Watch the presentation below, and fill the gaps in the following short summary of the first 2 minutes.
Aristotle called happiness the ______ ______, the end towards which all other things aim. The reason we want a big house, a nice car or a good job isn’t that these things are intrinsically ______, it’s that we expect them to bring us happiness. The paradox of happiness is that even though the ______ conditions in our lives have improved ______, we haven’t actually gotten any happier. In the last few years there’s been an ______ in research on happiness; we’ve learnt how things like income, education, ______ and ______ relate to it.
my answer:
1.chief good
2.valuable
3.objective
4.dramatically
5.explosion
6.gender
7.marriage
Posted by: Maral | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 09:29
1.chief good
2.valuable
3.objective
4.dramatically
5.explosion
6.gender
7.marriage
Posted by: ASD | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 09:32
chief good
valuable
objective
automatically
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: tertok | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:13
chief Good
-valuable
-objective
-automatically
-explosion
-gender
-marriage
Posted by: Aleksandra Bucholc | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 11:32
1. chief good
2. valuable
3. objectives
4. dramatically
5. explosion
7. gender
8. marriage
Posted by: chhu | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 12:00
Simon I taught the same topic to my ielts students in school. what a coincident!
Di :)
Posted by: Dee | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 12:04
1.chief good
2.valuable
3.objective
4.dramatically
5.explosion
6.gender
7.marriage
Posted by: Tereza | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 12:25
1-chief Good
2-Valuable
3-Objective
4-Dramatically
5-Explosion
6-Gender
7-Marriage
Posted by: Rashida Perveen | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 13:59
1-chief Good
2-Valuable
3-Objective
4-Dramatically
5-Explosion
6-Gender
7-Marriage
Posted by: Samah | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 15:16
Good choice of topic Di!
Posted by: SImon | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 15:26
Hi,my answers are:
Chief good
viable
objective
dramatically
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: Nafiseh | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 18:18
My answer are:
chief good
viable
objective
dramatically
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: Duong | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 03:14
chief goog
valuable
objective
dramatically
increase
gender
marriage
Posted by: tariq | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 10:30
chief good
valuable
objective
dramatically
increase interest
gender
marraige
Posted by: Rukhsar patel | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 11:55
chief good
valuable
objective
dramatically
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: Grace | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 13:30
chief good
valuable
objective
dramatically
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: semenchu | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 14:59
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
1. chief good
2. valuable
3. objective
4. dramatically
5. explosion
6. gender
7. marriage
Posted by: SImon | Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 15:07
hi Simon,
I cant watch your video on this site. Can you post the straight link that i can go for replacement?
Thank you so much for everything!!
Posted by: Lilly | Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 13:45
Hi Simon!I would like to ask how many points I have to achieve to get an 8 in the Listening test? That is what I need to get for the exam.Thanks!
Posted by: diane | Monday, November 19, 2012 at 07:02
Hi Simon,
I have a doubt on hypenated words and capital letters. what is the rule of above on listening section?
Posted by: Deepak | Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 05:29
chief good
valuable
objective
explosion
gender
marriage
Posted by: Farhana | Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 23:09
chief
good
valuable
objective
dramatically
exploration
gender
married
Posted by: umber | Thursday, December 06, 2012 at 14:07
Hi simon
1- Cheif good
2- Valuable
3- Objective
4-
5- Explosion
6- Gender
7- Mariage
Posted by: Mahsa | Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 12:21
1. chief good
2. valuable
3. objective
4. dramatically
5.explosion
6. gender
7. marriage
Posted by: Trang | Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 14:01
1 chief good
2 valuable
3 objective
4 dramatically
5 explosion
6 gender
7 marriage
Posted by: Wei | Tuesday, February 05, 2013 at 23:38
chief good
valuable
objective
dramatically
explosion
gender, marriage
Posted by: Arm | Thursday, February 07, 2013 at 07:42
chief good
valuable
objective
-
explosion
gender, marriage
Posted by: resad | Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 20:07