Vocabulary for speaking: Opinions,
Interrupting, Fillers, Linkers.
 Activity made from Youtube video:
 Radox - Marconi Union - Weightless - Actividades para leer y escuchar de Hotpotatoes - Vocabulary, Cloze, Quiz.
Happiness songs:
 Lighthouse Family - Be Happy - on Youtube, Lyrics.
Gene Kelly: Singing in the Rain
Lyrics, Youtube
BJ Thomas: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head Lyrics, Youtube
 Happiness Wordle (Using Wordle.net)
Vocabulary of Happiness:
| aesthetic appreciation
age
anger
anxiety
at once
bliss
choose
compassion
connected
consciousness
contagious
contentment
depression
elusive
embrace
emotion
enjoy
exhale
expectations
experience
extrovert
destiny
dreams
faith
feeling
filled
financial problems
fleeting
|
focus on
frustration
genes
grace
grateful
gratification
gratitude
happy
harmony
hateful
health
heart
hold on to
hope
human
glad
income
introvert
joy
key
kindness
laughter
let go
let it get to you
life satisfaction
life sucks
love
lucky
|
marital status
memory
mind
mood
optimism
parenthood
path
peace
peppy
personality
pessimism
pleasure
positive attitude
power
quality of life
relationships
relax
relief
religion
religious
remind myself
reward
satisfaction
self-actualization
self-esteem
self-sufficient
sense
sense of humor
sense of purpose |
sex life
share
simplicity
simplify
sleep
social interest
spiritual
state of mind
stress
stressed
stressful
subconscious
success
suffering
touchy-feely
troubled relationships
truly
trust
unconditional love
unhappiness
indescribeable
warm
well-being
wisdom
world
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Make your own diagram like this one about music: Music map
Speaking about Happiness:
Possible Topic:
Make a list of ten simple things in your life that make you happy and/or that you are grateful for. Talk about them, give reasons.
Make a list of ten things in your life that make you unhappy and say what you do to find relief from them. Talk about them, give reasons.
Are people in general happy? Why or why not? Say what can people do to become happier and give examples.
More: Happiness on ITESLJ.org
Happiness resources:
Happiness on Wikipedia Happiness on TIME.com Happiness on Wisdomquotes.com
Take a Happiness test on BBC.co.uk - Watch the videos about happiness there. Also, check out the link to the forum (which is closed, but there are many interesting posts there.) Happiness on Quotations Page Happiness Poems
Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom on NPR.org - with mp3.
Creating Our Own Happiness on NPR.org - with mp3.
A Study To Smile About: Happiness Is Contagious on NPR.org - with mp3. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness on NPR.org - with mp3.
Happiness Art: Happiness, Hope Inspire Miami Pop Artist on NPR.org - with mp3.
More speaking activities:
Aprender Inglés
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