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Hello my amazing students.

Today we're going to.

Read a news article together.

From The Guardian.

And this article.

Is about the world's happiest.

Man.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course,

I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get.

Started.

1st I'll read.

The headline A 69 year old monk whose scientists called the World's Happiest Man says the Secret

to being happy takes just 15 minutes a day.

Do you have?

15.

Minutes a day.

Well.

You can become the.

World's happiest.

Person.

As well maybe.

Let's see in this article.

So first of all, notice a 69 year old.

This functions as an adjective because if you remove it, it's a monk who scientists

call.

Now we're giving more information.

You could use a nationality, a British monk.

Perhaps.

Now here they're using an age, a 69 year old.

We don't modify adjectives by making them singular or.

Plural.

That's.

Why there's no?

S So.

A 69 year old monk whose.

Scientists call the.

World's happiest man says.

The secret to.

Being notice.

This because it's the secret.

To something.

The secret to.

Learning English is what do you think?

The secret to.

Learning.

The secret to.

Becoming a confident English speaker is maybe the secret to learning English.

Is.

To watch.

Notice that infinitive.

To watch AJ Force English video a day, Because that's about 15 minutes a day.

So if.

You practice 15 minutes a day.

Well, then you'll be confident.

What do you think?

If you agree, put.

That's right.

That's right, Jennifer.

That's right, put.

That's right in the comments and you are going to learn what you can do in just 15 minutes

a day to become the world's happiest person.

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Now let's continue.

Who is the happiest?

Man in the world.

If you Google it.

The name Matthew.

Ricard pops up.

What do you?

Notice.

About how this.

Word is being used.

What?

Part of speech is this.

Of course, you know Google as a noun.

You use.

Google, but in this case it's being.

Used as a verb.

Which native speakers love doing?

Do you know who the happiest man in the world is?

Do you know who the best YouTube English teacher is?

Just Google it.

Google.

It.

So I'm using that as a verb in the imperative.

Now if.

You use Google.

As the noun, you would say.

Just look up.

And here.

Your verb is to look up the phrasal verb just.

Look up the answer on Google Now.

Remember Google is being used.

As a.

Verb so in the past simple, you would need.

That Ed, I googled, googled.

I googled it.

I searched for.

The answer on Google.

You can look up information on Google.

You can search for information on Google.

Or.

You can just.

Google.

It which makes you sound like a native.

Speaker.

Now also to make you sound like a native speaker, you can learn and use more.

Phrasal verbs like.

This one pop up the name Matthew.

Ricard pops up to pop up.

This is our phrasal verb.

This means to appear suddenly or unexpectedly, for example.

I was.

Watching AJ for his English video.

And my boss popped up.

So your boss appeared, but you.

Weren't expecting your boss and you were doing something you shouldn't have been doing.

You should have been working, but instead you were watching my video.

Thank you very much.

Because remember, this is a.

Verb.

So this is in the past.

Simple, my boss.

Popped up.

And isn't that always the?

Case.

Someone pops up when you least expect them to and when you definitely don't want them

to.

Let's continue.

Matthew Ricard 6, 9 Here they're saying his age, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally

from France.

Who has been?

Called the.

World's happiest.

Man, we already know this information.

It was summarized in the headline.

And they're just stating it in a different way.

That's.

Because he participated.

In a 12 year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the.

University of Wisk.

Gonson Notice this pronunciation.

Wisconsin.

Wisconsin.

Richard Davidson.

So this is the neuroscientist.

Who led the 12?

Year Brain study.

Ah, we have.

Another adjective.

Again, we know it's an adjective.

For one, it comes before the noun.

Which is study or?

Brain study.

You could consider brain to be another adjective which.

Tells you what type of.

Study and I.

Also know it's an adjective because there's no on the noun year because adjectives don't

take a singular or plural form.

And notice this preposition when you learn a new.

Word like to participate.

You should always learn how to use it in a full sentence.

Because you participate.

In something for example.

I would love.

To.

Participate in because this is something in the finely fluent Academy, which is.

A course that ioffer.

Now you.

Could say I would love to participate.

In the conference, in the meeting in the.

Course or whatever.

Else you're participating in, but that preposition in is.

Part of the verb to.

Participate in something.

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Lesson Davidson.

Remember, he's the neuroscientist who.

Led this study, Davidson hooked up Ricard's head to.

200.

56.

Sensors.

Hook.

Up is another phrasal verb.

Very useful because.

It means to link or connect.

Now the verb is.

Hooked.

So that's what you conjugate here in the past simple and then the preposition is up.

But remember, just like participate in, you need to understand the full grammar to.

Be able to use this because you hook.

Something up to something else, and you link something to something else.

You connect something to something else.

So this.

Preposition too is very important now.

We use this a lot with technology where.

Should we hook up?

The modem.

Where should we?

Connect the modem.

Oh, maybe hook it up?

Right here, this is a great spot.

Or hook it up.

Over there and you can use this with.

A lot of.

Electronic devices, Davidson.

Hooked up Ricard's head to 200.

56 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was unusually

light.

Ricard who says he.

Sometimes meditates for entire days without getting bored.

Immense.

He's a generally happy person.

Let's.

Look at this.

Without getting.

Bored.

Let's review to get bored.

You could also say to.

Become bored native.

Speakers prefer.

Get, but you can also say become in this case getting.

It's used in the ING form because.

Without is a.

Preposition and we use the gerund verb after prepositions to get or become bored.

This means that you lose interest so he can meditate for entire days.

Without.

Losing interest without getting bored, without becoming bored.

Now I could say.

I hope you.

Don't get bored in this lesson.

I hope you don't lose interest now.

Get refers to the transition from, not.

Bored to, bored, Interested to.

Not interested.

That's how we use GET.

Or become now to talk about your current state.

Just.

Use the verb to be to be bored, but hopefully.

You say.

Don't worry, Jennifer, I'm not.

Bored.

Bored.

Bored.

I'm not bored.

To be.

As a contraction and then you're negative.

I'm not.

Bored.

Hopefully you would say that.

But you could also.

Be honest and say this lesson is boring, so notice here.

The structure is to be.

Boring to be boring and this means not interesting.

Now if something is boring not interesting, then.

You will be.

Bored.

OK, I'm bored.

This lesson is boring.

So the result.

I'm bored.

So to be bored.

Describes your current state, because something or someone, hopefully not me or my lesson,

is boring.

So hopefully you would say this.

Please reassure me, Put this in the comments.

I'm not bored.

I'm not bored.

And if you are.

Bored.

Please be honest and let me know what can I do to make this lesson less boring, so therefore

more interesting.

OK?

He admits he's a generally happy person, so generally happy by using generally it includes.

It acknowledges that sometimes he's not happy, but mainly, mostly.

He is happy.

Generally happy person.

Although he feels his.

Happiest man title is a media driven overstatement.

An overstatement means that something is exaggerated.

The way it's stated is.

More than the truth.

It exceeds the truth.

You are the world's happiest.

Man, really?

Am I really the?

World's.

Happiest man or does that?

Exceed.

The reality is that exaggerated.

He says.

It's a.

Media driven overstatement.

So media driven means driven by the media.

And if it's driven by the media, it means it's influenced by the media.

It only exists because of articles like this.

Headlines like this.

Who say he's the world's?

Happiest man the.

Media created this.

Here's his advice for how.

To be happy.

All right, we've come to.

His advice?

So.

Pay close attention.

This is the interesting part.

You shouldn't be bored right now.

Stop thinking.

Me.

Me.

Me.

Me.

Me.

Me.

Notice how it's.

Me and not I stop thinking.

I I, I because the subject is I I.

Want to I need to.

I like this I.

Don't like this.

I'm bored.

But the.

Expression in English uses me.

Here's how you could use this in a real context, because native speakers do use this.

It was supposed.

To be a group brainstorming session, but Richard talked the entire time it was.

Me.

Me.

Me.

Now notice when you say.

Me.

Me.

Me.

You probably say it with a.

Little bit of an attitude.

Because.

It's a negative thing.

Oh, it was me, me, me the whole time.

But even though the person is saying.

Me.

Me.

Me.

He's actually talking about Richard, so it's imagining that Richard was saying.

Me.

Me.

Me.

It's all about me, but I'm.

Richard So even though we vocalize it as.

Me, me, me.

We're often referring to another person, and this just means.

Yourself.

So stop.

Thinking about yourself or in the context of Richard, stop thinking.

He should stop thinking about himself is not all.

Me.

Me.

Me.

All right, so that's the first thing.

Stop thinking.

Me, me, me.

Stop thinking.

About yourself.

Hmm.

What do you think about that?

That's the secret.

To being happy.

To Ricard.

The answer comes down to altruism.

Notice the pronunciation.

Here we have the.

Word true.

ISM.

Put that together.

Truism.

Truism.

That's a truism.

That's something that is.

True.

And then you add OWL, OWL, Altruism, altruism, altruism.

This is the noun, and it's when you're more focused on others than yourself.

The adjective would be altruistic.

But the noun is altruism, so the answer comes down to altruism.

Notice how something the answer comes down to.

When something comes down to something, it means that it's the most important factor

or consideration.

So he's saying that altruism is the most important factor or consideration of being happy now.

You could say.

Successfully learning English.

This is the.

First, something successfully learning English comes down to I have comes.

Because this is.

Conjugated as it.

It or this so.

Jaron statements are always conjugated as.

It or this?

In the singular.

This it.

Comes down to.

Now you.

Can have two things, a noun motivation, or you can have a jaron verb being motivated

and I honestly believe.

This is true because.

If you have a strong enough motivation.

You will do what it takes.

To successfully learn English.

But if you're not that committed, then you just won't put in the time and effort that's

required.

But that's my personal opinion.

The reason is so the reason why altruism is so important to happiness.

The reason is because thinking.

About yourself.

Me.

Me.

Me.

About yourself.

And how to make things better?

For yourself.

All the time is exhausting, stressful, and ultimately leads to unhappiness.

Interesting perspective.

Notice how I just said interesting perspective.

You could say like I did.

Interesting perspective.

The.

Full sentence would be that's an that.

Is what you just said.

That's an interesting perspective.

That's an interesting point.

That's an interesting opinion and you can add on or simply say.

I've never thought about it like that before.

I've never thought about it like that before.

Which is a very common thing to say when learning, hearing, receiving new information if you

want to be happy.

Which, of course, we all.

Do if you want to be happy.

Ricard says you should strive to be.

Benevolent, which will not only make you.

Feel better.

But it will also make others.

Like you better?

The verb strive means to try.

Really hard strive.

To be benevolent.

Try really hard.

To be benevolent.

And when you're benevolent, you're kind.

You have goodwill.

Towards others.

You have this desire to help others.

It's similar to altruism, but altruism.

Is entirely focused.

On others, but they are quite similar.

Strive.

To be benevolent, which will not only make you feel.

Better, but it will.

Also make others.

Like you better?

Well of.

Course, if you're kind to.

Others, they'll like you better.

If you have a desire to help others, they'll like you better.

That makes sense.

Right.

Would you agree?

That's not to.

Say you should let other.

People take advantage of you, Ricard warns.

But you should generally.

Strive to be.

Kind within reason.

So again, generally this means most of the time, but of.

Course there.

May be situations where you're not benevolent.

You are thinking me, me, me, but generally you.

Should strive to.

Be kind, within reason, within reason is saying that you'll act in a way that sensible or.

Practical.

Practical.

So someone might say we'll do everything we can to help you.

Within reason they're saying, well, I'm not going to.

Break a law to help you.

I'm not.

Going to spend millions of dollars or maybe even hundreds of dollars.

To help you, it has to be.

Reasonable.

A reasonable amount of help.

But we'll do everything we can to help you.

Within reason.

OK, so.

How does one train their mind?

To be happier.

The ultimate question Are you ready for it?

Just spend 15 continuous minutes.

A day.

Thinking happy thoughts?

Well, how simple.

Is that you have 15 minutes a day and you can think.

Happy thoughts, right?

Now, continuous means without stopping.

So don't think happy thoughts for three minutes and then go back to being stressed and overwhelmed

and oh, I'm never going to learn English.

My English is terrible.

Are those happy?

Thoughts.

No, they're not.

So don't think 3 minutes of happy thoughts, 7 minutes of unhappy thoughts, Three more

minutes of happy thoughts.

It means 15 continuous minutes.

Set your timer for 15 minutes and only think happy.

Thoughts that would be?

Continuous.

What do you think if the?

Secret to.

Being happy truly is spending 15 continuous minutes a day thinking happy thoughts.

Is that something that you can do if it?

Is PUT that's doable this?

Is how a.

Native.

Speaker would say.

I can do that, that's.

Doable.

So if your boss asks you, can you finish this by 5:00 PM?

Yep.

That's doable.

That's doable I.

Can do that.

I have the ability to do that.

So what do you think?

Is this doable?

But.

That's doable.

That's doable.

I can do it.

That's doable.

Put that.

In the comments And now you have the secret to happiness.

How awesome is that?

Now what I'll do is I'll read the article from start to finish and this time you can

focus on my pronunciation.

A 69 year old monk whose scientists.

Called the World.

'S happiest man says the secret to being happy takes.

Just.

15 minutes a day.

Who is the?

Happiest man in the world.

If you Google it.

The name Matthieu Ricard pops up.

Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk originally from France who has been called.

The.

World's happiest man.

That's because he participated.

In a 12 year brain study on meditation and compassion led by a neuroscientist from the

University of Wisconsin, Richard Davidson, Davidson hooked up.

Ricard's head.

To 256 sensors and found that when Ricard was meditating on compassion, his mind was

unusually light.

Ricard, who says he sometimes meditates for entire days without getting bored, admits

he's a generally happy person.

Although he feels.

His.

Happiest man title is a media driven overstatement.

Here's his advice for how to be happy.

Stop thinking.

Me.

Me.

Me.

To Ricard, the answer comes down to altruism.

The reason is because thinking about yourself and how to make things.

Better for yourself.

All the time is exhausting, stressful and ultimately leads to unhappiness if you want

to be happy.

Ricard says you should strive to be.

Benevolent, which will not only make you.

Feel better.

But it will also make.

Others like you better.

That's not to.

Say you should let other people take.

Advantage of you, Ricard warns.

But you should generally strive to be kind within reason.

OK, so how?

Does one train their mind to be happier?

Just spend 15 continuous minutes a day thinking happy thoughts.

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