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Happiness

What color is happinness?


What does it smell like?
Taste like?
Feel like?
WARM-UPS
1.HAPPY YOU:

• Are you happy today? Why?


• Have you been happy recently? Why?

• Ask other students about how happy they


are.
• When you have finished, talk about who
was happy and who was not so happy.
-What makes you happy?
- Look at the items below and rank them in
order of what makes you most happy.
___ Hiking ___ Things (cars,
___Good health clothes, gadgets,
___ Money etc.)
___ Owning your ___ A stable
own home relationship
___ Sunshine ___ Children
___ Exercise ___ Watching
television
3. CHAT:
- In pairs / groups, decide which of these
topics or words are most interesting and
which are most boring.
Australians / happy people /
market research / quality of life /
optimism / disappointment /
money / teenagers / financial
security / happy marriages / cars
Have a chat about the topics you liked.
Change topics and partners frequently.
4. HAPPY:
Spend one minute writing down all of the
different words you associate with the
word “happy”. Share your words with your
partner(s) and talk about them. Together,
put the words into different categories.
Happy as….
•happy as a king
•as a lark,
•as a sandboy,
•as a pig in mud ,
•as a clam
as a dog with two tails
•as the day is long
•as larry
•as a pie
•as a goblin*
What other metaphors do they use in
English speaking about happiness?
• I’m feeling quite down actually.
• The news really lifted my spirits.
• My heart sank when the phone rang.
• Things are looking up today.
• He was in the depths of despair.
• Don’t look so down in the mouth!
• Since the phone call, I’ve been walking on air.
• I’ve been really low recently.
• Cheer up!
• My spirits rose when I opened the mailbox.
• The future looks bright.
• Her eyes shone with delight.
• The baby looks radiant in this picture!
• Every time I see her, my face lights up.
• The announcement brightened up the whole day
for me.
• I’ve been in a black mood all morning.
• I was feeling blue last night.
• I was in the depths of despair.
• I’m afraid the situation looks very bleak.
• It’s a very gloomy city.
5. HAPPY PEOPLE:
In pairs / groups, talk about the happiest
and most miserable people you know from
the following:
• baby
• child
• teenager
• adult
• student
• co-worker
• old person
6. HAPPY OPINIONS:
- Do you agree with these opinions on happiness?
Discuss them with your partners.

• Money makes you happy.


• The older you become, the happier you
are.
• You can take lessons on how to be
happy.
• Men are happier than women.
• Married people are happier than single
people.
• People in warmer climates are happier
than people in colder climates.
• It’s hard to be happy in today’s world.
• Every country should have a Minister
of Happiness.
Where do the happiest people live?
Australians are the happiest people
in the world
Can you guess why?
1. TRUE / FALSE:
Look at the article’s headline and guess whether
these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

• a. A new study says Australians are the


world’s happiest people.T / F
• b. Interviewers conducted 30,000
telephone interviews.T / F
• c. Egyptians and Indians were among
the top five happiest populations.T / F
• d. Hungary got the wooden spoon.T / F
e. The survey showed that money can buy
happiness.T / F
f. Unemployed people were shown to be
surprisingly happy.T / F
g. The survey found that the older we
become, the happier we are.T / F
h. Materials comforts such as cars and
clothes do not make us so happy.T / F
2. SYNONYM MATCH:
Match the following synonyms from the article:
Undertaken Factors
door-to-door Confidence
Respondents Appliances
Optimism Indicated
wooden spoon Verify
Demonstrated Relatively
Determinants Award for finishing
Prove Last Interviewees
Gadgets Carried out
Comparatively House-to house
Listen to the article and explain why

Listen again and fill into the blanks


ARTICLE QUESTIONS:
Look back at the article and write down some
questions you would like to ask the class about
the text. Ask your partner / group your questions
4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do
not understand. In groups, pool unknown
words and use dictionaries to find their
meanings.
TEST EACH OTHER:
Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall
exactly how these were used in the text:

according to determinants
conducted prove
overall lower
optimism older
spoon fifties
disappointed gadgets
Do you know about other happy nations?
AFTER DISCUSSION:
Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked
about.
• What question would you like to ask about this topic?
• What was the most interesting thing you heard?
• Was there a question you didn’t like?
• Was there something you totally disagreed with?
• What did you like talking about?
• Do you want to know how anyone else answered the
questions?
• Which was the most difficult question?
• HAPPY DAYS: In pairs / groups, talk about
your level of happiness throughout the day. What
kinds of things make you happy or unhappy
during the times written in the left hand column?
What increases or decreases your happiness?
TIME
% OF TIME
THINGS THAT INCREASE HAPPINESS
THINGS THAT DECREASE HAPPINESS
• Waking up/ Breakfast/
• Going to work / school/
• Morning/Lunchtime/
• Afternoon/Going home/
• Evening/Bedtime
Advanced News:
Happiness is... Family?!
True or False? :
Guess before the article whether the sentence is true or
false. If false, correct the sentence

1. Spending time with family made young


people the happiest.
2. More dads were heroes to their children
than moms.
3. Whites were generally less happy than
Hispanics.
4. Kids had a lot less stress than adults.
5. According to the article, the future will
definitely be more difficult.
1. Vocabulary match
Cite Answerer
Primary Raise
Respondent Upset
Garner Point out
Disconcert Ethnic
Racial Expect
Elevate Positive
Optimistic Receive
Counterpart Main
Anticipate Peer
2. Fill in the Blanks
garnered /anticipate/ respondents/ counterparts/
cite/racial /primary/ elevated optimistic/
disconcerting

a.You might be tempted to ( ) sex, money, and


music.
b. Sex, money, and music aren't ( ) sources of
happiness.
c. When looking towards a role model, nearly half
of the ( ) mentioned one of their parents.
d. For role models, dads ( ) 21 % of the vote.
e. Other results tend towards the ( ).
garnered /anticipate/ respondents/ counterparts/
cite/ racial /primary/ elevated optimistic/
disconcerting
The survey discovered a ( ) divide when it comes
to happiness.
g. The middle class and women had slightly ( )
stress levels.
h. Pollees in the 18-24 year old range were even
more ( ).
i. Fewer of their younger ( ) said the future will hold
greater amounts of happiness.
j. Many in both age groups ( ) a more difficult life
than their parents' is in store.
Listen and be ready to sum up the ideas

Listen again and fill into the blanks


Questions:
a. According to the article, what makes
young people the happiest?
b. Who is the main role model for today's
youth?
c. According to the article, which ethnic
group was the happiest?
d. Who had more stress, adults or kids?
e. What do young people think of the future?
Talk about the following questions in
pairs/groups.
Remember to support your answers!
1. Do you agree with the article that family is more
important than sex, money, or music? Why/not?
2. 2. What makes a family successful? Why do you
think so?

3. According to the article, many think the future will


be more difficult. What do you think? Why?
4. Compared to now, did you feel more or less stress
when you were younger? Why?

5. If you won $1,000,000, would you be happy?


Why/not?
5. Role-play:
A researcher who studies happiness must
interview a family with problems.

There is mom who is busy with volunteer


work, dad who works eighty hours each
week, and a teenaged son/daughter. In
pairs, role play the interviewer and the
mom, dad, or son/daughter. Answer the
questions below.
• Does your time away from home affect your
child? Do your parents' busy schedules affect
you?
• Do you think your son/daughter is happy?
Why/not? Are you happy? Why/not?
• How much do you know about your child's life?
-How much do your parents know about your
life?
• Who is your son's role model? Why do you think
so? Who is your role model? Why?
• Which is more important, family or money?
Which is more important, family or money?
Watch the video and be ready to answer
the questions

Happiness And How To Get It: The Bartender

http://www.videojug.com/interview/get-happy-2
Get some more advice on how to be
happy here

Can you predict what is the recipe?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3600934/Being
-Happy

What piece of advice did you like best?


HOMEWORK
HAPPIEST MOMENT:
Write an essay on the happiest moment in your
life. Read your essay to your classmates in the
next lesson. Did you all write about similar
things?

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