Show me happy without saying anything. Now sad. Now confused. Faces and shoulders do a lot of the work before any word arrives.
Today
- You will learn eight Spanish words for how you feel.
- You will say how you feel right now in one short Spanish sentence.
- You will find out how short a Spanish answer to "how are you" usually is.
Here are today's eight emotion words, in two groups of four. Tap each one, listen, then say it back together. Notice how many end in -ado or -oso.
English cousins: two words sound almost like English already. Nervioso is a close cousin of nervous, and emocionado shares a root with emotion (it means excited).
After each group, we build the short sentence: Estoy … (eh-STOY, I am …).
It is the last five minutes of a big football match in Madrid: fans look emocionado, nervioso, enfadado… Volunteers flip two cards on the board. When a match is found, everyone says the Spanish word together.
We have just said the frame together. Now open your copy and write:
Estoy ______ (eh-STOY, I am ______)
Pick one emotion from the list on screen that matches how you feel right now. Example on the board: Estoy feliz.
You each have a bingo card. Cross off each Spanish emotion as you hear it. First full line stands and reads their winning words aloud in Spanish.
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