Goals

Prompts

1. Do you think it's important for people to follow their passions even if it's not practical? Why or why not?
2. How important is it for people to have support from family and friends when pursuing their dreams?
3. Do you think it's common for parents to discourage their children from pursuing a career in the arts?
4. Do you feel like you've grown up a lot in the past few years?
5. What were your aspirations when you were growing up?
6. How much do you think the world changed while you were growing up?
7. Can you think of a time when someone you knew acted in an immature or irresponsible way, and you wanted to tell them to "grow up"?
8. How do you think people's experiences and environment can affect their process of growing up?
9. Do you think it’s important to always have future goals?
10. What are some short-term goals you have? What about long-term?

Vocabulary

• goals
• dreams
• aspirations
• planning
• future
• mature
• agenda
• spontaneous
• experience
• adult
• child
• passionate
• practical
• occupation

Idioms:

• Go the extra mile
• Beyond your wildest dreams
• The sky is the limit
• Kill two bird with one stone
• Turn over a new leaf
• Start from scratch
• Blood, sweat, and tears
• A clean slate
• At all costs