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Years ago, coffee options were limited to black or white but now customers have around 20 options. Supermarkets offer thousands of products and online we have hundreds of choices for clothes, hotels, and TV. However, researchers found that too many options cause stress and dissatisfaction. With more options, people worry about choosing wrongly and feel they missed opportunities. In a study, those with 6 jam options were happier than those with 24 options. We should relax when choosing to feel better about our selection.

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Lesson 10, Key

Years ago, coffee options were limited to black or white but now customers have around 20 options. Supermarkets offer thousands of products and online we have hundreds of choices for clothes, hotels, and TV. However, researchers found that too many options cause stress and dissatisfaction. With more options, people worry about choosing wrongly and feel they missed opportunities. In a study, those with 6 jam options were happier than those with 24 options. We should relax when choosing to feel better about our selection.

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 Read the article carefully.

Is too much choice making us unhappy?


Years ago there were only two kinds of coffee – black or white. But nowadays when you go into a
coffee shop in the UK you are given about twenty different options. Do you want a Cappuccino, a
Latte, a Caramel Macchiato, an Americano, or a White Mocha?
In big supermarkets we have to choose between thousands of products – my local supermarket has
35 different kinds of milk! When we are buying clothes or electrical gadgets, looking for a hotel on a
travel website, or just deciding which TV channel to watch, we
we are constantly forced to choose from
hundreds of possibilities.
However, university researchers have discovered that too much choice is making us feel unhappy
and dissatisfied. The problem is that we have so many options that we get stressed every time we
have to make a decision, because we are worried about making the wrong one. Then when we
choose one thing we feel bad because we think we are missing other opportunities, and this makes us
dissatisfied with what we have chosen.
Professor Mark Lepper at Stanford University in America found that people who tried six kinds of jam
felt happier with their choice than those who were offered 24 jams to taste.
Professor Lepper suggests that we should try to relax when we have to choose something to buy.
‘Don’t take these choices too seriously or it will become stressful,’ he says. ‘If you pick a sofa from
IKEA in 30 seconds, you’ll feel better than if you spend hours researching sofas – because you won’t
know what you’re missing.

 Answer the following questions in Spanish.


1. How have options changed with the stream of time?
Hace años solo había dos tipos de café: negro o blanco. Pero hoy en día, cuando vas a una cafetería
en el Reino Unido, te dan alrededor de veinte opciones diferentes.

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2. What happens today
oday when we go shopping?
Nos
os vemos obligados a elegir entre cientos de posibilidades.

3. Why do researchers think that having different options doesn’t make us happy?
El problema es que tenemos tantas opciones que nos estresamos cada vez que tenemos que tomar
tom
una decisión, porque estamos preocupados por tomar la decisión equivocada.

4. Is the idea of having a great deal of opportunities a negative or a positive factor?


Cuando
uando elegimos una cosa, nos sentimos mal porque creemos que nos están perdiendo otras
oportunidades,
tunidades, y esto nos hace insatisfechos con lo que hemos elegido.

5. What should we do when choosing something to buy?


El profesor Lepper sugiere que debemos tratar de relajarnos cuando tenemos que elegir algo para
comprar.

GRAMMAR CHECK
 Find examples of the following tenses:
Examples from the text Reason for their uses
Tense
(In English) (In Spanish)

Professor Lepper suggests that we


Simple Present Opinión
should try to relax

Years ago there were only two kinds


Simple Past Acción en pasado
of coffee

Present we are buying clothes or electrical


Acción que ocurre en este momento
Continuous gadgets,

Simple Future you’ll


’ll feel better Promesa

However, university researchers have Acción en pasado con resultado en el


Present Perfect
discovered that… presente

 There are examples of Passive Voice. Give one and explain it in the
following box:

Example: …we
we are constantly forced to choose from hundreds of possibilities.

Tense: Present Simple


S

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Doer of the
Los medios masivos de comunicación
action:

 What kind of word is “seriously”? Why is this suffix used?


Es un adverbio de modo (ly)

 What kind of word is “happier”?


Es un adjetivo comparativo (er)

 What is the meaning of the phrasal verb “took off”?


Despegar, empezar, prposperar…

 Give an example of a sentence with a relative clause. Here you have


the relative pronoun:
Professor Mark Lepper at Stanford University in America found that people who
WHO tried six kinds of jam felt happier with their choice than those who were offered
24 jams to taste.

 Are modal verbs essential for the meaning of a sentence? Re-read the
following sentences and explain the idea of the modal verb:
Professor Lepper suggests that we should try to relax when we have to choose something to buy.
should expresa consejo.

In big supermarkets we have to choose between thousands of products...


have to expresa obligacion.

 Inchoactive verbs are followed by an adjective. There is an example


in the text. Can you understand the idea?
The problem is that we have so many options that we get stressed every time we have to make a
decision. Estos verbos expresan un cambio de estado.

 What kind of sentence is the following example? Can you translate


the idea and explain the intention of the writer?
If you pick a sofa from IKEA in 30 seconds, you’ll feel better than if you spend hours researching sofas
– because you won’t know what you’re missing.

Si escoges un sofá de IKEA en 30 segundos, te sentirás mejor que si te pasas horas investigando
sofás, porque no sabrás lo que te estás perdiendo.
Expresa posibilidad.

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 Is the term “making” a noun, a verb or an adjective?
Is too much choice making us unhappy? (Verbo)

…university researchers have discovered that too much choice is making us feel… (Verbo)

…every time we have to make a decision, because we are worried about making the wrong one.
(Sustantivo)

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