W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

5
1.
Rich people are more successful than poor 
people.
2.
i like to play games like lottery where i can win 
money.
3.
It is important to have a job that pays well then a 
job I enjoy. 
4.
i grade my success by the amount of money i 
have. 
5.
Spending money gives me a lot of pleasure.

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post-reading Time: 10 min.
aim:
practising the learned vocabulary.
4. 
Ask students to work with a partner and complete the following table. 
You hope you will be successful in the future. Your partner will be a person who 
helps you achieve that goal. Complite the table discribing your partner’s action.
My goal is...
My partner would be... 
I would say...
students' own answers.
REvIEW 10 sKIlls FOR sUCCEss 
I. listening
I. Evaluate your listening skills according to the statements below in the 
5 point scale:
5.
i can listen to and easily understand
everything related to skills for success.
4.
i can listen to and understand most things.
3.
i can listen to and understand some things. 
2.
i can understand a few things. 
1.
i cannot understand anything.
mark / 10
 (points are doubled, for example, 5+5=10)
II. Reading 
Become a confident learner.
a) Fill in the gaps using the words in the box.
winner, persuaded, improve, useful, interesting
, 
aimed, meeting, active, 
confident, showing
Many adults are going back to school or seeking (1)_________________ learn-
ing experiences. With our changing economy and culture, many adults who 
thought they were done with “school” are finding themselves back in the class
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room. For some it’s an (2)_____________________, for others their worst 
nightmare.
Why are so many of us afraid to learn something new and (3) 
________________our knowledge? Why do we feel it will be “hard” to change?
There are a variety of reasons for (4) __________________. Bad 
learning ex-
periences in the past may have encouraged a negative view toward formal 
learn-
ing
. We may have been teased for asking a question. We may be afraid of fail
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ure rather than being a (5)___________. We may just be feeling stress and fear 

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of the thought of what may seem like starting over and (6)____________. We 
may not have been (7) __________________to be a lifelong learner.
We forget that we are (8)___________at learning everyday of our life! We 
are having new experiences, applying things we learned in the past to new 
things, we’re visiting new places, reading new 
books, 
(9) ______________new people.
Whether you’re learning because you must or just for fun, what I wish for 
you is to become a(10) _______________learner and to be able to do or learn 
anything you desire!