Discuss
1. Are
you a perfectionist? What kinds of things do you like to be perfect at?
2. Are
you an ambitious person? What are you ambitious about?
3. Are
you sometimes hard on yourself? Give an example of how you might be hard on
yourself.
4. "One
of the greatest obstacles to a good life is the expectation of
perfection."
Do you agree?
5. Have you thought a
lot about what you really want to be?
In an ideal world,
what would be be?
6. Do you feel limited
by "reality"?
Language used:
someone who practices a
learned profession
be_____th
the state of being average
or unremarkable
ine____tude
something that we can be
caught or stuck in
cur____ed
d___ft
a first attempt at a
complex piece of work
agonizing physical or
mental pain
Vocabulary Quiz:
24 terms
For notes and later discussion:
We f________ate our ambitions by....
We form our career plans on the b____s of....
We end up the l_____t able to....
Our media ed___s out....
It starts to a_____r as though....
Our p_________n is imbalanced because.....
We should f_____s on....
We need to re______ise the legitimate and necessary....
Allow o_______s to do things quite....
Language focus: expressive adverbs
What do these words
mean? Try to define them in your own words?
markedly
imperfectly
absurdly
largely
typically
deeply
actually
primarily
closely
Listen for them in the
clip and write them in the order you hear them.
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