Week 20

Wednesday


Så här de sista veckorna ut för engelskans del:
V 20  Lektion: Dreams, goals, ambitions övrigt (torsdag lediga)
V 21 OBS!                      (Onsdag ingen lektion p gr av NP matematik)
V 22 FILM Book talk ska skickas in senast onsdag denna vecka!
V 23 Betygsprat

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.




Dreams, ambitions & goals






Goals & Ambitions

 

 

Discuss the following questions: 

• What goals do you have in your Life?
• What are your "short term" goals?
• What are your "long term" goals?
• Should parents help their children set goals?
• What are your educational goals?
• What are your career goals?
• What are your financial goals?
• Are goals necessary to achieve success?
• Is having a goal helpful in motivating a person?
• Do you think people have fewer goals as they get older?
• Do you have any goals that you feel are unrealistic?
• How do people's goals change from country to country?
• What are the main differences between male and female goals?
• Which of your goals have you already achieved?
• How would you feel if you failed to achieve any of your goals?
• Do you think it's a good idea to write your goals down and tick them off as you achieve them?
• What do you hope to have achieved by the time you're sixty?
• What is something you never learned to do but wish you had?
• What success have you had in this English class? What can you do to be more successful?
• Do you believe that people must work hard to become successful? Why or why not?
• Can you think of a successful person from your own county? What do they do? How do you think they did it?
• What kind of success do you want in the future in your life?
• What can you do now to be successful in the future?
• Do you think that money and fame means success?

 

Ambitions



Ambition is a desire for personal or professional achievement, usually requiring determination and hard work to achieve success.  For some people, ambition gives them a purpose or a goal to strive for. Many people think that a life without ambition is an empty life, while others think that inner happiness can be found without an ambition to achieve a high level career or a high paying job.  Ambition is not just a desire to achieve, but it also involves the action or method of getting to that desire.


Discuss these questions:

How would you define ambition?

Do you consider yourself to be an ambitious person? Why/not?

Do you think it is important to have ambitions?

Do you think that ambition can be taught or do you think we are born with it?

Does ambition always bring success?

What are the positive results of being ambitious?

Are there any negative results of being ambitious?

What do you think is the difference between an ambition and a dream of doing something?

Name three famous people whom you admire for being ambitious.

Why are some people determined to succeed at any cost, yet others just about lack any drive whatsoever?

What do you think causes a person to be ambitious – family, genes, or the culture in which he/she is raised?

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

Do you think someone can lose their ambition? What do you think could cause this?

Do you think younger people are more ambitious than older people?

Do you think one’s social status as a child, whether rich, poor, or somewhere in the middle, affects his/her ability to succeed later in life?

Who possesses a greater amount of ambition, men or women? Why do you think so?

Which nations have the greatest number of ambitious people? Why do you think so? Are there any countries which lack overachievers?

Imagine that you’re a parent. How could you instill a healthy sense of drive in your child?

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Listen to this discussion about ambition. Then discuss the questions below:

The speaker expresses her view that money is not the most important consideration and that enjoyment of a job is more important. To what extent do you agree with this?

The speaker talks about turning her wish into reality. How do you think she could do this?

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Read through the text below and also try to translate it into Swedish. You probably need to look up some of the words below. These words are your homework for Thursday next week. You should know their meaning, be able to spell them, pronounce them and know how to use them in a context.

Look the words up in an online dictionary
Listen to how they are pronounced in Merriam-Webster


Vocabulary

Nouns	Adjectives	Verbs
Promotion Success Status Inherent Excellence Incentive	Industrious Reliable Motivated Eager Driven Ambitious Incompetent Personal Monetary Professional Productive	Overachieve Desire Aspire Strive Attain Elevate

Vocabulary in Use

The only way to achieve success is to be ambitious, be it in one’s personal life or professional one.  The desire to be the best at everything seems inherent for some people, while others are happy to remain indifferent.

Not me. I prefer to be driven toward a goal. When I worked in lower management at a bank, for example, I greatly desired promotion to upper management. I was eager to complete any task I was given, came up with industrious solutions to problems, and aggressively motivated my team to strive for excellence. I became known as a reliable employee, and was able to attain a few increases in salary. The monetary incentive sure did help to elevate my social status. But by the time I returned home each day, I was tired and incompetent. I was exhausted from the effort I was putting in at work.

I had to remind myself to aspire to be a good spouse and to save some energy for my personal life. Now I resolve not to overachieve in only one area, but to be accomplished and productive in all of them.


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