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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Poziom CEFR :B1

Poziom klasy :Level 5

Typ :Ćwiczenia i arkusze

Kultura i cywilizacja :Życie codzienne

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Objective & Resource Content

The objective is to consolidate and expand students' vocabulary for describing feelings and emotions by identifying and associating 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

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): FINDING THE OPPOSITES

Distribute the worksheet. Remind them to look for the opposite (the opposite).
Let students, individually or in pairs, connect the antonym pairs.
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

Give students simple situations (ex: "You have a big exam tomorrow", "You are going to a party").
In pairs, one student expresses their feeling with an adjective from the worksheet (ex: "I'm so excited!"), and their classmate responds using the antonym or by asking a question (ex: "Why aren't you bored?").

Adaptations

To simplify: Before the matching exercise, create two columns on the board: "Positive Feelings" and "Negative Feelings". Classify all the adjectives from the worksheet together. This will greatly facilitate finding the pairs.
To deepen: Ask students to create a short dialogue between two characters who feel opposite emotions in the same situation (ex: watching a horror movie, one is excited, the other is afraid).