Focus on Words

c. What can the results of your effort be?
to make progress
to fail
to improve
to achieve the goal
my ambition is ...
2. Arrange success words to help you remember them.
starting up - on the top of success
3. Words in use.
Tell a story about how you managed to overcome yourself. Use
the following words.
tried hard, to make efforts, did my best, couldn’t help thinking, it took me
much effort, to fail, to manage/succeed in doing something, to be
disappointed
Discussion point A winner or a loser?
What is your idea of a winner? The society becomes more pragmatic. A winner is
considered a man who is prosperous. If a family is not well-off but they are bringing
up children in love and harmony are they losers or winners? If a man leaves a settled
life and goes away to fight for a cause,after his dream, is he a winner or a loser?
John Evans
The diplomat who cracked
John Marshall Evans, a career US diplomat with
extensive experience in Central and Eastern Europe, was
sworn in as ambassador to Armenia in August 2004. In
February 2005, Evans made a trip to California, the capital
state of the Armenian diaspora. At three different meetings
with Armenian-American groups, when asked about
Washington’s lack of official recognition of the 1915-23
Armenian genocide as a “genocide,” Evans said some
variation of the following: “I will today call it the
Armenian Genocide.”Since this deviated from State Department guidelines, Evans was
eventually asked to resign. Now he is preparing a book about his “intellectual journey”
that led him “rock the boat” of US policy.
Comment on these expressions. What did it mean?
I never in 35 years had encountered a U.S. policy that I could not at least live
with. Certainly not one in my own area of responsibility.
- So it was less that people were saying, you know, “Stop knocking on this
door”; it was more of just like, “Oh, I gotta go fill up my water glass now”?
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