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1.4.    What are the things in your daily life that bring you happiness?

•    achievement at school,

•    good relationships with people,

•    feeling secure,

•    happy family life,

® fashionable clothes,

•    not having a problem/problems you know your colleagues have.

1.5.    Is it possible to be happy without other people? Would you feel happy living alone in a remote pi

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No it is not, because:

•    we are sometimes referred to as 'social animals', meaning that we function better in groups;

•    it has been proved that companionship and social support are vital to our psychologicai mental health. This is perhaps why married people live longer;

•    people who spend morę time with others usually enjoy better health and are generally ha than those who don’t.

The rapid development of information technology is said to have been affecting our reading habits. D< read as much as you used to a few years ago? Has anything really changed in the way you read?

2.1. Which of these kinds of books or types of texts do you read or use veiy often, quite often, sel hardly ever and never?

adventure novel • atlas • autobiography • biography ■ cookery book • course book • detective novel • diary • dictionary • directory • drama • e-book • encyclopaedia • fable ♦ fairy-tale • grammar book • guidebook • historical novel • lexicon • love story • magazine • manuał • morał novel • newspaper • novel • poetry • psychological novel • reference book • romance • saga • satire • science fiction • short story ♦ spy story • textbook • thriller • war novel

2.2.    Which of the following describes the way(s) you often read?

browse:    to look through the pages of a book, magazine, etc. without a particular

purpose, just looking at the most interesting parts devour: to read greedily without being able to stop

dip into: to read short parts of a book, magazine etc., but not the whole thing

read from cover to cover: to read literally every word of a book

refer to: consult a book only on specific points

scan: to read quickly looking for specific pieces of information

skim: to read quickly for generał meaning

skip: to miss out a section or sections of a book

2.3.    How do you choose the books you read? Do you choose:

•    the 'classics' only so that you are always certain of a good read;

- books which have been awarded literary prizes;

•    books which experts like, because you follow reviews in the newspapers or on the Internet;

•    any book in a bookshop or a library that looks interesting from the cover;

•    only books that someone you trust has read and recommended to you;

•    books dealing with problems you are interested in;

•    books which have been written by trendy authors;

•    a special genre of literaturę for reading.