| LESSON OVERVIEW
The worksheet is based on an article about the happiest country (Finland) in the world and consists of various exercises.
DISCUSSION & READING
First, students get a list of countries and need to rank them according to how happy they think these countries are. You can ask them to explain their choice depending on how much time you can spend on the task. Then, they read a text about the happiest country in the world. Their task is to decide whether the given sentences are true or false.
READING & VOCABULARY
There is one more exercise connected with the text. First, students look at the highlighted words in the text and try to work out their meanings from the context. Next, they have to match the highlighted words from the text to the correct meanings we prepared. Finally, students write five questions with new words, and ask and answer them in pairs.
All that is based on the World Happiness Report that measures how happy the citizens of over 150 countries are.
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love the idea of the worksheet! Thanks for creating it;) As Lithuania was considered one of the happiest countries in the world for people under 30, I thought it would be fun to maybe update the worksheet to match today’s statistics;) just a thought!
Also, the ppt has the correct order of the countries to list, they are not scrambled. Not sure if that was the intention;)
Thanks for the comment – we fixed the error in the e-lesson plan that you have mentioned. That wasn’t supposed to look like that 🙂
In terms of updating the worksheet, probably we could do that since the article looks at data from 2019 but what you mentioned is a great idea to personalize the lesson for your students. It’d be a great conversation starter to say whether they feel happy or maybe even happier after learning how high their country is 🙂
Thanks for your response and the new ppt – appreciate it!
Yes, I did use the chance to talk about Lithuania as the happiest country – and the student couldn’t believe it;)
Thank you for a lesson that generated a lot of conversation! It was interesting to look at the chart and examine where the student’s own country ranked on the list. The vocabulary provided a good level of challenge for my student as well.
Thanks, Stephanie!