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Show the Emotion

Overview

Students practise showing different emotions clearly.

Learning Objective
Students express emotions through voice and body language.

Resources needed

  • None

Lesson stages

0 / 9 done
  1. 1 Explain that actors show emotions using their face, body, and voice.
  2. 2 Model one emotion and ask students to guess it.
  3. 3 Ask students to copy the emotion together.
  4. 4 Call out different emotions and ask students to act them.
  5. 5 Encourage students to exaggerate expressions to make them clear.
  6. 6 Invite individual students to perform an emotion.
  7. 7 Ask the class to guess the emotion.
  8. 8 Discuss what helped make the emotion clear.
  9. 9 Finish by reviewing key emotion words.

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Variations

  • Add short sentences.
  • Pair acting.
  • Emotion stories.
More information

Teach: happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared.

Use simple emotions.

Can students show emotions clearly?

No materials needed.

Students use voice only, not body.

Emotion work builds expressive communication.

Activity details
Secondary Easy 15 minutes no prep Whole Class Indoor & Outdoor
Topics
Emotions Expression