Discuss ambitions and aspirations

Question 1

What would you like to be or to do in 5 years time?

Answer using the word “ambition”

Answer 1

My ambition is to become a professional.

Question 2

Do you have big ambitions for the future?

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Answer 2

What are your aspirations for the future?

Question 3

What is one of your aspirations?

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Answer 3

What one thing do you aspire to do?

Question 4

Are there people who give advice about jobs and careers?

Answer

Answer 4

This people are call career counselors

Question 5

Does it sometimes take years for people to achieve their goals?

Use the word “manage”

Answer 5

After years of trying, do your goals manage to achieve?

Question 6

Did you have any ambitions when you were in school or you were a child?

Use the word “aspire”

Answer 6

Did you ASPIRE TO become anybody when you were in school?

Question 7

What are you focusing on now?

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Answer 7

What aspirations are you trying to make come true?

Question 8

How old were you when you managed to get your first job?

Transform using “achieve”

Answer 8

How old were you when you ACHIEVED to get your first job?

Question 9

If your application is accepted, do you then register with the school?

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Answer 9

If your application is accepted, do you then ENROLL IN the school?

Question 10

Is it possible to postpone your school enrollment?

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Answer 10

Is it possible to DEFER your school enrollment?

Question 11

Will schools sometimes say no to requests to defer enrollment?

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Answer 11

Will schools sometimes DENY requests to defer enrollment?

Question 12

What’s stopping you from achieving your goals?

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Answer 12

What’s HOLDING YOU BACK from achieving your goals?

Question 13

If you would like a master’s degree or Ph.D., do you have to apply to a university that offers these degrees?

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Answer 13

If you would like a master’s degree or Ph.D., do you have to apply to GRADUATE SCHOOLS?

Question 14

Did you go to graduate school?

Option

Answer 14

Did you go to grad school?

Question 15

Has your boss ever denied your request for vacation time?

Answer 15

Has your boss ever SAID NO TO your request for vacation time?

Question 16

• Are you certain to change your job one day?

- Yes

Answer 16

Sooner or later you’ll change your job.

Question 17

• For now, you’ll stay in your current job, right?

- Yes

Answer 17

For the time being, you’ll stay in your current job.

Question 18

Are you happy or satisfied with your current job?

Answer 18

Are you CONTENT with your current job?

Question 19

• Will you graduate a specific day in the future?

- Yes

Answer 19

You’ll graduate some day.

Question 20

• Will you retire someday?
• Yes

But not now, right?

-No

Answer 20

You’ll retire eventually.

Question 21

What happens if people are not content with their jobs?

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Answer 21

What happens if people are not SATISFIED with their jobs?

Question 22

Will they leave eventually?

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Answer 22

Will they leave SOMEDAY?

Question 23

Is there something you want to do someday?

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Answer 23

Is there something you EVENTUALLY want to do?

Question 24

Would you like to take some days off next month?

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Answer 24

Would you like to take A FEW days off next month?

Question 25

Will you stop learning English eventually?

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Answer 25

Will you stop learning English ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE?

Question 26

Eventually, I plan to go back to school and earn a master’s degree.

Answer 26

ONE DAY, I plan to go back to school and earn a master’s degree.