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Adjectives of Feelings - B1 Antonyms
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Expressing one's emotions accurately is a fundamental language skill. This activity sheet helps your students better understand and define feelings by exploring their opposites. Through a simple matching game, they build a mind map of emotion vocabulary, allowing them to express themselves more subtly and understand others better. This is a perfect tool for approaching the topic of emotions in a structured and effective way.
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Guia Pedagógico
Resource Objective & Content
The objective is to consolidate and broaden students' vocabulary for describing feelings and emotions by identifying and matching antonymous (opposite) adjectives.
The document is an exercise titled "Antonyms Game" on the theme "Adjectives of Feelings". Students must connect eight pairs of words with opposite meanings. The vocabulary covers a wide spectrum of emotions: joy (happy/sad, excited/bored, pleased/annoyed), serenity (confident/anxious, relaxed/stressed), courage (brave/afraid), and character (kind/cruel, honest/dishonest). This activity helps students better understand emotions by thinking about them in contrasting pairs.
Suggested Procedure
Before the Activity (~5 min): THE EMOTICON BAROMETER
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Project or draw a few emoticons on the board (e.g.: 😊, 😠, 😥, 😨). Ask students to give as many English adjectives as possible to describe each emotion.
During the Activity (~5-10 min): FIND THE OPPOSITES
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Hand out the sheet. Remind them to look for the opposite (the opposite).
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Allow students, individually or in pairs, to connect the pairs of antonyms.
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Lead a collective correction by asking students to mime or make a facial expression corresponding to certain adjectives to check comprehension.
After the Activity (~10 min): MINI-SCENARIOS
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Give students simple situations (e.g.: "You have a big exam tomorrow", "You are going to a party").
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In pairs, one student expresses their feeling with an adjective from the sheet (e.g.: "I'm so excited!"), and their partner responds using the antonym or by asking a question (e.g.: "Why aren't you bored?").
Adaptations
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To simplify: Before the matching exercise, create two columns on the board: "Positive Feelings" and "Negative Feelings". Classify all the adjectives from the sheet together. This will greatly facilitate the search for pairs.
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To extend: Ask students to create a short dialogue between two characters who feel opposite emotions in the face of the same situation (e.g., watching a horror movie, one is excited, the other is afraid).
