Ana Karen Navarrete Morales

LESSON D HAPPIOLOGY

1. WHICH OF THESE ACTIVITIES MAKE YOU FEEL HAPPY? ORDER THEM FROM 1 TO 5 (1
IS THE HAPPIEST). DISCUSS YOUR CHOICES WITH A CLASSMATE.

a. Getting a good night's sleep.

b. Eating what I like.
c. Learning new things.
d. Going out with friends.
e. Spending a complete day watching movies.

2. SKIM THE TEXT. WHICH OF THESE THREE SENTENCES WOULD BE THE BEST
SUMMARY?

1. Happiness comes from water and its rivers.

2. Technology may help raise happiness or it might result the other way around, if it is not well focused.
3.
✘ Happiness and technology can be measured by applying a well conducted survey.

Happiness and Technology.

Only an hour's drive from the
state's capital is the municipality
of Ixmiquilpan, a place where
old and new, wet and dry, green
and dried up converge. A town
left behind in the past but
nowadays, it is one of the most
visited places in the region. Life
span, work, fun and happiness
for many residents is improving.
It is becoming more and more
popular in the region and among where innovation, technology,
tourists. Citizens from this applied science and electronics
municipality are aware that if are growing as fast as crops in
they do not bet on technology, the rainy season. It is a fact that
natural resources will extinguish many different things are
in a short period and once again, happening in the state’s capital.
their hometown will be left out
to forgetfulness. A city that has brought Silicon
Valley to its own Metropolitan
Not even 70 kilometers from Area. The institute of Harvard
Ixmiquilpan, there's a place has decided to implement one
of their most ambitious projects strategy, they will obtain and
in Hidalgo, a project which implement the best possible
promises to bring prosperity to option to maintain its thermal
the region, and to solve many rivers and their water parks
social problems which this which allow them to have a
society is encountering. regular income.
Professionals are getting trained
to be able to identify, analyze One of the researchers started
and apply this new asking them many questions
methodology in order to attack, because he wanted to know
eliminate and restore any why these people seemed to be
damages which the problematic full of euphoria. He asked, how
may have caused. much they earn a month, how
healthy they feel and how changed. Today, they live with
People from Ixmiquilpan have secure their hometown is? He joy, they are grateful for what
decided to bring many was amazed because the they have, they are really living
professionals enrolled in this citizens were pretty normal, life and they want to keep it as it
program to develop and nothing special between him is no matter what. Transform
implement a strategy to and them, so what was it? He Hidalgo and the institute of
maintain and recover damaged thought about it all the trip, Harvard accepted the challenge
sites and why not? to teach when they got there, he finally to find a technological
them and their neighbor found the answer to his approach to preserve these
communities how to coexist questions, and that is, people beautiful ecosystems, the
with their surroundings and to from Ixmiquilpan used to live program's leader PhD Ramon
obtain a touristic benefit from it. under the weather, no hope of Alberto Sanchez believes this is
People are very optimistic, they making their lives better but the real heart of the program, to
assure that with help of local when a local resident be able to help Hidalgo’s society
authorities, automation but discovered the gorgeous rivers with real actions not just by
most important with Harvard’s beneath them everything filling a bunch of documents.
 3. READ THE TEXT AGAIN AND CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER A, B OR C

1. It is in the first paragraph and it is a consequence of happiness. _________

a. technology b. lifetime c. more people
2. An aspect which is happening in the state nowadays is. _________
a. freedom b. technology and applied science c. happiness.
3. Silicon Valley is mentioned in the text as an example of .... _________
a. development b. happiness c. life span
4. People from Ixmiquilpan wish to … _________
a. have more tourism b. have more money c. preserve nature.
5. What’s life like in Ixmiquilpan today? _________
a. full of water b. full of waterparks c. full of hope
6. Hot underground water is considered as… _________
a. hot water b. thermal c. good for health
7. The project leader says that this is the heart of the program _________
a. the objective b. the guidelines c. the experiences.

4. IDENTIFY ONE WORD IN EACH SENTENCE THAT REFERS TO EITHER TECHNOLOGY

OR HAPPINESS. WRITE IT ON THE LINE.

1. Not even 70 kilometers from distance, there's a place where innovation, technology, applied science and
electronics are growing as fast as crops in the rainy season. ________________
2. People there are very optimistic and they assure that with help of local authorities, automation, and most
important with Harvard’s strategy. ________________
3. A researcher started asking them many questions because he wanted to know why these people seemed to
be full of euphoria. ________________
4. Today, they live with joy, they are grateful for what they have, they are really living life and they want to keep
it as it is no matter what. ________________

5. WORK IN GROUPS. DISCUSS THESE QUESTIONS. TAKE TURNS ASKING AND

ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS, MAKE SURE EVERYONE PARTICIPATES.

1. How happy do you think you are?

2. Old people tend to say “the happy ones never get sick” To what extent do you agree?
3. What do you think are useful categories to measure happiness?
4. How technological do you think you are?
5. How can someone measure technology?

6. HOW HAPPY ARE YOU?

1. Work in the same group.

2. Now make a list of five categories to measure happiness and five categories to measure technology (ie:
Happiness; money, sleep, love… Technology: investment, willingness, availability ...).
3. Then have everyone in the group give a score for each category (1=very happy, 2=happy, 3=ok, 4=not very
happy).
4. How happy is your group?
5. Have two members of the group present your categories and results to the class.