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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.4 - The happiness formula for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Watch the DVD. How similar were your answers for Exercise 2 to the ideas in the programme?
  2. Work in pairs and try to complete the suggestions about topics 1-3 from what you remember. Then watch again to check.
  3. Check what you remember. Underline the correct words. Then watch the DVD again and check.

Answer

a)

  1. money does not contribute to happiness
  2. The programme talks about two 'theories': Research shows that in the UK, when average income is over £10,000 a year, additional income doesn't make people happier. The problem of comparison: We become less happy when someone has something better than we have.
  3. We should slow down and take more leisure time.

b)

  1. give it up
  2. tax them
  3. take more

c)

  1. box
  2. dramatically; diminished
  3. top-of-the-range; do it for you
  4. commute; do exactly the opposite
  5. convince

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