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Teacher’s Name: Johanna Armenta Castro

Student’s Name: _________________________________ DATE: June 11th ,2016

How are you feeling today?

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Emotions and your brain
Emotion is an intense mental state that arises in the nervous system and evokes either a
positive or negative psychological response.
Emotions are related to behavior with survival value (e.g. fear motivates flight, anger
motivates fighting). They enable us to react to situations and influence our behavior
-For example, anger or fear will set your heart racing, and feeling happy will make you
smile.
The body frequently responds to sadness by a feeling of tightness in the throat. Pain is
best relieved by the well-known (and sometimes automatic) processes of crying, laughing,
sweating, and trembling.
Extreme emotions can cause problems. Sadness can become depression, anger can
become aggression, and pleasure can lead to addiction. Feeling afraid in a dangerous
situation is natural and useful. But being scared when there doesn't seem to be a clear
reason, is anxiety.
When remembering an emotional event, you recall not only what happened, but also how
you felt. Scientists think that we store early emotional memories, even if we cannot
remember what actually happened. These memories can last a very long time and may
still affect us as adults.
One of the key areas of your brain that deals with showing, recognizing and controlling
the body's reactions to emotions is known as the limbic system.
But are emotions and feelings just learnt as we grow up, surrounded by pictures,
photographs and television? 4 Apparently not: even people who live in isolated parts of
the world use these same facial expressions to communicate their emotions. They are
considered to be universal in all human beings.

Activity 1: Say if the following statements are true or false and correct the false ones.

1. Emotions are only positive.

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2. Emotions have a link with man’s survival instinct.
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3. Emotional memories disappear quickly.
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4. Emotions have an impact on our behaviour.
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5. When you are scared, your heart beats less quickly.

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6. Our emotions are controlled by our heart.

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7. People from different cultures have different emotions.

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Activity 2: Listen and number the pictures correctly.

http://www.123listening.com/freeaudio/feelings-1.mp3

Activity 3: Speaking: All About Me!

- How do you feel today?

- Tell about a time you have felt each emotion:

a. Happy c. Sad
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b. Angry d. Scared
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Homework: Draw a line from the words to the picture to label it.
BODY PARTS

Where does it go? How many of each body part do we have?

Write the words in the correct group.
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Go to: http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/body-parts