HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

1. Carve your own pumpkin.

2. Listen to an article (click at the bottom of the page) about Halloween and take notes (don't look at the script). Then, click on the handout at the bottom of the page and look at the questions. Listen again and try to answer them. Finally, listen and read the article. Check your answers at the end of the handout.

3. Watch the video we watched in class yesterday.

4. Listen to the song: This is Halloween lyrics

Question tags

1. Read the grammar and see some examples.
2. Now do some exercises.

The social network

Watch the movie trailer and fill in the gaps.

Facebook facts: are these facts true or false?

Sentence stress

Read here about the importance of word stress and listen to some examples and click here to see some simple rules.

Free time plans

Listen to this conversation between two friends and choose the right answer. Then you can listen and read the tapescript, you'll learn some new words and you can do some vocabulary activities too.

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.