excitement,

regretful-regret.

Step3.Learn the following nouns to describe the emotions and write down their adjective forms. A

B Nouns

adjectives

adjectives

Nouns Concern

concerned

anxious

anxiety Joy

joyful

content

contentment Delight

delighted

sorrowful

sorrow Regret

regretful

frightened

fright Shock

shocked

sad

sadness Fear

fearful

worried

worry Scare

scared

pleased

pleasure

Step4.Words extension 1.Words describing happiness: Adjective forms: joyful, happy, delighted, pleased, content, satisfied, excited Noun forms:

2.

Words describing anger: Noun forms: anger,

annoyance Adjective forms:

3.

Words describing sadness: Adjective forms:

sad, depressed, sorrowful, frustrated

Noun forms:

4.

Words describing fear: Adjective forms:

fearful,

scared,

frightened Noun forms:

Step5.Turn to page 22 and finish PartA Some of your classmates are talking about their feelings. Help them choose the correct form of the word to complete the sentences. 1. She was very anger / angry. when she learnt that her son had lied, but she tried to control her anger/angry. 2. I was contentment / content after the match. I knew I had tried my hardest, and a feeling of contentment / content came over me. 3. Children are curiosity/curious about almost everything around them. They have a special curiosity/curious about animals 4. I was so fright / frightened during the horror film! I am still recovering from the fright / frightened. 5. I know that many people are concern / concerned about me. I have received letters from so many people, all expressing their concern / concerned. 6. It was with great sadness/sad that they learnt of the man’s death. Everyone felt sadness/sad at the news.

Step6.Turn to page 23 and finish PartB Flora entered a speech competition. Read her diary entry and help her fill in the correct words to describe her feelings. •

When I first heard about the speech competition, I was full of ______________, I knew I wanted to have a try and I was eager to win. •

I spent many hours practicing my speech and trying to improve it. My friends all said I had a lot of courage. They said they would be very _____________ if they had to speak in public. After the competition was over, I felt I had done a good job. When I found out I was not the winner, I was filled with ______________ Even after all my hard work, someone else did a better job than I did! I cried, and couldn’t feel _______ about anything. My parents were very _______________ about me. They felt I was too ________to win, and not paying enough attention to my personal performance.

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They were right. I now realize that the boy who won made a better speech, but I did the best I could. I am _________ with second place, because I know that I tried my hardest, and that is more important than winning.

Step7.Turn to page 23and finish PartC 1.The whole team were over the moon at winning the match.

2.He is extremely irritable(易怒的)—he flies off the handle at the slightest thing.

3. She’s a bit down in the dumps because she’s got to take her exams again.

4. A: Was Helen pleased about getting the job?

B: Pleased? More than that. She was on cloud nine.

5. Finding his son cheating him, he was hot under the collar.

6. Feeling blue? Don’t you know who to talk to? Phone Depression Hotline, 24 hours a day.

Step8.Act and guess the words

Homework: 1.

Revise the words learned today 2.

Preview the following period.