"If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it." Erma BombeckThis week, in class, we have been speaking about the benefits of laughter, which is said to be the best possible medicine. But before discussing the advantages of a good laugh, let's have a look at the dictionary:
laugh verb [intransitive]:
to make the sounds that show you are happy or amused
• His jokes always make me laugh.
• to laugh out loud
• to laugh out loud
laugh at sb/sth:
1 to show, by laughing, that you think sb/sth is funny
• The children laughed at the clown.
2 to show that you think sb is ridiculous
• Don't laugh at him. He can't help the way he speaks.
laugh noun [countable]
1 the sound or act of laughing
1 the sound or act of laughing
•We all had a good laugh at what he'd written.
laughter - noun [uncountable]
the sound or act of laughing
• Everyone roared with laughter.
(c) Oxford University Press
Now that we know exactly what "laughing" implies, would you like to learn about the benefits of laugher? Click here.
And students have even created their own Happiness Club. Here is an example of a Laughter Class (at the end of the recording the teachers speak in German, do not worry, you are not supposed to understand it)
Both groups (B & C) were required to create a Happiness Club taking into consideration the following points:
- a name for the club
- number of different rooms, areas or locations
- activities people can do in each space
- music, food, drink, furniture, decoration, etc
- any other ideas
WRITE A SUMMARY OF YOUR HAPPINESS CLUB IN THE "COMMENTS" SECTION.
Paco & Paloma, from the Intermediate 3C group, wrote this:
ReplyDeleteHi Leticia,
this is the corrected description of the club we've created:
Name: Music Lovers
Areas: the Club has three rooms/areas.
1) Audition room: here you can listen to any kind of music, use the music archive of the club, bring your own CDs and share them.
2) Playing room: in this room, the members of the club can play instruments (individually or with other members) and perform their own compositions. The rest of the members can give their opinion about the compositions.
3) Chatting room: this area is destinated to discuss about music in general, for example composers, instruments, history of music, styles or last news. It's possible to organize music activities like going to concerts or exhibitions. Club members can also drink or eat something in this room.
Decoration: the club is decorated with staves on the walls, pictures of musicians and hanging instruments.
We hope to see you soon enjoying in our music club, you're invited!
Good job!! Thanks to you both for being so quick!
ReplyDeleteHi Leticia:
ReplyDeleteThis is description about our idea of Club:
Name: THE PARADAISE OF LAUGHING
Number of rooms: Three
Leisure zone: One
This is the proyect:
1.- Relaxing room
Here people will listen to classical music. There are carpets on the floor, where them have a lie-in.
2.- Mirrors room
There are concave and conex mirrors on the walls, where the people will be able to look at they reflection. They will laugh at each other.
3.- Living room
There are some chairs and tables, where pleople will sit down to talk about their experiences, to swap stories and they to tell how they feel.
4.- Restaurants zone
With their new friends, they can visit our Paradaise Restaurant, and they will eat and drink our exquisite specialities.
Our motto is: “It is better laugh today, because tomorrow maybe you can´t do it”
Best regards:
Amparo, Leonor, Maria José y Maribel. B1- 3ª A
Hi Leticia,
ReplyDeleteThis is the description of the our club:
Name: Be Happy Club
Areas: The club has five rooms/areas.
1. In the first room, people can listen to and dance all kind of music. Also , people can meet other people. It's like a disco.
2.In the second room, people can do yoga and have a massage. It's a relaxing room.
3.Is a room where people meet for to eat and drink. It's a buffet.
4. the fourth room is a nursery.
5. The last room is a spa, where you can swim in their three swimmingpool whit diferent temperture.
It's an exclusive Club, where stressed people can after an hour with us, leeave the Club much more relaxed than before.
Paco & Paloma,
ReplyDeleteJust a comment on your description:
"destinated" is Spanglish. The English verb is "destined"
But again, good job!
Dear Maribel, Amparo, Leonor and Mª José,
ReplyDeleteGood job, thanks!! Just a couple of comments:
- "where THEY can have a lie-in" - remember that object pronouns can never be the subject of a sentence.
- "convex"
- "at THEIR reflection" Subject pronouns can never act as possessive adjectives.
- And remember. When you speak about "GENTE" in general, we say "PEOPLE" and not "THE PEOPLE"
Thanks!!
Thanks, Conchi!!! Good job!
ReplyDeleteJust a couple of comments:
- "IT is a room where people meet TO EAT AND DRINK". Use the To-inf to express purpose, not "FOR IF"
- "THEIR" swimming-pool. WHOSE???
- with "DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES"
- where people can, after an hour with us, leave...
Good job!
Aitor González Arbizu (3º C)and his group wrote:
ReplyDeleteLaughing People's going to be the name of our club. It's going to have different areas: at the entrance you can find a dressing room, a bar where you can have different kinds of tea and relaxing tisanes, and homemade cakes, pies and biscuits from all over the world recipes while you are listening to relaxing music [no punctuation and no verb here. It is not clear]. Everyday we will have different international food. You can connect in the WiFi zone. In this bar, you can find your laptop, smart phones, iPads... You can find a changing room to [to what?], and then, there is the Hamam, the jacuzzi, the massage rooms. In the garden we're going to have Zen area and a Place for activities with animals, for example disabled people riding a horse or touching deers, elks. This is an amazing experience for this kind of people. We are studying the possibility to go to an aquarium to see and touch the dolphins once or twice a month. We' re going to have a naturist zone in a separate part in the garden in summer.
The decoration will be minimalistic with soft and neutral colours.
Hi Leticia! Here you are the description of our club:
ReplyDeleteIts name is: S.P.H.E Association.
There are two principal areas: a bar and a theatre.
At the bar, people can drink, eat, talk, laugh.. etcetera.
In the theatre, people can act amazing scenes, and laugh acting and seeing the theatre.
The ambient of the club is created thanks to the original music ( which has no sense ), the varied of food ( there are a lot of good food who makes nicer the club), the drink ( there are no alcoholic drinks, because we know that we can enjoy us without it), and the funny decoration ( gnomes everywhere, nice pictures , clowns…).
To cheer up the children ( and adults too), there are a really funny person telling jokes, and a lot of humorists.
With this club, we pretend to relax everybody who comes here, and , of course, make of this a great experience!
Hi! Andoregu :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your description. Just a couple of comments:
- In the theatre, people can perform amazing scenes.
- The environment of the club...
- ...the variety of food...
- There is a lot of food that makes the club a nicer place.
- ...because we know we can have fun without it.
- There is a really funny person...
- With this club, we intend to help people to come here to relax...
Thank you!!
Jesús Montañes dijo:
ReplyDeleteHappy Club
The name of my happy club is Laugh Without Frontiers. This club is divided into four areas where different activities are practised.
The areas are the following:
Laughter club: this is an outdoor area. The place has a lot of different flowers. In this area people try laughing for no reason at all. (suggestion: this is an outdoor area, where there are different types of flowers and where people try…)
Comedy films area: this area consists of a big screen, some sofas, chairs, puffs and tables. In this place people watch comedy films and try make their own films.
Dancing area: This area has a bar and disco lights and people dance with positive music, play games and go to theme parties.
Happy news area: This place is decorated with tables, chairs and newspapers cut-outs. In this area people cut happy pieces of news out of newspapers and they read them [these happy pieces of news] and talk about them.
Thanks, Jesús!
Antonio Moreno and his group wrote:
ReplyDeleteToday is a very interesting day because of we´ve met up a group of friends and we are going to create a beautiful club
We´ve studied the options and we´ve decided to name it "The Happy Smile". We WERE about to call it the Big smile but
Peter kept that the first option was the best and he got to convince us.
This club is going to have 4 areas.
The first area: Day care.
Taking care kids while their parents are working in the club.
The second area: Enjoy Cooking
Teaching how to cook to all members to improve their diet
The third area: Funny Art
This area is dedicated to help other people, because we teach how to play instruments (guitar, piano, etc) dancing and singing and, afterwards, we make concerts to collect money and so, we can send it to other people with problems.
The fourth area: Relax Room
This place has some rooms with all type of devices to relax. We also have a SPA
These are the things that really make us happy
Our facilities are decorated in the Japanese style.