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Goal Setting

Why do you want to learn English?

If you have a clear idea of why you want to learn English, you will learn English faster and be more dedicated to coming to classes. In order to know if you have accomplished the reason you have come to class, you have to set goals. Goals can be in different areas; work and career, life and social skills, or they may be personal goals.

Look at the following list and decide what is important to you.

What skills do you need to improve the most?

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Grammar

Life and Social Skills

  • Make new friends
  • Speak and understand friends
  • Help my child with homework
  • Able to communicate with my child’s teacher/school
  • Competent to communicate with the doctor or others in the medical field
  • Understand people on the telephone
  • Read the newspaper or understand the news on TV
  • Read and understand housing
  • Capable of handling emergencies
  • Other

Work and Career

  • Find a job
  • Promote in my job
  • Get a better job
  • Acquire a GED
  • Obtain additional training
  • Enter a new career
  • Earn a degree
  • Start my own business
  • Able to communicate at work
  • Other

Personal

  • Become a U. S. Citizen
  • Able to listen and communicate in English
  • Speak better English
  • Read better in English
  • Write better in English
  • Understand the culture of the U. S.
  • Other
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