2

Goal-setting

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

  • know what goals are
  • know how to set goals
  • know how to achieve goals
  • talk about things that are important to you in life
  • know important areas for goal-setting
  • read and understand ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
  • practise word stress and sentence stress in English
  • learn some synonyms and collocations
  • learn how to write a feature story
  • learn conditional clauses and wish clauses
GOAL-SETTING SURVEY

Tick ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to these.

1.

I think a goalless life is a rudderless boat.

(Yes/No)

2.

I believe that goals are like road maps.

(Yes/No)

3.

I feel big goals can create a fear of failure, but lack of goals guarantees it.

(Yes/No)

4.

I think goals help me to decide what is important for ...

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