Assignment C - Part 2.i
Authentic Text
✓ Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
✓ Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
✓ If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
✓ Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
✓ If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
Here’s how much money you need to
be happy, according to a new analysis
by wealth experts
P u bl i sh ed Mo n, No v 2 0 20 1 7 11 :4 3 AM ES T U pd ate d M o n, N o v 20 20 1 7 11 :4 3 AM E S T
Emmie Martin
@ E MM I EM AR T IN
The idea that money can’t buy happiness has been disproved by science, at
least up to a point. Experts say that happiness does increase with wealth, but
the correlation peaks at earning $75,000 per year.
“The lower a person’s annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier
he or she feels. But no matter how much more than $75,000 people make, they
don’t report any greater degree of happiness,” Time reported in 2010, citing a
study from Princeton University conducted by economist Angus Deaton and
psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
However, a new analysis from Town & Country’s Norman Vanamee contends
that it takes more to achieve “optimal contentment.” Much, much more.
Vanamee set out to determine how the amount that “allowed you to pursue your
personal passions — join the board of a philanthropy, support the arts, avoid
flying out of Newark ever again — but didn’t make you question the intentions of
friends and otherwise consume your life.”
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Authentic Text
✓ Check the Class Description and Notes on Part 2 on the assignment platform before you begin.
✓ The text should be 500 - 700 words long. (4-5 minutes for listening texts).
✓ In this document, provide a copy of the reading text or a transcript of the listening text you
have chosen.
✓ Ensure the text is referenced, and if you have selected a listening text or video, provide a link.
✓ If you choose a reading text, you can shorten and/or adapt it slightly.
✓ Please supply a copy of the original and your adapted version.
✓ If you have adapted the text, briefly explain the decisions you've made about changing the text
in section b) of the essay.
✓ Highlight 12 vocabulary items (words or phrases) which would be useful to pre-teach.
Here’s how much money you need to
be happy, according to a new analysis
by wealth experts
P u bl i sh ed Mo n, No v 2 0 20 1 7 11 :4 3 AM ES T U pd ate d M o n, N o v 20 20 1 7 11 :4 3 AM E S T
Emmie Martin
@ E MM I EM AR T IN
The idea that money can’t buy happiness has been disproved by science, at
least up to a point. Experts say that happiness does increase with wealth, but
the correlation peaks at earning $75,000 per year.
“The lower a person’s annual income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier
he or she feels. But no matter how much more than $75,000 people make, they
don’t report any greater degree of happiness,” Time reported in 2010, citing a
study from Princeton University conducted by economist Angus Deaton and
psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
However, a new analysis from Town & Country’s Norman Vanamee contends
that it takes more to achieve “optimal contentment.” Much, much more.
Vanamee set out to determine how the amount that “allowed you to pursue your
personal passions — join the board of a philanthropy, support the arts, avoid
flying out of Newark ever again — but didn’t make you question the intentions of
friends and otherwise consume your life.”
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