Processing Our Emotions

In this C2 ESL lesson, students explore vocabulary for naming and regulating emotions, with idiomatic and figurative language from psychology and everyday speech.

Warm-up:

Students answer a few questions about different types of feelings and emotions. 

Video:

Students watch a video titled “How to Process Your Emotions.” After watching the video, they match sentence beginnings with correct endings based on the video.

Exercises:

The students choose the best word to complete a sentence. Next, the learners match adjectives with their meanings. In the third exercise, they complete a text with words from the box. Next, the students match words to create collocations or phrases used to talk about feelings. In the fifth exercise, the learners match phrases with their informal equivalents. In the following exercise, they match sentence halves to create quotes about emotions. In the seventh exercise, the students choose the closest synonym for each word. Finally, the learners sort feelings on a chart.

Discussion:

The students discuss the best approach to handling emotions.