The first actitivity of this year is taken from the excellent webpage Film English by Kieran Donaghy. This lesson is designed around a beautiful short film which was inspired by Be Happy: A Little Book to Help You Live a Happy Life by Monica Sheehan. Following Kieran’s lesson instructions students speak and write about happiness, and watch a short video. As homework students write a short composition titled: What I do to live a happy life
Watch the film on Vimeo.
@students: post your composition in commento.
Who doesn't want live a happy life? I think that it is the most important goal of our life. A lot of people think that the only important thing to have a happy life is to be rich. It’s really wrong. There are a lot of rich people that don’t know how to be happy. I don’t know if I completely understand this but I think that all the things that I need to live a happy life are not so expensive. First of all I need to be myself, I need to do all the things that I love, like playing basketball, doing excursion, go to the sea, ride my bike in the mountain etc.
RispondiEliminaI need to love a lot all the components of my family. This love has to be returned from our family. For example it’s very important for me when my mum or my grandma said to me “I love you”. It makes me important and consequently it makes me happy.
I feel happy, also when I share something with friends, when I share something with someone because I don’t like so much to be alone. There are some moments when I need to be alone but only if it’s very necessary. For example for some type of homework I need to be completely alone.
I feel happy when I’m very grateful to my life. Sometimes I don’t understand how lucky I am to do something or to have something. When this summer I had an accident in the sea I was very grateful from my life. I thought a lot how lucky I’ve been to not be dead on the sea.
One last important thing that make me happy is to eat healthy. I don’t know why but it’s very important for me. If I don’t eat healthy I have some kind of debt with my body because I know that is not healthy for it. So if I don’t do this I’m aware that I can’t pretend a lot from it if I don’t treat it healthy.
To live a happy life I play football and I go always to the sea, because they have been my passions since I was a child.
RispondiEliminaBut doing these activities on my own it is so bored; in fact I would like to stay also with my friends.
With them I enjoy myself: we joke, we have fun and we laugh a lot. They are fantastic.
Staying with family is also fantastic because I think the family is the most important thing for the heart. I love my family.
What i do for live a happy life”
RispondiEliminaI’m not the kind of girl that need to be at the center of attention or go shopping for be happy.
For be happy I need little things
For first I’m really happy when I make other people smile or laugh,just doing stupid things , because if I make laugh my friends, my mum or someone, doesn't matter if other people think that I’m strange or stupid, if they are happy i’m happy too.
Another thing that I do for be happy is eat ITALIAN food because I really love it and I think that is the best food in the world, I don’t understand people that eat just for survive I eat because I love what I’m eating.
For be happy I also travel, because I want to discover what’s out there, I want to see new culture, met new people and confront with them, and I think that the best way to do it is travel.
I love stay alone, in particular be still under the water, I know that is strange but when i’m under the water I feel like I don't exist, like I'm Invisible for few second and this is so relaxing.
Reading book makes me happy because while i’m reading I’m no more Ashia Diana but i can be katniss everdeen, or margo roth spiegelman, and in this way I can live more than one life.
This is what make me happy!
-Ashia Diana 3ªSS
Rosangela Demurtas
RispondiEliminaWhat I do to live a happy life
To live a happy life I should enjoy more my age staying more with my friends, going out more and being more open to new things. But I should also focus more on myself, without paying attention to what others are doing or what they think. A very important thing is to think about my education, travel and read a book . Finally, a very important thing is to live in a positive environment and to be surrounded by good people that can give you love.
It takes little to be happy. Being a sportswoman, sport makes me feel good, because I just focus on improving and I feel free. My best friend, the only one who knows everythings about me, it makes me feel good. The weather is absolutely the regulatory of my happiness, because when it’s sunny I become relaxed and I’m ready to do everythings. Dancing and listening to music is what I prefer to do in my free time.
RispondiEliminaI like stay with my grandfather and talk with him about what he did when he was a child. I really like to cook try new recipes and make them taste my family. My dream is to open a restaurant, because cooking makes me feel creative and makes me feel good.
To live a happy life, first of all, I take care of myself and my health. For me it’s important to have a healthy body, play sport and eat healthy, but it’s also important to have relaxing moments.
RispondiEliminaYou need to be engaged in your sport to achieve goals. When I reach them I feel really happy. This happens only if you have passion. To be happy I need to have a passion.
I laugh very often and also, I try to make people laugh. I think laughing is basic in life.
In fact I prefer to be with people who make me laugh because they make me happy. I try to avoid negative people, because I get bored.
This is what I do to live a happy life.
What I do to live a happy life.
RispondiEliminaIn my life there are many things that make me happy and that derives from my family and my friends. I have a strong bond with my friends and with them I spend most of my free time and I do the things that make me happier. With them I like go to the beach and there we spend whole days under the sun. Often we go shopping or we go to the disco and we enjoy so much. In winter, when it's too cold to go to the beach I like being at home and watch films under a blanket maybe with a hot chocolate. Many friends of mine share with me the passion for volleyball and that make this sport even funnier. I love doing sports, every sport except curling because it's very boring. My family makes my life happier. They have passed me love for animals, in particular for cats. In fact one component of our family is an awesome cat, Sky. Since I was young they have allowed me to travel and so I had many beautiful experiences. I enjoy my life!
What i do to live a happy life
RispondiEliminaTo be happy I not trying hard.
To live a happy life I spend a lot of time with my family and with my friends, I love them.
To feel well I train, I do athletics.
In my free time I love to take pictures. It makes me happy, especially when I make nice pictures.
I really like reading books and watching movies.
I listen to a lot of music, of different kinds and from different periods.
also in my spare time I write and I draw something in my notebook.
This makes me feel good, it relaxes me.
What I Do To Live A Happy Life?
RispondiEliminaWell, to live a happy life I try to don’t get angry, because it will completely change my day. I try to resolve my problems in the easiest way, because every problem has a easy way to be solved. I try to don’t get sad, something’s gone wrong, ok, nothing is lost, I can do it better tomorrow, just don’t get anxious. I try to help the people when they ask me, they’ll get happy, then I’ll get happy. I try to surround myself with friends, nobody wants to be alone. I need to have freetime every day, I can’t be occupied every second of my life, I’ll get crazy. I just try to live my life in the easiest possible way, because a life lived with anxiety, it’s a bad life.
Fabio Perra 3 A ss
RispondiEliminaMy philosophy of life
I think that a person to live happy needs not too much things. If you come back home after a day at the office and you found someone that loves you ( a mum, a dad, a son...), you are happy... If you are hungry and your mum cooks for you something good, you are happy... If you've passed a bad moment and someone takes you up, you become happy.
I think that happiness is in little things, things that we can found everyday if we want. You aren't happy if you hate, you have to takes good things from simple things. This is my philosophy of life. I'm happy when I travel, I'm happy when I'm with my friends, I'm happy when I eat pizza, I'm happy when my team wins. I try to found happiness in every thing, doing this I think that my life will be an happy life.
I don't need a lot of money to be happy, I just need that my life is full of experiences, friends and good things.
Alberto Grussu 3A
RispondiEliminaTo live a happy life I go out with my friends in the centre of Oristano, because they make me feel very good. I listen to music in my bedroom, for example rock, pop, rap and reggae. I’m very happy when I play football with my friends, football is my favourite sport, I love it. I also do skateboarding, for me it is a very beautiful sport. These things make me very happy, I love them.
Clara Cadau 3°A ss
RispondiEliminaWhat I do to live a happy life
To live a happy life I stay with people that makes me happy.
I stay with my family because I have grown with them. But I stay especially with my friends, because they’re the family who I choose.
To be happy I help others and I would be kind with people.
When I’m alone I listen to music or I read good books. I like also watching films or tv series, but I read books is the best thing, because with the film I see the story, with the book I imagine that.
And if it will be possible, I would travel.
Whereas I don’t waste time with wrong people and I don’t be rude or bad with others.
To have a happy life, I would live in peace with myself and with others.
“What I do to live a happy life”
RispondiEliminaTo live a happy life I play football with my friends because I love football and it make me very happy. I sleep a lot every day because when I come back from the training I’m very tired and I need a good night’s sleep.
In winter I watch a film in the bed or in the sofa and I relax.
I listen to music when I’m alone at home, because I love music, especially acoustic music.
In summer I spend a lot of time with my friends, we go to the sea and we play many sports like beach volley, beach soccer or “schiaccia 7”. Sometimes, in the night we go to the disco and we have a lot of fun
Another thing that makes me happy is travel but in this period I’m not traveling a lot.
In the free time I stay with people that makes me happy like my family and my friends.I think the family and the health are the most important things to live a happy life.
To live a happy life I like to do little things.
RispondiEliminaFirst, I’m happy when I’m doing sports, in fact I do sport every day. I like
training because I meet my friends and I’m keep me fit. But especially
because sport in general is my passion.
To be happy, I go out with my friends, with them I always have lot fun.
To make me happy I spend some time with my family, because I love my
sisters and my parents.
I like eating every things except vegetable because they are too healthy.
What I do to live a happy life
RispondiEliminaThe first thing I need to do to live a happy live is to play football, because i love it, but I love to do any sports in general. Another thing that I do to live a happy life is stay with my friends, and especially, with my family. In the summer I love to go to the sea with them. Always talking about sports, makes me happy to run too and to win some races. For the future I hope to find a job that I like and to be healty.
What I do to live a happy life.
RispondiEliminaTo live a happy life I play football with my friends at Team Tharros because I love football. In free time I watch Tv and read books, but when I have nothing to do I play with my dog.
When I stay with my family I like to talk about food and travel. In this summer, Me and my family went travel in Genova by ours cousins. I think the family is the most important thing to live a happy life.
Also I like to go at the sea in summer and I like to go to the mountain in winter. I listen to music while I’m in the bus and when I’m alone at home, because I love music; rap is my favourite.
This is what I do to live a happy life!
Form live a happy life I think it's very important have a lot of good friends, because they can help you every time you need help. It's also very important be kind with they, or you risk to lost your friends.
RispondiEliminaI think it's very important play sports, because you stay a lot of time in contact with other people and the sports help you to socialize.
Have some dreams and some goals in my life, for me, is a very important things, because I think they give a purpose at your life.
Finally I think it's very important to travel because you can know a lot of new things about other countries and different people.
This is what I do to live a happy life.
Simona Murru
RispondiEliminaThe thing that does me happy in the life is the sport, because sport is my life.It helps me to face life. it’s the things that makes me willpower and courage.
My passion is basketball. When I play basket in the gym I’m another person. When I have the ball in my hands I’m more sociable and I'm more self confident, and this makes me happy.
Of course I hope to play many possible years. When it won’t be possible anymore I want to work in the world of the sport and teach it. Because the sport teaches the fundamental values of life. And there isn't anything more beautiful for me than transmit my passion.
For be happy in my life I should be polite with everyone and it's such an important think to have a good health and helping others. I'd like to travel the word nonetheless to travel I would need a job so I could afford travels. It's such an important thing, for me, to hang out with my friends and going to the beach with them for enjoy my self. However the thing that makes me the happiest person in the word is playing football
RispondiEliminaDa parte di Andrea Deias
What I do to live a happy life.
RispondiEliminaMaurizio Sanna
In my opinion to have a happy life you must enjoy every moment as if it were your last, because life is important. We need to help people who need it, because not everybody is as lucky as us, playing sports is important to have good health, around the world, achieve their goals.
I believe that to live a happy life you must enjoy every moment as if it were the last, it is necessary to appreciate the little things and do not expect things we can not have, because there is someone who has less and less of us and things we would like to have.