C1.1 Unit 1: Success

Overall aims for the week:

Communicate more precisely about personal motivations and passions in relation to:

real situations

career aspirations 

real-life outcomes

Use the perfect aspect in all tenses with more ease. 

Transform verbs and adjectives into noun form. Move between word forms with more ease.

Become more familiar with idioms in normal conversation.

Expand use of adjectives of personality and emotion

Vocab for Unit 1: 

Amateur 

Royalty 

Criteria 

Discourage 

Indecisive 

Circumstances 

Evaluate 

Procrastinate 

Strategy 

Outstanding 

Admire 

Inspiring 

Supplementary vocab (from Ted Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert): 

based on 

adolescence
to unthread 
catapult

abrupt 
glare
flung
hinterlands 

psyche

remedy 

self-restoration 

follow-up
devotion 
don't budge

TED Lecture Vocab: Elizabeth Gilbert on success and failure

Start by talking about the pictures. What words could they represent?

Look at this list of phrases. Try to recall the images and discuss which images might represent them.

based on 

adolescence

to unthread 

catapult

abrupt 

glare

flung

hinterlands 

psyche

remedy 

self-restoration 

follow-up

devotion 

don't budge

Separate the words....

1. amateurroyaltycriteriadiscourageindecisivecircumstances










2. evaluateprocrastinatestrategyoutstandingadmireinspriring









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