CORE Strenghten Your Life Skills: For Teenagers and Young Adults – English

Unit 1 – Dealing with different emotions: Step 3

Task 1

Think thoroughly of a situation where you experienced a problem and felt strong emotions

  • Choose a situation that involved at least one other person.
  • Describe your strongest emotion? Write it down on a slip of paper.

Task 2

Sit in a group of people

  • Mix the slips of paper.
  • One person after another draws a slip of paper and acts out the emotion (no speaking!).
  • Can your colleagues guess which emotion is portrayed?
  • Think about situations where you might feel this emotion. This could involve any situation or the one you had in mind.
  • Discuss how people might feel differently in the same situation.

Task 3

Think about your initial situation and how you felt

  • Write a short text about the situation and how you felt.
  • Change the perspective and describe the same situation the way another person might have experienced it. How did she or he feel?