Remember good things in your life. (Count your blessings)
Happiness journal.Many EFL/ESL teachers ask students to keep journals. I ask mine to keep "happiness journals". About once a week, they reflect on the good things that are happening in their lives. I don't ask them to do this daily. I don't want the "happiness homework" to become drudgery. Rather, I want it to help them "mentally recycle" and re-experience the positive events. My students get extra credit for doing this.
Our positive web is an intermediate level vocabulary activity that focusses on personal experience and positive adjectives.
My top 5 has students think and talk about good events in the past year. (10 minutes for happiness)
Someone special is a short speaking activity about someone is is special in the learner's life. (10 minutes for happiness)
1 minute to remember is a fluency activity where students remember and talk about good things that have happened recently. In the process, they re-experience the positive emotion.
Our positive web is an intermediate level vocabulary activity that focusses on personal experience and positive adjectives.
My top 5 has students think and talk about good events in the past year. (10 minutes for happiness)
Someone special is a short speaking activity about someone is is special in the learner's life. (10 minutes for happiness)
1 minute to remember is a fluency activity where students remember and talk about good things that have happened recently. In the process, they re-experience the positive emotion.
Question Words. This is a fluency activities. Students (alone or in groups) see how many "question words" they can remember. (WH words, of course, but also words like "is/are, do/did, have/had, may, etc.). The write them in the bubbles on the tasksheet. Then, in pairs, they talk about a recent vacation. Partners use as many question words as possible. In doing so, they help the first speaker more clearly re-experience the positive situation so they revisit the positive emotion as well. There are two versions of the handout, pink and blue. Use whichever you can print the most clearly (some school printers don't handle colors well.
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