Images or famous pieces of art can be a powerful way to explore different emotional words vocabulary.

In this example, learners were set the task of sourcing an image that elicited an emotional response during a time when they had access to laptops and ipads. After printing it out, learners discussed the emotion words that they could draw from the image. Learners also had access to the teachers training manual (Training Manual used during training) to up-level the vocabulary they elicited from the image. By encouraging children to always look for and use alternative words for happy, sad, angry it gives them the opportunity to practice using emotive language in real life contexts. Learners then recorded the more advanced words that best described the emotion on a blank orange cog.  The teacher was able to very quickly create this display using the image printed and the cogs with the new vocabulary, clearly visible so that pupils could refer to and add to as it naturally came up during teaching and learning activities.