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Answer — Exercise 3

4.4 - The happiness formula·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

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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More exercises in 4.4 - The happiness formula

Ex. 2
Ex. 4