Lesson 18 Setting Goals

Lesson 18 – Setting Goals

Learning Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

• Identify and establish SMART goals.• Use future perfect tense in expressing future goals.• Evaluate tips that can help make it easier to set and reach goals.• Explore useful idiomatic expression when talking about goals.• Recite correctly commonly mispronounced words in English.

Lesson Objectives 2

Lesson 18. Setting Goals

Warm Up 3


Explain this quote.

Introduction 4


Why Set Goals?

Top-level athletes, successful businesspeople and achievers in all fields all set goals. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation . It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the most of your life.

The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You'll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.

Measurable

Specific

Reflection 5


Attainable

Timely

Realistic

The more detailed, the easier to plan your moves.

Make your goals quantitative and gaugeable!

Challenge yourself, but not so much that you become overwhelmed.

Set your sights on what you believe you can do.

Don’t give yourself too much time – it can lead to boredom andabandonment of goals!

• Plan S.M.A.R.T

Set your goals successfully with these tips:

Grammar Chunk 9

Examples: I hope that I will have finished my work before the weekend.

By the end of the year, I will have run a marathon.

By the end of the month, she will have completed the English course.

Future Perfect TenseWhat is Future Perfect Tense?It is a verb tense used for actions that will be completed before some other point in the future.


FORM: will have + past participle

Grammar Exercise 10

Finish the sentences using the future perfect tense. Talk about your short-term and long terms goals on these aspects of life.

FAMILY CAREER SELF

I will have ____________by _________________.

By the ____________,I will have ____________.

By the time ___________,I will have ____________.


Reading 6

1. Specific, realistic goals work best. When it comes to making a change, the people who succeed are those who set realistic, specific goals, “I’m going to recycle all my plastic bottles, soda cans, and magazines” is a much more doable goal than “I’m going to do more for the environment.” And that makes it easier to stick with.

2. It takes time for a change to become an established habit. That’s because your brain needs time to get used to the idea that this new thing you’re doing is part of your regular routine.

3. Repeating a goal makes it stick. (Writing it down works too.) Every time you remind yourself of your goal, you’re training your brain to make it happen.

4. Pleasing other people won’t work. The key to making any change is to find the desire within yourself – you have to do it because you want it, not because a girlfriend, boyfriend, coach, parent, or someone else wants you to. It will be harder to stay on track and motivated if you’re doing something out of obligation to another person.

5. Roadblocks don’t mean failure. It may take a few tries to reach a goal. But that’s OK – it’s normal to mess up or give up a few times when trying to make a change. So remember that everyone slips up and don’t beat yourself up about it. Just remind yourself to get back on track.

Practical Tips in goal setting can help make it easier to set and reach goals:


Reading Comprehension 7

Decide whether the following statements are True or False.

1. You can reach your goal easily if it is special. (T / F)2. It may take two months to change an old habit of yours. (T / F)3. Never write down your goal if you don’t want to fail. (T / F)4. You should reach your goal to make other people happy. (T / F)5. If you can reach your goal, you should try again. (T / F)

Free Response:

• What roadblocks have you encountered recently?• Did you overcome them?• Is giving up an option for you?• Why do people set a target / goal?• Do you mind failing? Why/not?


Useful Expressions 8

What do these expressions mean? Read the examples and guess.

1."If you want to pass your exams, you'll

have to buckle down and do some

serious work."

2."We can't say it's impossible until

we've explored all avenues."

3."His success wasn't due

to luck; it was blood, sweat and tears all the

way."

4."The journalist was determined at all

costs to get a report from the war zone."


Speaking Drill 11


1. How important are goals to you?2. Do you ever write down your goals? Why? Why not? How often do

you update them?3. Do you have any goals which might sound unrealistic to others?4. Who do you think you can get help from to set your goals?5. Do men and women have different goals?6. Do you think setting goals can help you stay motivated?7. Have you ever given up on a goal? Why? How did you feel?8. Should parents help their children set goals?9. Should parents help their children set goals?10.Do you think people have fewer goals as they get older?11.Which of your goals have you already achieved?

Pronunciation Drill 11

Words

often oft-en off-en

nuclear nuke-yoo-lar nuke-lee-ar

library libe-air-ee libe-rare-ee

perspire pre-spire per-spire

probably prob-ly prob-ab-ly

debut di-boo dey-byoo

Commonly Mispronounced words


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