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title: How Are You Feeling?
description: Students will interact and negotiate meaning in written conversations in the target language to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/how_are_you_feeling_-001-2.png
---

**Subject: World Languages**

**Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour**

**Topic: Expression, Communication, Emotion**

**Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [ACTFL: COMMUNICATION: INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION](https://www.actfl.org/uploads/files/general/World-ReadinessStandardsforLearningLanguages.pdf)

**Brief Description:**  Students will interact and negotiate meaning in written conversations in the target language to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be familiar with vocabulary terms for emotions and feelings, e.g., happy, sad, angry, hurt, tired, etc.

**Hook:**

- Ask students: 
    - “What are some emotions and feelings you know?”
    - “Why is it important to be able to express feelings in another language?”
    - “What are some ways we can talk about and show feelings?”

**Activity:**

- As a class, have students discuss vocabulary for emotions and feelings and discuss different ways to talk about feelings.
- Have students create a dialogue in the target language that has characters sharing their feelings.
- Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a comic using facial expressions, body language, and their dialogue to express feelings.  

**Closure:**

- Have students share their comics with the class or in small groups.
- Have students explain why they chose the emotions or feelings in their comic.
- Discuss why it’s important to be able to communicate about emotions in a different language.
- Emphasize that not all languages have the same interpretation of some feelings; for example, “tired” in English is both sleepy and exhausted.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Students may find it helpful to draft their dialogue in English first, then the target language. Allow students to use digital dictionaries/translators as appropriate for your class policy.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/rh0sk5f).
- [Main Idea Web](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_03.pdf)
- [Concept Map](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/Printables/Graphic%20Organizers_04.pdf)

**Suggested Content:**

- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078530841190330368/thumbnail.png) Elementary School ](https://content.pixton.com/elementary-school)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2078531110531739648/thumbnail.png) Middle School ](https://content.pixton.com/middle-school)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/2004983473167663104/thumbnail.png) Playground ](https://content.pixton.com/playground)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1838241401767358464/thumbnail.png) Home ](https://content.pixton.com/home)
- [![](https://img.pixton.com/content-pack/1692653419912892416/thumbnail.png) Winter ](https://content.pixton.com/winter)
- [![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/thumbnail-sports-1.png) Sports ](https://content.pixton.com/sports)

**Suggested Story Starters:**

- [ Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/parts-of-a-story-personal-narrative)
- [ Funny Personal Narrative ](https://story-starters.pixton.com/funny-personal-narrative)

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### [Restaurant Dialogue](https://ideas.pixton.com/restaurant-dialogue)

Students will learn restaurant dialogue through the creation of a comic.

[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/basic_emotions-001-2.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/basic-emotions)

### [Basic Emotions](https://ideas.pixton.com/basic-emotions)

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[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/create_emotion_characters-001.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/create-emotion-characters)

### [Create Emotion Characters](https://ideas.pixton.com/create-emotion-characters)

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