Grandma Fulfills Dream of Flying

B1 – Intermediate

Walt Disney once said, ” All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Mary Moe is a true testament to these words. At age 91, she fulfilled her dream of flying a plane. Truly, Moe and her story inspires people to dream, regardless of age.

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Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you perceive aging?
  2. What are some things you think you will be doing when you are old?
  3. What is your greatest dream? How were you able to reach it?
  4. If you haven’t fulfilled it, what are the challenges that you are facing that keep you from achieving this dream? How do you plan to fulfill it?
  5. Should people realize their dream as soon as they can or wait until the perfect moment to do it? Explain.
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10 replies on “Grandma Fulfills Dream of Flying”

1-I will not known how I will be in the future, but I think is important have a positive mind.
2-I will do things that I can not do right now because my job. For example,in the morning can walk through the countryside.
3-My dream has always been to persue a university degree
4-Sometimes I consider doing it remotely,but It is dificult because of job, when you are an adult.
5-In general we always leave things for another day,but you never known destiny and it can happen. I think you have to do things whenever you can.

Well done practicing your writing skills again.

Take note of these minors but relevant corrections in this sentence in order to improve it:

I will not known how I will be in the future, but I think is important have a positive mind.

I wouldn’t know how it will be in the future, but I think it is important to have a positive mind.

Continue working on enhancing your skills by doing this exercise.

1. How do you perceive aging?
I perceive aging like the natural evolution for the human being and I take it so.
2. What are some things you think you will be doing when you are old?
Some things I think I will be doing when I am old are enjoying the moment with my family, wife and daughters and I hope with my grandchildren too.
3. What is your greatest dream? How were you able to reach it?
I don´t have a greatest dream beyond spending time with my family and living the moment.
4. If you haven’t fulfilled it, what are the challenges that you are facing that keep you from achieving this dream? How do you plan to fulfill it?
I don’t have any special dream like flying a plane or climb the Everest for instance, I wish my family and me arrive to old age healthy and enjoy together.
5. Should people realize their dream as soon as they can or wait until the perfect moment to do it? Explain.
I think everyone who wants realize their dream should make it as soon as possible and don’t wait until the perfect moment, the perfect moment is just that moment.

It’s a great thing that you always make time for your writing practice.

See how you can write this sentence using better word choices:

I perceive aging like the natural evolution for the human being and I take it so.

I perceive aging as the natural evolution of human beings and I take it as such.

Keep it up!

I use to percibe aging like a small ball of snow growing every day. When i was young, the day after to play football, I use to fell very good but now I have pain all over my body. On the other hand, I still feel young.

I have a family and we live in a rental house. My dream is can to have a own home to live. Me and my wife are saving money to reach it, just to give money to the bank…. . The problem we have are a lot, because the price of construct a house currently is very expensive. Maybe in a couple of years we can give ours children a perfect home to live. I’m a positive person, I know what will happen

Thanks for taking the time to write your answers to your lesson’s discussion questions.

Here is something you can revise:

I use to percibe aging like a small ball of snow growing every day. When i was young, the day after to play football, I use to fell very good but now I have pain all over my body. On the other hand, I still feel young.

I used to perceive aging as a small ball of snow growing everyday. When I was young, even though I would always fall on my back from playing football, one day was enough to recover, but now I have pain all over my body all the time. Despite this, I still feel young.

Continue with this exercise to improve your writing more and more.

Dreams are necessary to live. Regardless of age, if you are healthy and have enough money, you should fulfill them.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. It will be better if you can put your answers to all the discussion questions for your succeeding lessons.

Here is another way to express this sentence:

Dreams are necessary to live.

Dreams are necessary in order to inspire us to keep going.

Until your next entries!

I think “aging” is only about mindset. When we are growing up, we need to be fresh, we need to keep happiness on the top of mind, and we never should leave to dream.

We should be active, playing sports, or music or another hobby. I belive that you can getting older with good health and mind if you do things to get it.

Obviously, when you are 70, you can’t do the things that you used to do when you were 18, but you can do another things that your aging let you do.

Good to have you on the PE blog! Good that you are using this platform to practice your writing skills. Remember to write your answers as elaborately as you can.

Take a look at how you can improve this sentence:

I belive that you can getting older with good health and mind if you do things to get it.

I believe that you can grow old and still be in good physical and mental state if you do things to achieve this while you’re still young.

Until your next entry!

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