Body and mind
The mind
The body
a short text about how athletes can overcome
the problem of heat during events
a letter of application
an article about the secret of happiness
short texts about various ways people can keep
in shape
a report on a summer camp
a short text about ‘well-being’ classes
Flick through the module and find...
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1. pre-reading
• What are some of the things that make you happy?
• Do you think that happiness is a relative state?
2. reading for gist
Read the text on page 33 and answer the question
that follows.
Where might this text come from?
5. post-reading
• Do you believe that it is really hard for humans to be
happy?
• After reading the text, would you make any changes to
your everyday life? Why/Why not?
3. READING FOR DETAI LS
Discuss.
Discuss.
Read the text again and answer the questions 1-7.
Choose a, b, c or d.
1. What was true of people forty years ago?
a. They were richer.
b. They were generally happier.
c. They had a reasonable amount of material
possessions.
d. They were generally less happy.
2. What does the writer find surprising?
a. that disabled people are not generally unhappy
b. that people who do not have much of a social life
are not happy
c. that people with busy social lives are happy
d. that sick people are unhappy
3. What happens when people discover something bad is
about to happen?
a. They feel miserable.
b. They feel like they have been leading meaningless
lives up to that point.
c. They feel like their previously unbearable lives
weren’t that bad after all.
d. They feel that their lives could not be any worse
than they already are.
4. What happened each time the rat pressed the handle?
a. its appetite disappeared
b. it fell into a trap
c. it ate and drank
d. it felt very good
5. According to the writer, what do we need to do to be
happy?
a. live without negative feelings
b. make sure that nothing goes wrong
c. learn to accept that life is sometimes difficult
d. keep our lives free of bad things
6. How does one achieve the flow (line 38)?
a. by doing something one really likes
b. by being pushed beyond one’s ability
c. by doing something that will be rewarded
d. by doing things that are really dangerous
7. What does it in line 40 refer to?
a. the flow
b. your ability
c. the limit of your ability
d. something that completely absorbs you
Look at the words highlighted in the text and guess
what they mean. Choose a, b or c.
4. GUESSING THE MEANING OF UNKNO WN
WORDS
1. reasonable
a. correct
b. fairly large
c. too big
2. bliss
a. happiness
b. emptiness
c. truth
3. stimulate
a. activate
b. prevent
c. remove
4. naive
a. firm
b. well-based
c. unrealistic
5. strenuous
a. easy
b. common
c. demanding
a. a psychology textbook
b. a scientific journal
c. a magazine
d. a brochure
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The mind
The body
a short text about how athletes can overcome
the problem of heat during events
a letter of application
an article about the secret of happiness
short texts about various ways people can keep
in shape
a report on a summer camp
a short text about ‘well-being’ classes
Flick through the module and find...
31
1. pre-reading
• What are some of the things that make you happy?
• Do you think that happiness is a relative state?
2. reading for gist
Read the text on page 33 and answer the question
that follows.
Where might this text come from?
5. post-reading
• Do you believe that it is really hard for humans to be
happy?
• After reading the text, would you make any changes to
your everyday life? Why/Why not?
3. READING FOR DETAI LS
Discuss.
Discuss.
Read the text again and answer the questions 1-7.
Choose a, b, c or d.
1. What was true of people forty years ago?
a. They were richer.
b. They were generally happier.
c. They had a reasonable amount of material
possessions.
d. They were generally less happy.
2. What does the writer find surprising?
a. that disabled people are not generally unhappy
b. that people who do not have much of a social life
are not happy
c. that people with busy social lives are happy
d. that sick people are unhappy
3. What happens when people discover something bad is
about to happen?
a. They feel miserable.
b. They feel like they have been leading meaningless
lives up to that point.
c. They feel like their previously unbearable lives
weren’t that bad after all.
d. They feel that their lives could not be any worse
than they already are.
4. What happened each time the rat pressed the handle?
a. its appetite disappeared
b. it fell into a trap
c. it ate and drank
d. it felt very good
5. According to the writer, what do we need to do to be
happy?
a. live without negative feelings
b. make sure that nothing goes wrong
c. learn to accept that life is sometimes difficult
d. keep our lives free of bad things
6. How does one achieve the flow (line 38)?
a. by doing something one really likes
b. by being pushed beyond one’s ability
c. by doing something that will be rewarded
d. by doing things that are really dangerous
7. What does it in line 40 refer to?
a. the flow
b. your ability
c. the limit of your ability
d. something that completely absorbs you
Look at the words highlighted in the text and guess
what they mean. Choose a, b or c.
4. GUESSING THE MEANING OF UNKNO WN
WORDS
1. reasonable
a. correct
b. fairly large
c. too big
2. bliss
a. happiness
b. emptiness
c. truth
3. stimulate
a. activate
b. prevent
c. remove
4. naive
a. firm
b. well-based
c. unrealistic
5. strenuous
a. easy
b. common
c. demanding
a. a psychology textbook
b. a scientific journal
c. a magazine
d. a brochure
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