Once a month, Watson’s School of English produces a newspaper, as an aide for teachers and students who want to study on their own and, of course, as an advertisement for the school. One of the features is the word of the month. Here is this month’s.
This month’s word is: Goal
This has been a sports weekend for us, so our word of the month is goal. On Saturday, our 7 year old had a football tournament, so we had a lot of goals to cheer about. Then we watched a lot of very exciting hockey.
I hate it when the game ends in a shootout because the whole game depends on which team’s goalie (or goaltender or goalkeeper) does a better job of defending their goal.
In American football, a field goal is when you kick the ball between the goalposts.
Goals are not only for sports. A goal is something you are determined to achieve, maybe at work, at school or in your life.
We have a story in this issue about a 13 year old boy whose goal is climb the highest mountain on every continent. It is a very ambitious goal.
It is good to have goals. They give a focus to your life and you will never accomplish your goals if you don’t have them in the 1st place.
My goal, as an English teacher, is to teach you English. In some cases, it is an ambitious goal. But, if your goal is to learn English, then I am certain both of us will succeed.
Now, the cool thing about writing is I very often think of new ideas when I get started. I think a lot of writers write because they have a core idea they want to express. For me, writing is more analogous to a long, rambling walk in the woods. I never know what’s going to happen. This article was worth writing for the single line “You will never accomplish your goals is you don’t have them in the 1st place.” I’m going to start living by that.
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