Remember good things in your life. (Count your blessings)

Happiness journal.Many EFL/ESL teachers ask students to keep journals.  I ask mine to keep "happiness journals". About once a week, they reflect on the good things that are happening in their lives.  I don't ask them to do this daily. I don't want the "happiness homework" to become drudgery. Rather, I want it to help them "mentally recycle" and re-experience the positive events. My students get extra credit for doing  this.

Our positive web is an intermediate level vocabulary activity that focusses on personal experience and positive adjectives. 

My top 5  has students think and talk about good events in the past year.  (10 minutes for happiness)

Someone special is a short speaking activity about someone is is special in the learner's life. (10 minutes for happiness)

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