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THEME 5 PSYCHOLOGY

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing mood
F2 Making suggestions to change negative mood
12 GRADE F3 Following and giving instructions
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8 Suggestions, Please!

The goal of this activity is to have students make suggestions to change negative mood. It also makes
it possible for students to reflect on their own experiences and use their background information in
an attempt to come up with solutions.

Materials and Preparation
Negative mood phrases and suggested prompts on page 124
As a preparation, the teacher cuts out the negative mood phrases and places them facing down in a
pile on the desk. Then, she/he writes the suggested prompts on the board before the activity.

Procedure
1 Choose a volunteer, ask her/him to pick a card from the pile on the desk and make a sentence
using the phrase she/he is holding. Remind them that they should give imaginary reasons as part
of their sentences.

E.g. The expression: feel fed up
The student may make a sentence, such as “I feel fed up with getting up early because I find it
difficult.”

2 After the volunteer states her/his mood through a sentence, the other students take it in turns
to make suggestions to change her/his negative mood using one of the suggestion prompts.

E.g. For the volunteer who has come up with the sentence in the example above, the suggestions could
be:
1. I suggest that you go to bed early.
2. Why don’t you go to bed early?

3 Let students discuss the suggestions to agree on the best one.
4 Then, ask another student to pick up a card and carry on the activity.
5 Run the activity until you feel that it has served its purpose.

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