This Feelings unit from SuperEnglishESL.com helps beginner ESL learners explore emotions and expressions through engaging, structured lessons. With interactive storytelling, vocabulary-building activities, phonics, and real-world applications, students will learn to describe their feelings and understand the emotions of others.
These lessons are perfect for 1:1 online teaching, group ESL classes, and classroom instruction. ESL teachers will appreciate the low-prep, highly structured approach that ensures students can practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing while learning essential emotional vocabulary.
Each lesson builds upon the previous one, reinforcing vocabulary and grammar through interactive activities and discussions.
Students are introduced to basic emotions like happy, sad, excited, and bored through engaging discussions, interactive exercises, and real-life scenarios.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with emotions and expressions.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Feelings at the Park” – students explore different emotions in a park setting.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: bored, excited, happy, sad.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering “How does he/she feel?” using “He/She is…” and “He/She feels…”.
✔️ Phonics: The “all” sound (ball, fall, small).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing, tic-tac-toe, and discussion activities.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing personal emotions and discussing daily activities.
This lesson helps students express nervousness and frustration, reinforcing position words and phonics.
✔️ Warm-up: Discussing past, present, and future feelings.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “The School Play” – students read about nervous and excited characters.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: nervous, upset, crying.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Position words (next to, behind, in front of) and forming “Why is he/she …?” questions.
✔️ Phonics: The “wa” sound (wash, watch, wander).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Drawing and matching, role-playing school scenarios.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Expressing feelings about events like tests and performances.
Students learn to describe personalities, building confidence in talking about emotions.
✔️ Warm-up: Word chain game using emotions and adjectives.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Show and Tell” – students discuss feeling shy, silly, or excited when presenting in front of others.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: shy, silly, laughing.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Prepositions of place (between, behind, in front of) and describing people’s behavior.
✔️ Phonics: The “wa” and “all” sounds.
✔️ Interactive Elements: Acting out emotions, class discussions, and games.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing personal experiences of being shy or silly.
This lesson introduces neutral and physical states, teaching students how to describe temperature-related feelings.
✔️ Warm-up: Guess-the-word game.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Day at School” – students follow different emotions throughout a school day.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: normal, tired, warm, cold.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering “How does he/she feel?” and comparative descriptions.
✔️ Phonics: Rhyming exercises.
✔️ Interactive Elements: Temperature-based role-play, games, and class discussions.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing how they feel throughout the day in different environments.
A comprehensive review of vocabulary, grammar, and phonics from the unit.
✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words activity.
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1 level) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings.
✅ ESL teachers looking for structured, engaging, and low-prep materials.
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or group lessons in online or traditional classrooms.
📌 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Role-Playing Exercises
🔊 Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
💡 Encourage students to describe their own emotions every day.
💡 Use real-life scenarios and role-play exercises for deeper engagement.
💡 Incorporate fun activities like “Feelings Charades” to reinforce vocabulary.