Unit 9 Lesson INGZ0444-5486 INGLES AVANZADO II

​Choose three characteristics that people need most to become successful.

The ability to adapt, hard work, intelligence, luck, passion, persistence, a sense of humor, vision

• ​Vision: an idea or mental image of something.

• ​Persistence: the ability to keep doing something difficult.

• ​Passion: a very powerful feeling/an extreme interest in or wish for doing something, such as a hobby, activity, etc.

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Retrieved from: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/

• get anywehere: ​to make progress toward a goal.

• ​get off the ground: to start

• ​get under way: to start

• ​get off to a good start: start out well.

• ​get down: make someone unhappy.

• ​get on: to continue

• ​get in their way: to stop

1. You won't get ahead / get anywhere in life or get to the top of your career if you don't like what you do.

2. It's not hard to get a business off the ground / get a business under way, but only businesses that get off to a good start will be successful.

3. You won't get anywhere / get ahead in life if you don't have a passion.

4. Failure only gets to be a problem if you let it get you down.

5. Successful people don't let anything get in their way. They get on with building their businesses.

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Starting things off: get off the ground, get off to a good start, get under way

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Problems: get in the way, get somebody down

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Making progress: get ahead, (not) get anywhere, get on with, get to be, get to the top

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​Choose a successful person and write a paragraph about him or her using the article in Exercise A as a model. Choose one of the qualities from the article (vision, persistence, passion) to introduce the person, as in the article. Pairs read their paragraphs to the class.

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​Write the paragraph in a Padlet link.

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Plural nouns, positive

All successful people have a vision.

All (of) these people were successful.

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Plural nouns, negative

No successful people get ahead easily.

None of these people graduated from college.

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Uncountable nouns, positive

All (of) their hard work paid off.

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Uncountable nouns, negative

None of their hard work was wasted.

Singular nouns, positive

Each entrepreneur was successful.

Every restaurant rejected the recipe.

​Singular nouns, negative

No entrepreneur wants to fail.

No restaurant accepted the recipe.

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Both (= two), positive

Both products got off to a good start.

Both (of) these men became billionaires.

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Neither (= two), negative

Neither product was a success at first.

Neither of the men let failure get them down.

1.All successful people know you need a vision.

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2. Both men became billionaires.

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3. Neither product sold at first.

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4. None of them graduated college. 5. No success comes easily.