This study aims at understanding what happens in the enriched classroom environment, specifically in an English classroom of a public school in Rio de Janeiro in which I teach. In this search, my intention was to work for understanding the objective of students going to school and to English classes in the mentioned school. The present research was developed within the areas of Contemporary Applied Linguistics (RAJAGOPALAN, 2006) and Exploratory Practice (ALLWRIGHT, 1991-2006) and illustrates the importance of daily classroom practices for the development of practitioner research conducted collaboratively by me and my students. Within this framework, the Appraisal System (MARTIN and WHITE, 2005) also plays an important role in the process of analyzing the data generated during the focus group (ANGROSINO, 2009), discussion. On this occasion I managed to revisit data which had been previously generated, thus enabling the process of reflection about emotions and beliefs lived two years ago. The analyzed data are the students responses to two Potentially Exploitable Reflexive Activities in which I asked them, in a semi-structured interview with the focus group, the purpose of going to school and attending English classes. The discourse shows a high degree of affect in the relationship between students and between students and the teacher, as well as evaluations of affect, judgment and appreciation that permeate my discourse as a teacher-moderator and the students’ discourse during the focus group meeting.