ISSUE 022

The Price of Happiness

What would you give up to feel a little happier?

A ready-to-teach English lesson exploring whether happiness has a hidden price and what people sacrifice for money, success, comfort, freedom, and a better life.

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People bidding with time, health, sleep, relationships, privacy, and freedom at an auction for happiness

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ABOUT THIS LESSON

People often chase happiness through higher salaries, successful careers, comfortable lifestyles, exciting experiences, and material possessions. However, every choice can carry a hidden cost.

This magazine-style English lesson explores the trade-offs people make in pursuit of happiness. It asks whether money can improve well-being and whether success is worth sacrificing time, sleep, health, relationships, privacy, or personal freedom.

Students read an original article, learn useful vocabulary, and take part in discussion, critical-thinking, speaking, and writing activities about happiness, priorities, ambition, work-life balance, money, success, and the meaning of a good life.

FROM THE ARTICLE

Happiness is often presented as something we can earn, buy, or achieve. Yet the pursuit of a better life can quietly cost us time, sleep, health, relationships, privacy, and freedom. The question is not only what makes us happy, but what we are willing to trade for it.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

Magazine-style student worksheet
Original article and audio recording
Vocabulary and reading activities
Discussion and critical-thinking tasks
Speaking challenge and writing prompt
Teacher guide and complete answer key
Classroom presentation

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