Number 3.

Ask students in pairs to brainstorm vocabulary they associate to success and

failure. You might want to teach some more advanced vocabulary. Ask students to write three
columns on their notebooks ( words related to Success/ words related to failure/ related to
both ). Write the words down, one at a time, on the board and ask students to tell you
whether they are related to success or failure or both.

o to accomplish / accomplishment

o to achieve/( remarkable) achievement

o to take risks / a risk taker

o a visionary

o a dreamer

o an entrepreneur

o an opportunist

o to take a chance

o to make a fortune

o a half-baked idea

o to chew over an idea

o to be the main breadwinner

o to save for a rainy day

o unprecedented/modest success

o to bring out the best in people

o to be doomed to failure

o to blow it

o to be quite a feat

o to suffer a setback

o to do something as a last resort

Ask students in pairs to discuss the following questions. Encourage the use of vocabulary
 1. Talk about a successful person you know

2. Is success important to you?

3. What is your biggest success in life?

4. Share with your partner a time when you failed at something. What happened? How
did you feel?
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achieve an objective/goal/target The division has achieved its objective of

being a major force in home entertainment.
It is hard to see how these projects can achieve their potential .
achieve success/profitability/savings
He amply fulfilled the weight of expectation that they had placed on him.
adequately | properly | effectively | successfully | admirably The building is still
fulfilling its original purpose admirably. | finally, ultimately
dismally, miserably I tried to cheer her up, but failed miserably. | spectacularly The
show didn't just fail, it failed spectacularly.