ENGLISH FILE pre-intermediate - 7A. First day nerves. p. 56, ex.7.8
ENGLISH FILE pre-intermediate - 7A. First day nerves. p. 56, ex.7.8
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7.8 the capital city of Estonia Talon is
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one of the most beautiful cities on the
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Baltic Coast it's one of the world's
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smart cities which means that technology
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plays an important role in people's
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lives and in business but some people in
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Talon are using the internet for
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something very unusual it's called the
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bank of happiness but it's a very
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different kind of bank nobody pays money
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into the bank and the bank doesn't lend
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money to anybody instead the bank of
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Happiness is a forum where thousands of
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people from Estonia and other countries
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too connect with each other and they
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offer or receive Services completely
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free of charge here's how it works you
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register and then you post what you're
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offering or what you need it's really
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easy for example people offer to do the
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shopping for somebody or walk their dog
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other people post things like I need
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someone who can fix my car or can
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anybody translate an email into French
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for me but the most important thing is
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that nobody pays any money everything is
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free the bank was started over 5 Years
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Ago by a 39-year-old Estonian woman
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called iie Kei she's a psychologist and
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a family therapist and her goal was to
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make people think and act with their
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hearts I thought we need something like
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this Bank of Happiness where people can
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meet each other and help each other do
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something cool the Estonian economy was
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also having problems at the time a
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little bit later I thought wow the bank
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of happiness is perfect for this
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economic crisis a lot of people are
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unemployed and they can use our
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bank in the Bank of Happiness people
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don't need to pay each other back for
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example a teenager will do the SHO for
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his old neighbor and maybe the neighbor
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can't do anything for him in return but
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then perhaps the neighbor will post a
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comment on the site and tell people
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about what the teenager did and then
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another person who sees this will
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probably do something to help the
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teenager the principle of the bank is
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that it's not money and things that make
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people happy what really makes them
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happy is doing things for other people