Feliz, Triste, Enojado, Cansado
Happy, Sad, Angry, Tired
📐 Standards alignment
ACTFL World-Readiness: Communication (interpersonal, interpretive, presentational) · Cultures (expressing feelings warmly — a hallmark of Spanish-speaking cultures) · Comparisons (Spanish vs. English)
Can-Do targets (NCSSFL-ACTFL, Novice Low):
- I can name four feelings in Spanish.
- I can answer how I am really feeling.
- I can spot feelings on faces and name them.
Learning objectives
- Name four feelings in Spanish
- Answer ¿Cómo estás? with Estoy… + a feeling
- Read feelings on faces and name them in Spanish
Materials
Your face and some acting range. Optional: feeling-face cards drawn together as warm-up.
Prior knowledge
¿Cómo estás? may echo Unit 1 greetings — now it gets real answers.
Key vocabulary
feliz · triste · enojado · cansado
Feelings check-in
Ask (in English): how do you feel right now? Happy? Wiggly? Today Spanish gets feelings — so ¿Cómo estás? can finally get a true answer.
Meet four new words
Tap each card to flip it and hear how it sounds. Look at the picture, say the Spanish word out loud, then check the back for the English meaning.
Say it three times
Go back through the cards above. For each word: the grown-up (or the 🔊 listen button) says it once, then your child repeats it three times, nice and loud. Silly voices are encouraged!
Feelings theater
Act each feeling BIG — a feliz so happy it bounces, a cansado that slides off the chair. Then ask ¿Cómo estás? and your child answers with acting + Spanish: Estoy triste (fake sobbing optional but encouraged). Feelings vocabulary doubles as emotional vocabulary — naming feelings helps kids everywhere, in any language.
Memory game: ¡Encuentra el par!
Find the matching pairs — each Spanish word has its picture hiding somewhere in the grid.
Find the matching pairs!
Escucha y elige — Listen and choose
Press each play button and choose what you heard.
1. Press play. What did you hear?
2. Press play. What did you hear?
3. Press play. What did you hear?
Feelings freeze
Dance to music; when it stops, call a feeling — everyone freezes their face AND body into it. Bonus round: freeze the OPPOSITE of what is called. (Opposite of cansado? Jumping jacks.)
One more flip-through
Scroll back up to the flashcards and let your child flip through them on their own, saying each word before checking the back. No help this time — just see what they remember!
Show what you know
1. “Triste” means…
2. How do you answer ¿Cómo estás? when you are happy?
¡Muy bien!
Your child answers ¿Cómo estás? with real feelings: feliz, triste, enojado, cansado. Ask it every morning now — it is a two-second daily Spanish lesson built into breakfast.
Take it home
The feelings diary
Each morning this week, answer ¿Cómo estás? in Spanish at breakfast. Draw four faces below — one per feeling — and circle how you felt most days.
Name: Date:
Feelings detective
Watch a cartoon with the sound off for two minutes. Name the characters’ feelings in Spanish as they change. How many did you spot?
Note for teachers & parents
Pacing: the girl form (enojada, cansada) exists — model whichever matches the speaker naturally, explain nothing, accept everything.
Watch for: this vocabulary has social-emotional value beyond Spanish: a child who can say Estoy enojado instead of melting down has gained a life skill.