UNIT 11.

B1.2 PUSHING YOURSELF

EVOLVE
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SOME
EXAMPLE OF • Run a marathon What does pushing Challenge
CHALLENGES • Climb a famous pick yourself mean? yourself / go
• Get a new job farther than you
think you can go.

DISCUSSION:
1. Is studying English a challenge?
2. Do you have to push yourself to study and do your homework?
3. Do you have any tricks, methods, or special way to push yourself to do something you don’t want to
do?
4. Do you think it’s important to have challenges in your life?

USEFUL VOCABULARY: scared – terrified excited – happy – enthusiastic –

calm – interested –worried – anxious – confident – strong.
 11.1 VOCABULARY SUPPORT

 A failure: (noun) is something that is not successful. It cab be a good thing because it may lead to future success.
 Fail: (verb) not succeed
 Success: (noun) achieve the results wanted or hoped for. Favorable results.
 Succeed: (verb) achieve something.
 Successful: (adj.) victorious, fortunate, triumphant.

DISCUSSION:
How to succeed in a job? What do you think is the most important thing a persona can do to succeed? Here some
ideas:
• Believe in yourself
• Have a dream
• Take many risks
• Only do work you care about
• Build a great team
• Use your time wisely
• Not giving up
• Working at success
• Getting over failure
• Keeping up the hard work.
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PRACTICE: Match the phrasal verbs with their definition:

PHRASAL VERBS ANSWER DEFINITION

1 Set up (a Company)
2 Work out
3 Get over something
4 Work at something
5 Keep up
6 Give up
7 Stand out
8 Figure something out
9 Give something up
a. Continue to do something good.
b. To stop trying. To stop doing something.
c. Find a solution to a problem after a lot of thought. Discover. Find out.
d. To stop doing something because it is difficult.
e. To start or do something that requires organization
f. To put a lot of effort into achieving something. Work really hard to get
something.
g. To make things work. Being successful after having trouble.
h. To be very noticeable. To be much better tan other similar things or
people. Distinguish yourself from others.
i. To recover from something. To overcome.
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COMPLETE WITH YOUR OWN IDEAS:

1. I’ll never give up…

2. I’d like to figure out …
3. If you want to stand out, you can…
4. At the moment, I’m working at … How do you react
5. I’d like to give up… when someone tells
6. I can’t figure out… you about a failure?
7. I think it would be interesting to set up…

Oh
that’s
not so
bad