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    Vocabulary Verb phrases about ambitions 1 Complete the phrases with the correct verbs, round the world to university abroad to speak a foreign : language how to fly a plane how to drive a car a degree 3 —____ married ajob a milionaire _g00d at something famous an interesting job 5 children a large family a lot of money 6 £100,000 €250,000 a year a novel +e 2 book ‘8 computer program ahouse or flat 8 acer a holiday home Listen and read Not always so successful 2a Read the article and choose the best title. ‘A Not always so successful B How to be good at what you do € Three amazing achievements ‘These days, we know lots about the lives and the successes of famous people in sport, music and business. And perhaps we sometimes think that ‘successful people have always been successful. Right? Well, let's have a look at some examples to see if that’s true. Sport— Michael Jordan Michael Jordan isthe greatest basketball player of alltime To many people hebas been Sa Person who makes people want to do better His $pontng achievements made him a ey very teh pron But when he vas at school, he et space onthe school basketball team And be ent home ad ced His professional carer bas had ales as wel as successes. missed ‘oe han 9000 shos in is eareer. As Jordan bimsel seid, ee Music— Beethoven During Beethoven's ile, some people didnt think his music was very good, Beethoven's ‘music teacher described him like this: a But Beethoven's Shape was to become a composer He wanted io be very succesful and worked very hard al his life. And his musie gor better and better Many people think he isthe greatest composer of classical music ever Business - Soichiro Honda young man, Soichiro Honda didnt have a {ob at all He had ambition and lots of ideas for businesses, but they did’ work. He lost maney and his wife ha to sell her jewellery so that they had money for fod. He tried to get a job ‘with Toyota, but he didrt do very well atthe Interview. But he always had "bel that he couk? do well In 1948, he Yopened a company and ow the Honda Motor Company has neatly 180,000 ‘employees around the word. Soichiro Honda believed that when you havea problem ora failure, team help you to learn and get beter He once sai, 6 Powered by § CamScanner b Complete 1-3 in the article by putting the ‘quotations below in the correct place, ‘A As a composer, he is hopeless’ B ‘Success is 99 percent failure.’ € ‘Thave lost almost 300 games. | have failed over and over and over again in my life, And that is why succeed." ¢ €27.1 listen and check your answers to exercises a and b. 4. Replace the phrases in italics (A-F) in the article with the words and phrases in the box. dream confidence an inspiration set his goals high multimillionaire started his own business Past participle | Base form heard _hear __ mmonw> Grammar focus 1 Present perfect and Past simple with for 3a_Look at the grid below and find 21 more irregular past participles. Write the past participle and the base form in the table on the right. G R| Dd) oO E P|E/= wlololl> z ofalalx]> b G7.2 Listen and check. Practise saying the past participles. 4 Complete the sentences with the Present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. 1 We _ have had (have) our car for three years. 2 How tong. (you / live) in London? 3 We (not see) Amy for months. 4 Mike and Crystal (be) married for about ten years. 5 There ofalzlaleclo]z]o olzle z]=]a]a]- elalol~lz[m[a[> ln <[ale[alulof-e wlalzlzle >llalzi[=|xlol~

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