Unit 12 | Session 2

Lessons learned?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Share a life lesson you’ve learned
 Unit 12 | Session 2
Lessons learned?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Share a life lesson you’ve learned

Lesson overview
1 GET STARTED
2 LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Time waits for no one
3 READING: Theo and his volcano
4 SPEAKING TASK: A lesson learned
5 PROGRESS CHECK
GET STARTED

What’s an important lesson you’ve learned from an adult in your life?

LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Time waits for no one
Listen to the audio. Take notes about Betty and Gavin.

Betty Gavin
1 what they used to believe

2 what they believe now

LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Time waits for no one
Read Betty’s and Gavin’s lessons. Do you
agree or disagree? Why? Discuss with a
partner.

• Treat each day as a gift.

Betty
• Value the time that you have.

• Look at the past in a positive way.

Gavin
• Learn from past mistakes.
READING
Theo and his volcano
Read Theo’s story from his childhood. What lesson do
you think he learned from his experience?
When I was ten, my teacher told me I had to write a report about
volcanoes and make a model volcano. I delayed working on the
project until the day before my presentation, and then I told my
parents after dinner. At first, they were mad at me, and I felt really
bad, but then they said they’d help me. We researched volcanoes
online and went to a craft store just before it closed to buy things to
make the volcano. We worked on it until midnight, and I wrote the
report. The next day, I gave a terrific talk. All of my classmates said
I had made a cool volcano, and the teacher took a picture of me
with it.
READING
Theo and his volcano
Read about Theo’s lesson from his experience. Do you
agree that his parents didn’t teach him a good lesson?

This taught me that I could wait until the last minute and still do a
magnificent job. But it was the wrong lesson to learn, and I spent
the next ten years trying to unlearn it. In high school and college,
everything was harder, but because of my volcano, I told myself I
could wait until the last minute. I failed a lot before I learned how
to manage my time well. I think now that it would have been
better if my parents had let me fail when I was ten. I would have
learned a valuable lesson a lot earlier.
SPEAKING TASK
A lesson learned
Work with a partner to discuss the
meanings of the lessons below.
1 Good things don’t come easy.

2 Walk your own path.

3 Experience what you have learned.

4 Make every moment count.

5 Your education is never complete.

SPEAKING TASK
A lesson learned
Think about a life experience that taught
you one of the life lessons listed below.
Take notes about your experience.
1 Good things don’t come easy.

2 Walk your own path.

3 Experience what you have learned.

4 Make every moment count.

5 Your education is never complete.

SPEAKING TASK
A lesson learned
Share your story with your group. Don’t
say which lesson applies to your story.
Your classmates will guess the lesson
after listening to your story.
1 Good things don’t come easy.

2 Walk your own path.

3 Experience what you have learned.

4 Make every moment count.

5 Your education is never complete.

PROGRESS CHECK

Now I can...

❑ tell a story about an important life lesson.

❑ evaluate other people’s life lessons and advice.

 Unit 12 | Session 2
Life lessons?
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Share a life lesson you’ve learned

Thank you!