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Happiness can break your heart too
5th March, 2016
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Contents
The Article 2 Discussion (Student-Created Qs) 14
Warm-Ups 3 Language Work (Cloze) 15
Before Reading / Listening 4 Spelling 16
While Reading / Listening 5 Put The Text Back Together 17
Match The Sentences And Listen 6 Put The Words In The Right Order 18
Listening Gap Fill 7 Circle The Correct Word 19
Comprehension Questions 8 Insert The Vowels (a, e, i, o, u) 20
Multiple Choice - Quiz 9 Punctuate The Text And Add Capitals 21
Role Play 10 Put A Slash ( / ) Where The Spaces Are 22
After Reading / Listening 11 Free Writing 23
Student Survey 12 Academic Writing 24
Discussion (20 Questions) 13 Homework 25
Answers 26
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THE ARTICLE
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Scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make us brokenhearted.
Happy events can also be bad for our heart. A broken heart is an actual
medical condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we
love does not return that love. We get broken heart syndrome when we
are highly stressed. We also get it during emotional times, such as a
relationship breakup, the death of family and friends, or the loss of a job.
The medical name for this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers
say people can get TTS, and even be at risk of sudden death, when very
happy things happen. The doctors who discovered this have called it
"happy heart syndrome".
The researchers' study was published in the European Heart Journal on
Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri
analysed data from 1,750 patients who suffered from Takotsubo
Syndrome. The sufferers were from nine different countries. They found
485 patients got TTS because of an emotional happening. Twenty of
these had TTS because of a happy or joyful event. The patients had heart
problems after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports
team winning a game, and the birth of a grandchild. Dr Ghadri said our
body and brain may think happy and sad events are similar, so both can
result in Takotsubo Syndrome.
Sources: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-happiness-heart.html
http://www.healthaim.com/happy-heart-syndrome-scientists-find-happiness-can-break-heart-kill-
people/43668#ixzz41q69o85e
http://www.livescience.com/53919-broken-heart-syndrome-linked-to-positive-emotions.html
Level 3 Happiness can break your heart too – 5th March, 2016
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WARM-UPS
1. BROKEN HEARTS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students
about broken hearts. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will
the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?
scientists / brokenhearted / medical condition / emotional / relationship / doctors /

published / experts / patients / joyful / heart problems / birthday party / grandchild
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
3. EMOTIONAL TIMES: How can people get over these? Complete this table with
your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.
How to help?
Relationship breakup
Death in a family
Job loss
Serious illness
Bullying
Depression
4. DON'T WORRY: Students A strongly believe we shouldn't worry about happy

heart syndrome; Students B strongly believe we should. Change partners again and talk
about your conversations.
5. HAPPY: Rank these with your partner. Put the happiest at the top. Change partners
often and share your rankings.
• birth of a grandchild • your favourite meal

• winning the lottery • a first date
• getting married • sports team winning
• graduating from university • going on holiday
6. MEDICAL: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate
with the word "medical". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them.
Together, put the words into different categories.
BEFORE READING / LISTENING
1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
a. Scientists say only sad things break our heart. T/F

b. A broken heart isn't a real medical condition. T/F
c. Stress can give us "broken heart syndrome". T/F
d. Doctors discovered a condition called "happy heart syndrome". T/F
e. Doctors looked at data from less than 2,000 people. T/F
f. Doctors found 485 people with happy heart syndrome. T/F
g. Doctors say someone could get happy heart syndrome from a wedding. T/F
h. Our brain treats happy and sad events very differently. T/F
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1. actual a. report
2. return b. looked over
3. name c. found
4. sudden d. event
5. discovered e. real
6. study f. alike
7. experts g. unexpected
8. analysed h. term
9. happening i. specialists
10. similar j. give back
3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)
1. it isn't just sad things that make a. breakup

2. A broken heart is an actual b. return that love
3. when someone we love does not c. joyful event
4. a relationship d. us brokenhearted
5. be at risk e. of a grandchild
6. published in the f. in Takotsubo Syndrome
7. Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data g. medical condition
8. a happy or h. from 1,750 patients
9. the birth i. of sudden death
10. both can result j. European Heart Journal
GAP FILL
Scientists have said it isn't (1) ____________ sad things that actual
make us brokenhearted. Happy (2) ____________ can also be during

bad for our heart. A broken heart is an (3) ____________ medical
just
condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love
sudden
does not (4) ____________ that love. We get broken heart
syndrome when we are highly stressed. We also get it events
(5) ____________ emotional times, such as a relationship discovered

breakup, the death of family and friends, or the
return
(6) ____________ of a job. The medical name for this is
loss
Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say people can get TTS,
and even be at risk of (7) ____________ death, when very happy
things happen. The doctors who (8) ____________ this have
called it "happy heart syndrome".
The researchers' study was (9) ____________ in the European suffered
Heart Journal on Thursday. Heart (10) ____________ Dr Christian published

Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data from 1,750 patients
emotional
who (11) ____________ from Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers
winning
were from nine different countries. They found 485
(12) ____________ got TTS because of an (13) ____________ patients
happening. Twenty of these had TTS because of a happy or similar

(14) ____________ event. The patients had heart problems after
experts
events like a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports team
joyful
(15) ____________ a game, and the birth of a grandchild. Dr
Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and sad events
are (16) ____________, so both can result in Takotsubo
Syndrome.
LISTENING – Guess the answers. Listen to check.
1) Scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make ______
a. we brokenhearted
b. us brokenhearted
c. as brokenhearted
d. us broken heart it
2) It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love does not ______
a. return that loved
b. return that love
c. return that loved
d. return that lover
3) We get broken heart syndrome when we ______
a. are highly stress
b. are highly stressed
c. are highly stresses
d. are highly stressing
4) such as a relationship breakup, the death of family and friends, or ______
a. the lost of a job
b. the loss for a job
c. the lost for a job
d. the loss of a job
5) people can get TTS, and even be at risk of sudden death, when very ______
a. happy thing happen
b. happy things happens
c. happy thing happens
d. happy things happen
6) The researchers' study was published in the European Heart ______
a. Journal in Thursday
b. General on Thursday
c. Journal on Thursday
d. General in Thursday
7) Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data ______
a. form 1,750 patients
b. from 1,750 patients
c. frame 1,750 patients
d. farm 1,750 patients
8) They found 485 patients got TTS because of an ______
a. emotion all happening
b. emotional happen in
c. emotion all happen in
d. emotional happening
9) a wedding, a favourite sports team winning a game, and the birth ______
a. of a grand children
b. of the grandchild
c. offer grandchild
d. of a grandchild
10) Dr Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and sad ______
a. events are similar
b. events are similarity
c. events are sommelier
d. events are smaller
LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps
Scientists have said (1) ___________________ sad things that make us
brokenhearted. Happy events can (2) ___________________ our heart. A
broken heart is an actual medical condition. It is not just the sadness we feel
when someone we love does (3) ___________________ love. We get
broken heart syndrome when we are highly stressed. We also get it during
emotional times, (4) ___________________ relationship breakup, the death
of family and friends, (5) ___________________ a job. The medical name
for this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say people can get TTS,
and even be at risk of sudden death, when very (6) ___________________.
The doctors who discovered this have called it "happy heart syndrome".
The researchers' study (7) ___________________ the European Heart
Journal on Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena
Ghadri analysed data from 1,750 patients (8) ___________________
Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers were from nine different countries. They
found 485 patients got TTS because (9) ___________________ happening.
Twenty of these had TTS because of a happy or joyful event. The patients
(10) ___________________ after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a
favourite sports team winning a game, (11) ___________________ a
grandchild. Dr Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and sad
events are similar, (12) ___________________ in Takotsubo Syndrome.
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1. Who said it wasn't just sad things that break our heart?
2. What did the article say was a real medical condition?
3. What do we get when we are highly stressed?
4. What is the medical name for broken heart syndrome?
5. Who made the name "happy heart syndrome"?
6. When was the study on TTS published?
7. How many different patients did doctors look at?
8. How many different countries were the TTS patients from?
9. How many patients had happy heart syndrome?
10. What do our body and brain think happy and sad events are?
MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ
1. Who said it wasn't just sad things that 6. When was the study on TTS published?
break our heart?
a) sad people a) Thursday

b) scientists b) Sunday
c) happy people c) Tuesday
d) the broken-hearted d) Saturday
2. What did the article say was a real 7. How many different patients did doctors
medical condition? look at?
a) stress a) 1,570
b) happiness b) 1,770
c) a broken heart c) 1,550
d) sadness d) 1,750
3. What do we get when we are highly 8. How many different countries were the
stressed? TTS patients from?
a) headaches a) 7
b) more stressed b) 8
c) sleeplessness c) 9
d) broken heart syndrome d) 10
4. What is the medical name for broken 9. How many patients had happy heart
heart syndrome? syndrome?
a) Tracksuit Syndrome a) 50
b) Takotsubo Syndrome b) 40
c) Taco Tubes Syndrome c) 30
d) Tack-O-Sue-Bo Syndrome d) 20
5. Who made the name "happy heart 10. What do our body and brain think
syndrome"? happy and sad events are?
a) doctors a) syndromes
b) happy people b) similar
c) sad people c) exact
d) the broken-hearted d) identical
ROLE PLAY
Role A – Birth of a grandchild

You think the birth of a grandchild is the happiest event. Tell
the others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't
as happy. Also, tell the others which is the least happy of these
(and why): winning the lottery, a favourite meal or going on
holiday.
Role B – Winning the lottery

You think winning the lottery is the happiest event. Tell the
others three reasons why. Tell them why their things aren't as
happy. Also, tell the others which is the least happy of these
(and why): the birth of a grandchild, a favourite meal or going
on holiday.
Role C – A favourite meal

You think a favourite meal is the happiest event. Tell the
(and why): winning the lottery, the birth of a grandchild or
going on holiday.
Role D – Going on holiday

You think going on holiday is the happiest event. Tell the
(and why): winning the lottery, a favourite meal or the birth of
a grandchild.
AFTER READING / LISTENING
1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates,

other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words 'broken' and 'heart'.
broken heart
• Share your findings with your partners.

• Make questions using the words you found.
• Ask your partner / group your questions.
2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down

some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.
• Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
• Ask your partner / group your questions.
3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise.

Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new,
interesting, worth learning…?
4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups,

pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.
5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try
to recall how they were used in the text:
• make • published
• actual • data
• return • nine
• highly • 485
• name • 20
• sudden • result
BROKEN HEARTS SURVEY
Write five GOOD questions about broken hearts in the table. Do this in pairs. Each
student must write the questions on his / her own paper.
When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.
STUDENT 1 STUDENT 2 STUDENT 3
_____________ _____________ _____________
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.
• Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found
out. Change partners often.
• Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.
BROKEN HEARTS DISCUSSION
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
1) What did you think when you read the headline?

2) What springs to mind when you hear the word 'happiness'?
3) What do you think about what you read?
4) How might happiness be unhealthy?
5) Have you ever had a broken heart?
6) How can you cure a broken heart?
7) What advice do you have for someone who is brokenhearted?
8) What things can cause a broken heart?
9) What's the happiest thing that happened to you recently?
10) What do you do to keep your heart healthy?
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BROKEN HEARTS DISCUSSION
STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
11) Did you like reading this article? Why/not?

12) What do you know about the heart?
13) How emotional are you?
14) How happy are you?
15) Will you try and be less happy at happy events in future?
16) How dangerous is stress?
17) In what ways are happiness and sadness similar?
18) How often are you happy and how often are you sad?
19) Should happy events carry a health warning?
20) What questions would you like to ask the researchers?
DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)
STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________
6. ________________________________________________________
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DISCUSSION (Write your own questions)

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
1. ________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________
5. ________________________________________________________
6. ________________________________________________________
LANGUAGE - CLOZE
Scientists have said it isn't (1) ____ sad things that make us brokenhearted. Happy
events can also be bad for our heart. A broken heart is an (2) ____ medical
condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love does not
(3) ____ that love. We get broken heart syndrome when we are (4) ____ stressed.
We also get it during emotional times, such as a relationship breakup, the death of
family and friends, or the (5) ____ of a job. The medical name for this is Takotsubo
Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say people can get TTS, and even be (6) ____ risk of
sudden death, when very happy things happen. The doctors who discovered this
have called it "happy heart syndrome".
The researchers' study was published (7) ____ the European Heart Journal on
Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data
from 1,750 patients who (8) ____ from Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers were
from nine different countries. They found 485 patients (9) ____ TTS because of an
emotional (10) ____. Twenty of these had TTS because of a happy or joyful event.
The patients had heart problems after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a
favourite sports team winning a game, and the (11) ____ of a grandchild. Dr
Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and sad events are similar, so
both can result (12) ____ Takotsubo Syndrome.
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.
1. (a) justly (b) justice (c) just (d) adjust
2. (a) actual (b) actually (c) actualise (d) actuality
3. (a) return (b) reply (c) respond (d) redo
4. (a) highly (b) heighten (c) high (d) height
5. (a) less (b) loss (c) lost (d) least
6. (a) of (b) by (c) as (d) at
7. (a) on (b) at (c) in (d) to
8. (a) suffer (b) suffers (c) suffering (d) suffered
9. (a) got (b) did (c) received (d) took
10. (a) happening (b) happen (c) happens (d) happened
11. (a) born (b) birth (c) deliver (d) delivered
12. (a) at (b) to (c) in (d) by
SPELLING
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PUT THE TEXT BACK TOGETHER
Number these lines in the correct order.
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when we are highly stressed. We also get it during
( 1 ) Scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make us

brokenhearted. Happy events can also be bad
( ) name for this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say

people can get TTS, and even be at risk of sudden
( ) countries. They found 485 patients got TTS because of an

emotional happening. Twenty of
( ) of a grandchild. Dr Ghadri said our body and brain may think happy
and
( ) these had TTS because of a happy or joyful event. The patients had
heart problems after events
( ) emotional times, such as a relationship breakup, the death of

family and friends, or the loss of a job. The medical
( ) The researchers' study was published in the European Heart Journal

on Thursday. Heart
( ) sad events are similar, so both can result in Takotsubo Syndrome.
( ) for our heart. A broken heart is an actual medical condition. It is

not just the sadness we feel when someone we
( ) death, when very happy things happen. The doctors who

discovered this have called it "happy heart syndrome".
( ) experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri analysed data

from 1,750 patients who suffered
( ) like a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports team winning a

game, and the birth
( ) from Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers were from nine different
PUT THE WORDS IN THE RIGHT ORDER
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2. is an A actual broken medical heart condition .
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5. happen things happy very when death sudden of risk at Be .
6. Journal in on the Thursday European Heart Published .
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10. party Patients had heart problems after events like a birthday .
CIRCLE THE CORRECT WORD (20 PAIRS)
Scientists have said it isn't just sad / sadly things that make us
brokenhearted. Happy events can also be badly / bad for our heart. A
broken heart is an actual / actually medical condition. It is not just the
sadness we feel when someone we loving / love does not return / returning
that love. We get broken heart syndrome when we are highly / high
stressed. We also get it between / during emotional times, such has / as a
relationship breakup, the death of family and friends, or the loss of a job.
The medical name for this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers say
people can get TTS, and ever / even be at risk of sudden death, when very
happy things happen. The doctors who discovered / discovery this have
called it "happy heart syndrome".
The researchers' study was publishing / published in the European Heart
Journal on Thursday. Heart experts / expats Dr Christian Templin and Dr
Jelena Ghadri analysed data from 1,750 patients who suffering / suffered
from Takotsubo Syndrome. The sufferers were from nine difference /
different countries. They found 485 patience / patients got TTS because of
an emotional happening / happened. Twenty of these had TTS because of a
happy or joyfully / joyful event. The patients had heart problems after
events like / such a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports team
winning a game, and the birth / born of a grandchild. Dr Ghadri said our
body and brain may think happy and sad events are similar, so both can
result on / in Takotsubo Syndrome.
Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and
why the correct word is correct.
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PUNCTUATE THE TEXT AND ADD CAPITALS
scientists have said it isn't just sad things that make us brokenhearted
happy events can also be bad for our heart a broken heart is an actual
medical condition it is not just the sadness we feel when someone we love
does not return that love we get broken heart syndrome when we are highly
stressed we also get it during emotional times such as a relationship
breakup the death of family and friends or the loss of a job the medical
name for this is takotsubo syndrome (tts) researchers say people can get tts
and even be at risk of sudden death when very happy things happen the
doctors who discovered this have called it "happy heart syndrome"
the researchers' study was published in the european heart journal on
thursday heart experts dr christian templin and dr jelena ghadri analysed
data from 1750 patients who suffered from takotsubo syndrome the
sufferers were from nine different countries they found 485 patients got tts
because of an emotional happening twenty of these had tts because of a
happy or joyful event the patients had heart problems after events like a
birthday party a wedding a favourite sports team winning a game and the
birth of a grandchild dr ghadri said our body and brain may think happy and
sad events are similar so both can result in takotsubo syndrome
PUT A SLASH ( / ) WHERE THE SPACES ARE
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appyeventscanalsobebadforourheart.Abrokenheartisanactualmedi
calcondition.Itisnotjustthesadnesswefeelwhensomeonewelovedoes
notreturnthatlove.Wegetbrokenheartsyndromewhenwearehighlyst
ressed.Wealsogetitduringemotionaltimes,suchasarelationshipbrea
kup,thedeathoffamilyandfriends,orthelossofajob.Themedicalnamef
orthisisTakotsuboSyndrome(TTS).ResearcherssaypeoplecangetTT
S,andevenbeatriskofsuddendeath,whenveryhappythingshappen.T
hedoctorswhodiscoveredthishavecalledit"happyheartsyndrome".Th
eresearchers'studywaspublishedintheEuropeanHeartJournalonThu
rsday.HeartexpertsDrChristianTemplinandDrJelenaGhadrianalysed
datafrom1,750patientswhosufferedfromTakotsuboSyndrome.Thes
uffererswerefromninedifferentcountries.Theyfound485patientsgot
TTSbecauseofanemotionalhappening.TwentyofthesehadTTSbecaus
eofahappyorjoyfulevent.Thepatientshadheartproblemsaftereventsl
ikeabirthdayparty,awedding,afavouritesportsteamwinningagame,a
ndthebirthofagrandchild.DrGhadrisaidourbodyandbrainmaythinkha
ppyandsadeventsaresimilar,sobothcanresultinTakotsuboSyndrome
FREE WRITING
Write about broken hearts for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.
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ACADEMIC WRITING
We shouldn't worry about happy heart syndrome. Discuss.
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HOMEWORK
1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the

text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to
build up more associations / collocations of each word.
2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about broken
hearts. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.
3. BROKEN HEARTS: Make a poster about broken hearts. Show your

work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?
4. HAPPY HEART SYNDROME: Write a magazine article about happy

heart syndrome. Include imaginary interviews with people who have had it
and with people who think they could never get it.
Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any
new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next

stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the
next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on broken hearts. Ask him/her

three questions about broken hearts. Give him/her three of your ideas. Read
your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will
answer your questions.
ANSWERS
TRUE / FALSE (p.4)

a F b F c T d T e T f F g T h F
SYNONYM MATCH (p.4)

1. actual a. real
2. return b. give back
3. name c. term
4. sudden d. unexpected
5. discovered e. found
6. study f. report
7. experts g. specialists
8. analysed h. looked over
9. happening i. event
10. similar j. alike
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS (p.8)

1. Scientists
2. A broken heart
3. Broken heart syndrome
4. Takotsubo Syndrome
5. Doctors
6. Thursday
7. 1,750
8. Nine
9. 20
10. Similar
MULTIPLE CHOICE - QUIZ (p.9)

1. b 2. c 3. d 4. b 5. a 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. d 10. b
ALL OTHER EXERCISES

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“1,000 IDEAS & ACTIVITIES Thousands more free lessons

Please try Levels 0, 1 and 2 (they are easier).

medical condition. It is not just the sadness we feel when someone we

are highly stressed. We also get it during emotional times, such as a

The medical name for this is Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS). Researchers

"happy heart syndrome".

The researchers' study was published in the European Heart Journal on

Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena Ghadri

analysed data from 1,750 patients who suffered from Takotsubo

485 patients got TTS because of an emotional happening. Twenty of

problems after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a favourite sports

result in Takotsubo Syndrome.

scientists / brokenhearted / medical condition / emotional / relationship / doctors /

4. DON'T WORRY: Students A strongly believe we shouldn't worry about happy

• birth of a grandchild • your favourite meal

a. Scientists say only sad things break our heart. T/F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1. it isn't just sad things that make a. breakup

make us brokenhearted. Happy (2) ____________ can also be during

syndrome when we are highly stressed. We also get it events

(5) ____________ emotional times, such as a relationship discovered

and even be at risk of (7) ____________ death, when very happy

things happen. The doctors who (8) ____________ this have

called it "happy heart syndrome".

The researchers' study was (9) ____________ in the European suffered

Heart Journal on Thursday. Heart (10) ____________ Dr Christian published

(12) ____________ got TTS because of an (13) ____________ patients

happening. Twenty of these had TTS because of a happy or similar

are (16) ____________, so both can result in Takotsubo

Scientists have said (1) ___________________ sad things that make us

brokenhearted. Happy events can (2) ___________________ our heart. A

when someone we love does (3) ___________________ love. We get

emotional times, (4) ___________________ relationship breakup, the death

of family and friends, (5) ___________________ a job. The medical name

and even be at risk of sudden death, when very (6) ___________________.

The researchers' study (7) ___________________ the European Heart

Journal on Thursday. Heart experts Dr Christian Templin and Dr Jelena

Ghadri analysed data from 1,750 patients (8) ___________________

found 485 patients got TTS because (9) ___________________ happening.

(10) ___________________ after events like a birthday party, a wedding, a

favourite sports team winning a game, (11) ___________________ a

events are similar, (12) ___________________ in Takotsubo Syndrome.

2. What did the article say was a real medical condition?

3. What do we get when we are highly stressed?

4. What is the medical name for broken heart syndrome?

5. Who made the name "happy heart syndrome"?

6. When was the study on TTS published?

7. How many different patients did doctors look at?

8. How many different countries were the TTS patients from?

9. How many patients had happy heart syndrome?

a) sad people a) Thursday

Role A – Birth of a grandchild

Role B – Winning the lottery

Role C – A favourite meal

Role D – Going on holiday

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates,

• Share your findings with your partners.

(12) got TTS because of an (13) patients

_______ _ _______