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4A Success and failure
1 ®4.2 Read the text Match the phrases in bold 1-10 with definitions a-j. listen and check. a keep someone from getting ahead
. or
deve1opmg
1 thrived at school, 2 passing with flying b become known/popular (an item,
Success has always come easily to my brother. He h h
· ·t W en e trend, etc.)
1 colors and then he gota degree from a top-rate umversi y.
. h'ld
told the family he was setting upa business to sell ª new e re
I n's
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e achieve; be successful ata task
toy he'd invented, we all knew he'd make a success of it. And sure d be not justa little unsuccessful, but
enough, within ayear, his product had 3 caught on, and he'd extremely unsuccessful
4 met the ambitious targets that he'd set himself financially.
e do well and prosper in general
And what was I up to all this time? 1was 5 failing miserably "· f get a very high grade on atest
at everything. Or so I thought. Was 16 messing up on my studies
or 7 falling short of my expectations at work? No, 1was working
hard and never 8 missed a deadline.The truth is, 1was failing in my

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g fail to do something by the necessary dat;
h achieve a specific objective decidedin
head. l was comparing myself with my brother and, as a consequence,
advance
nothing that 19 accomplished was ever enough. lt was this feeling of not being as good make mistakes; spoil things
that was1º holding me back. j complete something, but not manage
to meet a required goal
2 ® 4.3 ~omplete th eexpressions in bold with the words in the box. Listen and check.
am6ition ba)lefon bl~me li Jº exp;,ctations lac~tt{g ' ª¡{e suc~efs
1 So the question is, who was to \,lw,t, for this terrible war J
2
He never really '(vtad I itas an actor and, instead, earned a living doing a variety of jobs.
3 The ca urse itself was fa nta stic, lar exceed ing _
my r •~'• c\1,lJ c.•~ . . "' l "
4 Kumar was very motivated. After years of trammg, he was finally able to fulfill h1s m'1,1 'ti" to become a doctor.
s Her skincare company did well. lndeed, it was one of the ~,;, ' e ,', stories of the decade.
6 Yes. therewere difficulties. but Taylor managed to i '••,•t
1
L •ver them and build a hugely successful brand
7 My attemptto tell an amusing story on the subject /.," flat. Nobody laughed - not one personl ·
a So how doesa multimillion dollar company -.&Q_ bankr~ptJ.
9 They clearly didn't like my suggestiqn. lt went o'1er like a lead !
10 He's very practica!, but he's totally ~ in imagination.
4B Expressions with make and take Go back to page 30
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success an
1 ess and failure
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d .¡ng forfll
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1)· infinitives an
tterns ( ·
verb Pª.

4A Brilliant fa11ure
out the success
1 A What do you knoW ab ctures? Apart
stories of the people in the pi I e do you think
ful what es
from being success , 7
· 0 mmon Michael Jord
theY might have in e . t rvieW with seyoncé
B (E)4.1 Listen toan in e nd failure
t on 5uccess a
Dr. Arends, an exper . the pictures ali
What do the four people in
have in common 7 . - the bOX-
. with the words in

2 comple "'e ideas from the intervieW

ead "'" / e,pecl~ Jl""' s•6cess k tbail team hoid him In facl,
~ ,, : o et on the school baS e
"'"º'"ª"'
M,chaeiJ01dao
h,rnd,dn't teth'5
to wock " "fa,lu,e
ha,delt to
g ,~, , í, \\ _the dceam-bUl it made h" moce detecm1ned, and, ,n th,
hlS news,
.. fi t band wasn't the ~ torY in f the rr,ost 5 uccessful perforrners ever
2 seyoncee was
s rsable to • ,c·c º'" faiiUI' t0 become one o likea \ <""-"'- bailoon, Howevec theiPac
en , s e notepad, it went over -=--- '
d h
3 When Apple 1aunched ,ts fi,st etect1orn ded e,eryone's r
wh,ch was t,ased on the sarne technotogy, iatel " ' " '
, success
Go to vocabula'l' p,actice: , t f ,m
and faílul€ of the
page 120,ecbs in pacentheses, Listen
, aga,n
, and check
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complete the adv1ce w1th the corree or

Failing miserablY can help us thrive!

lf you can imagine yourself 5 P "\5ñ- something, you should

Embrace failure. We can learn from our mistakes - but go for it! (do)
that many of the most successful people evei
it's no good 1 them! (ignore)
'J. . were also amazing failures. (exist)
Failure can make us stronger if we don't let it 6
• lfyou mess something up, you should do anything except
2 us back. (hold)
Failure can also encourage us 11) creative. (be) 7i ~ up! (give) -f,a
Mistakes can give us somethin~ JIBL about.
• Th re are ~lenty of ways 8 b(,I(fl failure into success! (turn)

(think)

I th
4 •Match the the
weuse tnhnltt,e:in exercise 3 with rules a-h be ow Th en cead
sentences e Gcammac box,
1

b f verbs such as advise ' encourage ' te/1 ' an d wam + object
a after "'
a ter words such as enough, plenty of + noun O _ ·_
e after superlative adjectives + noun. ' r too + adJect1ve. :!,.
d after words like something, anywhere, and
We use the base form: nowhere.
. /et, make' and he1P + obJect
e after the verbs .
after words l1ke except, but, and th ·
• We use th e -,ng
· form : an. .:1__
g after phrases such as there's nopo,nt . r
h after verbs such as imagine, dislike , keep,
, , s and
no good, + ob·it's
mind and no use. 1.,.
Ject. _3_
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