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10C READY, SET, GOAL!

learn and move forward without making
Speaking mistakes. You should think failure as a
part of the road to the goal and make
(9) with it.
a Discuss the following questions with class. Chad: I suppose you’re right. Let’s go and study
for more failures!
1 Why do you think it is important for people
to go after their dreams? c Guess the meanings of the phrasal verbs from the
2 Is there a case in which you got hopeless dialogue. Write definitions for each in your own
sometimes, but succeeded in the end? What words.
is it?
b Listen to the dialogue and write the missing words. 1 to cope with something:
Track 61 2 to keep at something:

3 to make every effort:
4 to set a goal:
5 to make peace with something:

d Look at the series of photos. Discuss the following
questions with class.
Ruby: Hear this: In 1901, two years before their
first (1) flight, Wilbur
Wright of the Wright brothers said that
man would not be able to fly for fifty
years.
Chad: Ha ha! Anyway, they (2) 1 2
it, didn’t they? Perhaps it was just a
(3) moment for him,
something went wrong with their work
and he couldn’t cope with it.
Ruby: Maybe. Who knows? But they kept at it
and went after their dreams. If they had 3 4
(4), we couldn’t have
flown for many more years as he said.
Chad: They must have been ambitious people.
I’m not sure if I could be so persistent.
Ruby: Why wouldn’t you be? Think of the
exams you have. Do you give up studying
when you (5) one? 5 6
Chad: Of course I don’t, but it’s not the
same. It’s a big deal you know, you 1 What happened in the beginning and what did
(6) to fly, but you can’t, the girl do?
despite every (7) you have 2 What happened in the end?
made. 3 What would have happened if she had given
Ruby: I don’t agree with you. There is no difference up?
between an exam and an invention to me. 4 What is the moral of this story?
You set a goal, big or small, and do your 5 What should we do when we face difficulties or
best to (8) it. We wouldn’t when we fail? Why?

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