FIRST EXAM INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH SKILLS SEPT 2ND

LISTENING SECTION: "An introduction to a lecture". Are the sentences true or false?

1. Positive psychology focuses on people's problems.

• TRUE

• FALSE

2. The teacher asks the students to define a happy life.

• TRUE

• FALSE

3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi believes that external events are the main things that make us happy or sad.

• TRUE

• FALSE

4. Csikszentmihalyi believes that a happy life means being very focused on what you do.

• TRUE

• FALSE

5. Csikszentmihalyi studied depression, and from there learned about happiness.

• TRUE

• FALSE

6. Flow means being completely absorbed in what you are doing.

• TRUE

• FALSE

7. Csikszentmihalyi was influenced by watching creative people.

• TRUE

• FALSE

8. The rest of the lecture will look at what other psychologists think of this theory.

• TRUE

• FALSE

9. Put the topics in the order they are mentioned.

1. What makes a happy life?

2. Csikszentmihalyi and his work

3. An outline of the rest of the lecture

4. The difference between psychology and positive psychology

5. Examples of flow

6. One definition of a happy life