The lesson plan involves teaching 3rd grade students English words for basic emotions through a variety of activities integrating communication, music, art, and crafts. Students will identify emotions in drawings and scenarios, discuss situations that elicit different feelings, arrange scrambled words into emotion-expressing sentences, and attach face parts to cardboard faces to demonstrate emotions suggested by music. The lesson aims to help students express feelings, ideas, and perspectives using words, visuals, music and body language while recognizing that personal reactions vary.

1. LESSON PLAN
GRADE: the 3rd
TEACHERS: Florentina Maxim, Iulia Ignat – teacher of visual arts; illustrations made by
Iulia Ignat and Adriana Braileanu, teachers of visual arts; songs composed by Marian Cristian
Duca, piano teacher
THEME: Feelings
Crosscurricular activity involving communication in mother tongue (Romanian) and in
a foreign language (English), music, arts and crafts
COMPETENCES:
- Identifying and assigning the English words to basic emotions and facial expressions
- Expressing feelings/emotions, ideas, thoughts, points of view by various means (words,
visual elements, music, body movements)
- Identifying the significance of simple artistic messages within familiar contexts
TYPE OF LESSON: Combined lesson
TYPES OF INTERACTION: teacher – student, student - student
TEACHING AIDS: blackboard/ whiteboard, television, handouts, drawings and cardboard
models depicting emotions, notes with scrambled words, songs about emotions, water colours,
brushes,drawingpapers
TIME: 50 minutes
WARMER
The students are asked to choose from a list of various words those which refer to emotional
states (annex 1).
CHECKING OF PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
The teacher shows some drawings to the students, asking them to recognize the emotions
depicted by each drawing. (annex 2)
FORMULATION OF THE SUBJECT
Students will be informed that during this lesson they will learn some more English words to
express emotional states and human reactions, will act out and express basic emotions by
using cardboard models.
COMMUNICATION OF KNOWLEDGE
Activity 1 – aim: to encourage students’ creative thinking
Group brainstorming
Students are asked to name as many reasons for feeling happy/ angry/ sad/ scared/ surprised/
disgusted as possible.
Conclusion: Not everybody feels/ acts the same in certain situations, which is the proof that
we are very different.
Activity 2 – aims: to promote discussion about related emotions; to provide practice within
contextualized frameworks (reading, writing)
Students are asked to read the given sentences and to match them with the right illustration
(annex 3). By means of a guided conversation, students will be challenged to express personal
opinion on some of the situations presented in the given sentences and to mime the
corresponding emotions. (e.g.: What would you like to get on your 10th anniversary? Do you
have a pet? What feelings do you have for your pet? What natural phenomenon would you

2. like to see? What natural phenomenon would scare you? What would you do if you were
Mike? What scares you the most? What disgusts you the most? etc.)
Activity 3 – aims: to provide practice within contextualized frameworks (reading, writing)
Group work
The students will form groups of 4. They’ll have to arrange the given words so as to form
sentences. Using the cardboard models, they will represent the emotion depicted by the
sentence. (annex 4, 5 – photos of the cardboard models)
Activity 4
The teacher will revise with the students vocabulary related to face parts (mouth, lips, nose,
cheek, eyelid, and eyebrow) with the help of cardboard faces with detachable face parts made
in the previous lesson with the teacher of visual arts. The students will then work in groups:
they will attach the right face parts on their cardboard faces while the teacher will play
different musical parts suggesting different emotions.
FEED BACK AND EVALUATION
The teacher evaluates the students’ performance in class, laying emphasis on the most
interesting points of view and the most powerful arguments.