Some emotions are indescribable, but sometimes you have to try! After brainstorming adjectives that describe emotions, pupils watch a quick film, at first with no sound. Partners share their adjectives and come up with descriptions for the people in the video before watching it a second time, this time with sound. This leads into a discussion about music of various genres.

Concepts

adjectives, parts of speech

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Additional Tags

short film, descriptive adjectives, music genres, Vocabulary, english language arts

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Pros

• The featured video is short, but powerful, and works well for the related adjective activity
• An engaging topic that encourages pupils to fully express themselves during discussion

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.1.a SL.11-12.1.a