Lesson Aims

  • I can understand different points of view as two young people talk about grit, effort and success.
  • I can talk about my own opinion on grit, effort and success.
  • I can observe, analyse and practise language for contrast, purpose and reason.
  • I can learn expressions for success, failure and effort, and use them to share my own ideas.

Materials

  • magazine pages 3-5

Plan

  • page 3/ex. 5 Speaking
  • Group Debate: Nature vs. Nurture
  • Role-Playing Interview: “Secret to Success” Talk Show
    •  students play the roles of a successful person and an interviewer.
    • The interviewer asks questions like:
      • What was the most challenging part of your journey?
      • How did you stay motivated when you wanted to give up?
      • Who or what influenced your path to success?
  • magazine work
    • audioscript

Homework

work on vocabulary notebook and try out some of the learning resources

Incidental Language

  • rhetorical question
  • triumph over adversity
  • growth mindset
  • gender
  • innate
  • nature vs nurture
  • mentor

Error Correction

  • but then I lost motivation in it
  • you have to put an effort to something
  • people who have talent will faster teach
  • you need to born with talent
  • If you talent then
  • Have talent is important, too
  • you can go any lesson and try
  • learn at someone famous