E n g L i s h jenni Currie Santamaria

Contractions
I’ll 
leave
later.
You’ll
He’ll
She’ll
It’ll
You’ll 
We’ll
They’ll
Contractions
I
won’t
leave
later.
You
He
She
It
You
We
They
Note: Do not use contractions with short answers that are afirmative.
Yes,
I will
.
(Correct) 
Yes, 
I’ll
.
(Incorrect)

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Sickness and Health
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B.
Use the grammar
Rewrite each sentence using the correct contraction.
1.
I will not be able to go shopping today.
2.
We will bring snacks to feed the children.
3.
You will have more energy if you eat more consistently throughout the day.
4.
We will eat a family meal once a day.
5.
She will only buy produce that has been grown locally.
6.
He will eat organic food whenever it’s possible.
7.
You will increase your iber intake by eating black beans.
8.
She will try to drink more water.
VI. READ IT AGAIN
Read the rules again. Answer the questions.
1.
Describe the kinds of food that make up a healthy diet.
2.
Why is it important to drink a lot of water?
HAPPINESS BOOSTERS
I. PRE-READING
A.
Background information
Mental Health
This excerpt is from the book 
Happier
,
 
by Dr. Ben-Shahar
. 
He has studied the 
nature of happiness and its effects on mental health. He claims that getting 
involved in meaningful activities can lead to a happier, more fulilling life.

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152
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Better Reading English
B.
Words to know before you read
Match the words to their definitions.
_____ 1.
boost 
a. spend time doing things that don’t 
require thought or effort
_____ 2.
impacts 
b. lacking in energy or will
_____ 3.
mindless 
c. to have a direct effect on
_____ 4.
conidence 
d. to make weak
_____ 5.
passion 
e. strong feeling of enthusiasm
_____ 6.
passive 
f. not intellectually challenging
_____ 7.
engaged 
g. belief that you can do something well
_____ 8.
vegetate 
h. to make full
_____ 9.
replenish 
i. to increase
_____ 10.
enervate 
j. greatly interested and involved
II. READ
Read the text. Mark the words you don’t know, but don’t stop reading to look 
them up.
Happiness Boosters: The Value of Free Time
Engaging in activities that are personally meaningful, impacts our experience in 
other areas, not directly related to these activities. The conidence, the passion, 
the sense of fulillment gained from such experiences spills over to other areas 
of our lives.
Meaningful and pleasurable activities can function like a candle in a dark 
room—and just as it takes a small lame or two to light up an entire physical 
space, one or two happy experiences during an otherwise uninspiring period 
can transform our general state (of mind). I call these brief but transforming 
experiences 
happiness boosters
—activities, lasting anywhere from a few 
minutes to a few hours, that provide us with both meaning and pleasure, both 
future and present beneit.
Happiness boosters can inspire and invigorate us, acting as both a 
motivational pull and a motivational push. For example, a meaningful weekend 
outing can change a person’s overall experience of life—including the hours 
spent at work. The outing can be motivating and pull the person through the 
week, giving her something to look forward to when she gets up for work in the 
morning. The same happiness booster can then energize her, providing her the 
push she needs by recharging her motivational stores for the following week.
Ideally, we want our entire day to be illed with happy experiences. This 
kind of life is not always attainable, though, and it might be that we need to 
wait until evenings or weekends to pursue activities that provide present and 
future beneit. One of the common mistakes people make is that in their free 

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