teacher writes the word happiness in the middle of the board and asks students to say words the come to their minds when they think of happiness.

Teacher shows the students a list of discourse markers and explains their use to introduce new topics in a lecture. Then asks them to listen to an introduction to a lecture, and according to the discourse markers write down the topics that the speaker is going to talk about. They might need to listen two or three times. students will check their answers together then, and then the teacher shows the answers on the slide. Then students watch the whole lecture and check the best option for the main idea on their booklets. Students listen again and take notes. Then check their notes with the options in the next part of the booklet. Then listen again and add up details to their notes and check the true false sentences on the booklet. they will check the answers with their partner and then teacher shows the answers on the board.

Teacher shows the list of discourse markers and the subtopics that students have already taken notes of and gives the students 2 mins to prepare and then give a presentation about happiness using their notes. Optional: students can give another presentation about happiness in their personal life.

teacher will write the great language and the language to improve on the board and asks students to correct their own errors.

the students listen to a discussion about happiness and do the practices on page 9. when all the agree/disagree phrases are learned, teacher plays the discussion again and pauses after each person gives a comment and asks the students to react by agreeing or disagreeing to that person. (one to one classes) optional: students can write a conversation about happiness and use the target language.