Розробка уроку " В пошуках щастя"(психологичні дослідження)

Topic: How  to pursue  happiness

Objectives: Practical :  to teach students reading comprehension

Developing: to develop students’ reading and speaking skills

Upbringing to motivate students towards learning English:

Equipment: the cards with the text of the quiz " Are you happy  being you?"

 

                                                   Procedure

1. Introduction.
2. Warming-up.

Quiz  “Are you happy  being you?"

There are times when each and everyone of us looks in the mirror and wishes that somebody completely different was staring back. But what about the rest of the time? Do our quiz and find out if you’re happy being you.

1.If someone criticizes you, do you usually…

1. feel sorry for yourself? (0)
2. listen to what they’re saying before you reply? (5)
3. start defending yourself (10)

2.Back to the mirror. Study your full-length reflection in it and then tick which parts of yours you’d change if you had half a chance…(1 point for every letter you didn’t tick.)

1. nose;             e) teeth;             I) legs;
2. mouth;          f) skin;               j) height;
3. eyes;             g) tummy           k) chest/bust;
4. ears;              h) bottom;          l) feet.

3.If a member of the opposite sex asked you out, would you be…

1. surprised but pleased and flattered? (5)
2. hardly surprised? After all you are the best-looking person in the school! (10)
3. absolutely amazed that they should choose you ?(0)

4.What quality do you look for on your best friend ?

1. A sense of humour. (5)
2. Someone you can tell your troubles to. (0)
3. Someone who thinks you are brilliant . (10)

5.When you are in  a group of people, how would you describe yourself ?

1. The leader of the pack. (10)
2. One of the crowd. (5)
3. The odd one out. (0)

6.If you were feeling depressed, would you…

1. talk to someone about it ?  (5)
2. go and take some exercises? (10)
3. sit around and feel miserable? (0)

      Add up your score.

       0-20:    Come on, you can’t be that bad – no one is! You have a very low

                    opinion of yourself, and if you don’t change soon, you’ll spend your

                    whole life feeling unhappy and envious of your friends instead of

                     having a laugh and enjoying being with them. Take another look

                     in that mirror and smile! You and everything around you will look

                     better immediately! 

      21-40:     You’re realistic about yourself, and realize that you can’t be the

                       centre  of attention the whole time. That makes you a very good

                     friend to have around. Don’t worry about your appearance. Nobody’s

                     perfect!

      41-62:      You are self-confident and have high regard for yourself. You also

                     like to be at the centre of things and have lots of friends. Be careful

                     about becoming too big-headed tough. If you do you’ll regret it !                

 

 

3.Pre-reading activity.

 3.1.  What words do you  associate with the word “happiness”?

            List all of associations on the board. Explain why you have made these associations.

3.2. Vocabulary

Word search puzzle.

Find the words and circle them.

Htafchoicekluynm

Happinessthuiwqx

Afhuioattitudelmp

Jfgdtypursuekolfh

 

3.3.Match the meaning with the correct word.

permanent	Very happy, or likely to make people very happy
attitude	Continuing to exist for a long time
command	Smth. is unclear, confusing, not certain
joyful	To tell smb. Officially to do smth
ambiguous	The opinion and feeling that you usually have about smth.

3.4. Fill in the gaps using the words above

1. Miller soon became a … fixture on the team.

2. Christmas is a …occasion for children.

3.  His role in the affair is very … .

4. Captain …the crew to report to the main deck.

5. Their careless…   towards the problem  annoyed them.

 

4. While-reading  activity

4.1.  Look through the list of the synonyms to the word 'happiness"

To be glad, pleased	Happy  because something good happened
To be delighted, thrilled, overjoyed	Very glad or pleased
To be ecstatic	Extremely happy and excited
To be cheerful	Living in a way that shows you are happy
Satisfied, content	Fairly pleased with a situation, result etc.
To be contented	Happy with your life
To be optimistic, positive	Believing that good things will happen in the future

Use the words from the table to make up sentences

5. Post-reading  activity

5.1.Agree or disagree to the following statements and add an argument to

        support your view-point.

         1) Some people think that happiness is a permanent condition.

         2) Happiness is like a visitor…

         3) And you can’t force happiness to  happen...

         4) Happiness is an attitude,  not a condition.

         5) Happiness is a  choice.

 

Text for reading

    Every day, it seems, we’re flooded with pop-psych advice about happiness. The relentless message is that there is something we are supposed to do to be happy – make the right choices ,or have the right set of beliefs about ourselves. Some people think that happiness is a permanent condition. If we are not joyful all the  time, we conclude there is a problem.

             Yet  what  more people experience is not a  permanent state of  happiness. It is something  more ordinary, a  mixture of  what essayist Hugh Prather once  called “Unsolved  problem, ambiguous victories and vague  defeats – with few  moments of  clear  peace “.

               Maybe you wouldn’t say yesterday  was  a happy day, because you had a  misunderstanding with your boss. But weren’t there moments of happiness,  moments of clear peace? Now that you think about it, wasn’t there a letter from an old  friend or a stranger who asked where you got such a great haircut? You  remember having a  bad  day, yet those good  moments  occurred.

                 Happiness is like a visitor, a genial exotic Aunt Tilly who turns up when you least expect her, orders an extravagant round of drinks and then  disappears, trailing a lingering scent of gardenias. You  can’t  command  her appearance; you can only appreciate  her when  she  does  show  up. And you can’t force happiness to  happen – but you can make sure you are aware of it when it does.

                 While  you are  walking home with a  head  full of problems, try to  notice the  sun set the  windows of the city on fire. Listen to the sounds of kids playing  basketball in the  fading light and  feel your  spirits rise, just from having paid attention.

                 Happiness is an attitude,  not a condition. Happiness is your family  assembled at  dinner. It’s  in the present, not in the distant promise of a  “someday” when…” How much luckier we are- and how much more happiness we experience – if we can fall in love with the life we are living.

                  Happiness is a  choice. Reach  out  for  it at the moment it appears, like a balloon drifting seaward in a  bright blue  sky.

                                                                                                      Adair Lara

 

 

 

Summary

Home assignment: write the story to illustrate the statement " Happiness is an attitude, not a condition"