Happy, Pharrel Williams

In "Happy", the US singer Pharrell Williams makes use of many phrases,

which can help young students to learn or otherwise to describe their feelings.

Level: beginner/pre-intermediate

Grammar focus on: phrases

Activity: fill in the gap exercise (download attached document)

Tips for teachers:

this song is great to practice synonyms about emotional states.

Therefore, you could introduce today's song with flashcards,

showing different types of emoticons and then ask your students to describe them to the class.

You could also reinforce your students' vocabulary skills, simply by writing down synonyms

of some phrases that your students can find in the lyrics.

Then ask them to match your items with the corresponding ones in the lyrics.