“…The underlying hypothesis of this work is twofold: (1) the teaching of this lexicon should enable learners to better write fictional texts in which the characters feel emotions (2) To express the variety, the subtlety and the intensity of the emotions felt, it is necessary to have a imaged vocabulary and expressions based on collocations, idioms or metaphorical constructions wich allow to set up an atmosphere related to the taught emotion (see Boch & Cavalla, 2005 ;Berdal-Masuy, 2015 ;Cavalla, 2015). Of course, it should be noted that we are not discussing of an exhaustive teaching of all these expressions.…”