Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happiness. Show all posts

9.30.2015

8 idioms about happiness

Click here to learn some idioms about happiness.

Be Happy


This is the video we watched in class yesterday. 


Be Happy from kieran donaghy on Vimeo.

10.24.2014

LAUGHTER YOGA

Watch a video about laughter yoga and do the exercises below.

Monologue: Things that make me happy!

Click here to see some ideas on how to prepare your monologue for class.

9.26.2014

Because I'm Happy

Sing along


10.08.2013

What makes you happy?

Click here to see some tips to prepare your monologue for class.

3.21.2013

International Happiness Day

The United Nations has declared 20 March as the first ever International Day of Happiness.
It hopes the initiative will encourage governments to consider the well-being of their citizens, rather than focusing efforts solely on economic growth.

1. Watch this video about people in the UK. What makes them happy? (Answers in 'comments').
Speaker 1:
Speaker 2:
Speaker 3:
Speaker 4:
2. HAPPY is a feature documentary that takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Calcutta in a search of what really makes people happy. Combining powerful interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research and real life stories of ordinary and extraordinary people around the world, HAPPY uncovers the secrets behind our most valued emotion. Director: Roko Belic. Click here to watch the trailer.

10.12.2010

How happy you are

Do you want to know how happy you are? Click here and find out.

More about happiness

Our sense of happiness can have a great impact on our health and life. Jeremy Milnes explores the things that make us happy. Find out how happiness affects your health and how to get more of it in your life.

Watch the video and complete the questions (to check your answers, click on "comments").

a) Can you complete the list of things that have to come together to produce happiness?
__________________, healthy mind, __________________, success, __________________.

b) Which things impact on our happiness?
Our __________________, our beliefs, our __________________, our upbringing, our income

c) How happy we are is influenced by four things:
1. Biology: __________________
2. Personality: Who tend to be happier?
3. Environment: our __________________, our income and whether we are in a __________________.
4. __________________ because it releases endorphines.

d) What is great about happiness?
e) Our levels of happiness can change from time to time so what pieces of advice does he give us?
- First of all _____________________________________
- Aim for __________________ and a positive attitude on life.
- The important thing is what _____________________________________
- Focus on _____________________________________
- Take up _____________________________________
- _______________ regularly.
- Laugh and ________________________________ because laughing releases tension and makes you feel better.