Lesson 11 – Long-term goals

The topic of this lesson is long-term goals. I had time to:

• discuss future hopes and dreams
• focus on phrases to talk about the future
• practise using contractions (short-form) to sound more natural.

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“For the foreseeable immediate future” – In the lesson – I expect you’ll have an opening discussion section as usual. After that I think you’ll also listen to two tapes about two people’s planning about their life and expectation on their local city and country. While I was listening to the tapes, I though of conversion between us at one time at a bar – one of the speaker Ms. J shares a similar targets like yours.

NOTE:

• at one time – in the past
• at a time – during any one period (per time)
• at the time – at the particular point when something was thought of or done (當時)
• at times – sometimes

In terms of her education and career planning –

In the short term,she expect she’d be promoted to a high position. At that moment, she had already been the right hand woman – deputy manager in the company. and she had noticed that her boss were going to leave. “At the moment, I’m deputy manager, but my boss is planning to leave in 6 months, I‘ll definitely apply for her job and I expect I’ll get it.” Ms J said.

“Looking ahead (= Looking at the long term), I’d really like to use my experience to open up a shop.” she added. However, it is not a easy task to – if we want to, we’ve got to sort out a business plan.“I’ll need to raise some capital.  I’am pretty sure I can borrow some of the money from my family, and I’ll probably need to take out a loan as well. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do, and I think I can make it happen.“she dare to tell.

Next, Ms J also tell you about how does she spend her free time. She loves exercise – as she said “I’ve always loved exercise.” She thought to do a 10km run – that was her target. If you are listening to the same recording, I expect you’ll probably hear her saying “A real achievement would be to do the 10km run in 6 months – that’s my target. I’ll definitely do the training if I put my name down for it. My friend runs an orphanage, so I’d like to raise sponsorship money for it by doing the run.”

Also, Ms J believes that a couple of hours a week (to help out with the children) can make big difference to their lives and a couple of her friends are also interested, so they’d meet up but they’d doing something useful somehow.