IELTS Vocabulary – Goals

Watch and learn new IELTS vocabulary about Goals from a native English speaker.

The video contains a full high band IELTS model answer. Grab a pen and paper and write down any new words you hear. There are also English captions to help you follow along.

Vocabulary:

Nouns: 

• characteristics – a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them.
  “certain defining characteristics of the school emerge from the study”
• traits – a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person.
  “the traditionally British trait of self-denigration”
• determination – the quality of being determined; firmness of purpose.
  “those who succeed because of sheer grit and determination”
• concentration – the action or power of focusing all one’s attention.
  “she was frowning in concentration”
• discipline – the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience.
  “a lack of proper parental and school discipline”
• ambition – a strong desire to do or achieve something.
  “her ambition was to become a pilot”
• parenting – be or act as a mother or father to (someone).
  “exhaustion is incompatible with good parenting”

Verbs: 

• set goals – create targets, make goals
• achieve – successfully bring about or reach (a desired objective or result) by effort, skill, or courage.
  “he achieved his ambition to become a press photographer”
• develop – grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
  “motion pictures were to develop into mass entertainment”
• aim for – strive for, try to, want to do something
• motivate – provide (someone) with a reason for doing something.
  “he was primarily motivated by the desire for profit”
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