Feelings and facial expressions

1. How are you feeling today?
ASSIGNMENT 1. Communicative Arts and Crafts.
In this Arts and Crafts task students are going to learn about feelings and
emotions and how the different facial expressions communicate the way people
feel.
CONTEXT
This activity has been created for a class of 24 students of year 3.
CONTENTS
 Identifying facial expressions.
 Key vocabulary: feelings (happy, sad, scared, angry, sleepy, hungry, tired,
bored, surprised), actions (clap your hands, stamp your feet, say oh no!,
take a nap)
 Language structures:
- Zero conditional (If you are happy and you know it clap your hands).
- Can you make a __________face?
- I feel happy with… because… / I feel happy when… because… / I like /
love…
LANGUAGE & SKILLS
- Feelings vocabulary.
- Actions.
- TPR song.
- Practice receptive and productive oral skills.
LEARNING STANDARS
Est. EA. PL. 1.1.6. Dibuja la figura humana respetando las proporciones y expresando
acciones y movimientos sencillos.
Est. EA. PL. 2.2.1. Elabora obras bi y tridimensionales con diferentes materiales
planificando su proceso creativo, buscando la solución más adecuada a sus propósitos en
su producción final.
Est. EA. PL. 2.2.2. Utiliza técnicas plásticas sencillas para sus creaciones, tanto
individuales como en grupo, utilizando los materiales de manera adecuada, cuidando el
material y el espacio de uso.

2. ACTIVITIES
1. Students listen to the song “If you are happy” and they carry out the
different actions. Then, we talk about the different emotions that have
been named and other emotions they know. They can say them in Spanish
and the teacher translates and writes them on the blackboard.
2. In pairs, each student is going to have a paper with 6 circles and a piece
of plasticine. One of the students asks his/her partner to make a face
related to a feeling, for example: “Can you make an angry face?” The
student will try to copy that facial expression by making with plasticine
the different parts of the face and will place them in one of the circles.
Next, the student writes that emotion under the face. Both students
make 3 faces taking turns.
3. After having made the 3 faces with plasticine, students draw those same
facial expressions in the other 3 circles.
4. When they already know some of the most common feelings, students
create a collage with pictures of people, things, situations… which make
them feel happy.
5. When they finish the collage, they show it to the rest of the class and
tell them about what make them feel happy. They can use the structures:
- I feel happy with… because…
- I feel happy when… because…
- I like / love…