Big News, Big Feelings - Idioms

Short overview of the lesson:

• Discuss how different messages and pieces of news can affect our emotions.
• Rank situations from least to most emotionally intense.
• Discover the meaning of emotion idioms through short dialogues.
• Match the idioms to their definitions.
• Practise using the idioms accurately in rewriting and correction tasks.
• Respond to ambiguous situations and explain which idiom fits best.
• Compare how different personality types might react to the same news.
• Give deliberately wrong reactions and correct each other’s choices.
• Write captions for photos using suitable idioms.
• Complete a written homework task describing emotions before, during and after an important event.