Beat the Sunday Scaries

Short overview of the lesson:

• Compare Friday and Sunday evenings, saying which activities they would rather do on each and why.
• Predict the meaning of "The Sunday Scaries" and discuss a short text about it with a partner.
• Understand a short video and compare the speaker's feelings with their own.
• Identify feeling words in social-media comments and guess their meaning from context.
• Match ten feeling words to their definitions and use them correctly in sentences.
• Complete gapped sentences with the correct feeling word from a first-letter clue.
• Respond to a range of "Sunday situations", describing how they would feel and cope.
• Understand a second video and note how different generations deal with the Sunday Scaries.
• Evaluate practical strategies and choose the ones that would work best for them.
• Give advice to different characters using feeling words and useful phrases.
• Consolidate the target vocabulary through gap-fill and personalised sentence tasks.
• Create their own ideal Sunday-evening routine and "Sunday Scaries Survival Kit".
• Revise all the target words independently using a ready-made Quizlet set.