4A Listening and Vocabulary A radio phone in on how to motivate yourself

• I can recognise word clusters in fast speech and talk about motivation.

Recognising word clusters in fast speech

The first exercises are audio listening tasks, so they are not curated here.

Ten prepositional phrases from the phone-in

Now the prepositional phrases from the recording.

1 After a few weeks, I run _ _ steam and stop.

2 Someone who would check _ _ me from time to time.

3 Someone to pat you _ the back _ your achievements.

4 I’m really _ _ going, it sounds great.

5 I’d love to go abroad ___ a change.

6 I know that there’s a lot ___ stake.

7 ___ personal experience, I know that …

8 I can sometimes lose faith ___ myself.

9 One of my favourite motivational quotes ___ far is …

10 We have to be willing to step _ _ our comfort zone.

1 Why do you think people are often reluctant to do something different?

2 If you were trying to learn a new skill, but losing motivation, what could you do to get the motivation back?

3 Who is the first person you would tell about an achievement, so they could congratulate you on it?

4 What would you be interested in doing: learning to drive or learning to ski? Say why.