Topics: General English / Business English - surprise - self-perception - self-esteem
Level: B1+ and above
Skills: Speaking and Reading
Link to original article: The Power of Surprise by Tania Luna (Psychology Today)
Link to Tania Luna's website: https://www.surprisology.com/bonus
Link to Tania Luna's talk: A powerful lesson on surprise
Aims:
To talk about surprise
To express feelings and opinion about surprise
To describe, compare and pictures (visual literacy)
To make predictions before reading an adapted article
To read for gist and for detail
To analyze purpose and tone of an article (critical thinking)
To express opinion about an article
To relate the topic to students' personal and professional lives
To do a role-play using lexis and language from the lesson
To choose bonus tasks (optional)
Use of language & lexis:
To use Simple Present and Simple Past to talk about surprise
To learn / review vocabulary about the topic
To learn / review adjectives to describe an article
To learn / review prefixes and suffixes for adjectives
To learn / review prefix "self-" for nouns
What a wonderful topic! It also made me look up different expressions for expressing your surprise.