Wednesday, 16 October 2013

A video about success and failure

Here's the video clip we watched in our last class. How do we feel when we see this?

COLLOCATIONS
Success
Make a breakthrough – to make an important discovery or development
Remarkable achievement – a very good achievement
Dramatic improvement – a great improvement
A useful contribution – to contribute something in a good way
Failure
Fail miserably – to be totally unsuccessful
Spectacular failure – extremely unsuccessful
Doomed to failure – certain to fail
Dismal failure – a total failure
Recipe for disaster – will lead to major problems
Phrasal Verb
Come off – succeed; informal. Do you think his plan will come off?



 (English with Jo)

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