Setting and Achieving SMART Goals
ESL Lesson PlansSetting and Achieving SMART Goals

Setting and Achieving SMART Goals

Setting and Achieving SMART Goals is a B1‑level vocabulary worksheet designed for teen and adult English learners to build useful goal‑setting language and expressions. The lesson plan guides students through structured activities including discussion of quotes, reading a short text, discussion questions, and short writing tasks applying the SMART framework to personal goals. These varied exercises help learners understand and use the target language confidently in real‑world discussions about planning and achievement.

Skills

  • Can give detailed accounts of experiences, describing feelings and reactions.
  • Can describe dreams, hopes and ambitions.
Online Interactive
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1

Read these quotes. In pairs, discuss what you think they mean.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
- Bill Copeland
Your answer:
2

Read the article. What is a SMART goal?

3

Answer the questions about SMART goals.

4

Discuss these questions with your group.

5

Set a SMART goal.