Happiness

B1 – Intermediate

Happiness is a simple word with a deep meaning behind it. When we feel positive emotions we tend to feel happy. That is what happiness is all about. It is also regarded as the mental state of a person in an optimistic manner.

Listen to this audio and read the transcript below about happiness.

https://listenaminute.com/h/happiness.html

Vocabulary Questions:

  1. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “happiness“? Explain.
  2. What does the word “measure” mean? Use it in a sentence.
  3. What does “doom and gloom” mean? Give 2 synonyms. Use them in sentences.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What’s your idea of happiness?
  2. Do you think that happiness lies within you or does it depend upon other people and external things? Explain.
  3. What is or was the happiest time of your life?
  4. Do you feel that you have to work hard and be miserable now in order to be happy later? Elaborate.
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2 replies on “Happiness”

Vocabulary Questions:

1. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “happiness“? Explain.
I think about nice things that make me feel calm and comfortable with joy like a beautiful landscape, spending time with my husband doing things together, eating tasty food…

2. What does the word “measure” mean? Use it in a sentence.
It means to obtain the size or the amount of something using an instrument. “We measured the size of the bed in the shop to know if it fitted in our room”.

3. What does “doom and gloom” mean? Give 2 synonyms.
It means a fatal fate, darkness, pessimism, anguish

Discussion Questions:

1. What’s your idea of happiness?
My idea of happiness is to be able to spend time doing things that I like the most and enjoying the small things like eating nice food, walking through a forest, swimming in the sea.

2. Do you think that happiness lies within you or does it depend upon other people and external things? Explain.
I think it mainly depends on the attitude we have when dealing with each situation. Thus, it is affected by external things but it depends on how we deal with those external things.

3. What is or was the happiest time of your life?
When my husband and I travelled through Argentina visiting beautiful regions, like the waterfalls and the glaciers, and we decided to share our lives together.

4. Do you feel that you have to work hard and be miserable now in order to be happy later? Elaborate.
No, I don’t. I feel that we should decide what we really want and don’t want in our lives and put a realistic effort to achieve them.

Thanks for writing your responses to this lesson’s discussion questions. Nicely done!

Take a look at some minor revisions you can make in your prepositions here:

I feel that we should decide what we really want and don’t want in our lives and put a realistic effort to achieve them.

I feel that we should decide on what we really want and don’t want in our lives and put in a serious effort to achieve them.

You are doing a good job so far. Keep it up!

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