W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

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to be able to work on your own a lot. Another important characteristic is 
openness to working with others.
 
You’ll need to organise study sessions 
with friends.
answers:
Characteristics that you are expected to have:
1.
independence
2.
to set goals 
3.
self-motivation
4.
openness to working with others
3. 
Ask students to complete the sentences with the words in the box.
goals, friends, characteristics, challenging, plans, qualities, secondary, 
school, increase 
answers:
1. hi, i’m graduating a 
secondary school
this year.
2. i don’t know what 
qualities
I should have in order to study well at high school.
3. Don’t worry. studying at high school isn’t so 
challenging.
4. You should have ability to set 
goals
to improve your work.
5. You should have exact 
plans
and goals to improve your studies.
6. Are there any other qualities that I should have to 
increase
my knowledge?
7. Well, other 
characteristics
that you should have is self-motivation.
8. You’ll need to organise study sessions with 
friends.
post-listening Time: 10 min.
aim:
using the learned vocabulary.
4.
tell students to discuss the following questions with their partners:
Are these qualities above really necessary to have when you study at high 
school? Why?/Why not?
students' own answers.
Grammar Time: 15 min.
aim:
reviewing modal verbs 
must/mustn’t/have to/don’t have to.
 
tell students to look through the grammar spot and elicit the rules from them. 
Write some examples on the board. 
1. 
Ask students to give their friends some advice. Tell them fill in the