B1 – Intermediate
A brain chemical called ‘dopamine’ is said to be released when we listen to music, eat, and do other rewarding activities.
Read the article below to know how exactly music affect our mood and be ready to answer the questions that follow.
Music has been a part of human history and culture for a very long time. Perhaps it has always been a part of our history and culture. And scientists now know the reason. Music makes us feel good.
It doesn’t matter what kind of music people listen to. When we listen to music, our brains produce a chemical. The chemical increases our heart rate. It makes us breathe faster. We even get chills with some exciting music. The same chemical makes us happy when we eat delicious food, laugh with friends, or win at something difficult.
Almost everyone feels the same way about music. In fact, even babies reacted to music!
Source: headsupenglish.com
Discussion Questions:
1. Does music make you feel good?
2. What kind of music gives you the chills?
3. What other things make you feel good?
4 replies on “Music Makes Us Happy”
1. Does music make you feel good?
Yes, when I listen to the music I like, I feel very good.
2. What kind of music gives you the chills?
It depends on the momento. When I’m running I like to listen energetic music, when I’m relaxed I like to listen to melodical music.
3. What other things make you feel good?
As the text says, I feel good when I eat delicious food, when I laugh with friends, or when I win at something difficult
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Music makes me feel good. I can remember marvellous situations in my life, I can imagine moments that I would like to live, I can feel emotion, happiness, love.
I´m sad, the kind of music that gives me the chills is the melodic, with lyrics that remind me of hard moments, complicated situations, people who aren´t there, who wake fears about my family. This kind of music makes me cry.
My children make me feel the happiest person in the world: if my children are well, their health is good, they laugh, my heart beats strong and happy.
Being with my family, that everyone is healthy (my husband, my parents, my brother), having a right job to eat, pay for the needs of my family, that there are no wars, that it rains, …
The music make me feel good. A lot of situations that I´m happy and I can feel nice emotions.
One of my children is an artist, he student for touch piano and has a good ear.
I like a lot of kind of music, I feel chills when I listen rock, pop, reggae or soul…many song remind me of my boyfriends stage with my wife or my friends.
Other things that I feel good are drink a good wine, make sports with my friends, go to the cinema or watch a movie with my children.
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