Quote Of The Day: Michael Jordon On Success

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed" - Michael Jordan

Vocabulary in the quote:

• To miss a shot = Not to put the ball in the basket. 
• To be trusted to do something = When people trust you, believe in you, or depend on you to do something correctly.

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PRACTICE AND THINK IN ENGLISH

• Do you agree with the idea that to succeed, you must fail?
• When was the last time you failed in order to succeed in doing something?
• When was the last time a person trusted you to do something?

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Quote Of The Day

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." 

- Winston Churchill

PRACTICE AND THINK IN ENGLISH

• Have you recently succeeded in doing something? 
• When was the last time you failed?
• What do you think Winston Churchill meant when he said that "Success is not final?"
• What role does courage have in life?

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Quote Of The Day

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel (the feelings you gave them).” 

- Maya Angelou

Grammar Point

• You make someone feel something. You make a person feel good, bad, happy, sad, angry, upset, etc.

Examples:

I make my children happy when I play with them.

My boss makes me angry when she does not take into account (consider) the work I do when my colleague is absent.

PRACTICE AND THINK IN ENGLISH

• Do you agree or disagree with the quote? Why?
• When was the last time you made someone feel good? 
• When was the last time you made someone feel bad?
• What was the best feeling a person gave you? 
• What was the worst feeling someone gave you?

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Quote Of The Day

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

- Scott Hamilton

Vocabulary 

• A quote (also quotation) is a passage or citation of a text.

• A disability is a handicap or a disadvantage.

PRACTICE AND THINK IN ENGLISH

• Do you agree or disagree with the quote? Why?

• How can a bad attitude be a disability in life?

• When was the last time a bad attitude affected you or the people in your life?

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