This video quiz contains 6 multiple choice questions to test students' deep listening comprehension skills. The whole lesson revolves around the theme of failure and success, attempting to shed new light on what failure really means and how we should deal with failure.

Why do they celebrate the kid's failure in the clip?

Is the guy who invented the burning-resistant pants that still burn to ashes a failure or a success?

Comment on this quote by Thomas A. Edison: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." According to this quote, what is Edison's approach to failure?

Which of the lines from the video clip sounds similar to this quote by Shah Rukh Khan? "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." 

B. F. Skinner said: "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be th best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." According to Skinner, what is another way to look at a failure?

What is common to these three quotes? 1. "Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." (Aisha Tyler) 2. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." (Thomas A. Edison) 3. "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday." (Wilma Rudolph)

Why is it important not to give up in the face of failure?

What is a successful person to you? How do you know when you meet a successful person? How do you measure success?

Have you had any failures in your life that you benefited from in some ways?

Have you heard of any famous people who failed spectacularly at something?

If you feel comfortabvle doing so, please share an occasion when you failed at something you tried. What did you do then?

What successes do you have at learning English?

What role do you think luck has in one's success?

Dale Carnegie said: "Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get." Do you agree with this?

What cost does success have? What price are you willing to pay to become successful?

DISCUSSION: Let's see how students' initial ideas of failure have changed after watching this clip.

DISCUSSION: Discuss some or all of the discussion questions below about failure, persistance and success.

WATCH ANOTHER VIDEO: Watch this message of hope from Nick Vujicic, a guy who was born without limbs: https://youtu.be/0DcqPzO26os

WARMER: Get students to discuss in pairs what comes to their mind when they hear the word "failure". Then get students to share with the whole class.

In this scene Lewis' invention fails but the others celebrate his failure because failure is a natural part of achieving success.

About the animated movie Meet the Robinsons: "Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson, whisking Lewis away in a time machine and together they team up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of fate." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396555/



Meet the Robinsons: Keep Moving Forward - Failure & Success

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Let's do English ESL deep listening: focus on meaning. This video quiz contains 6 multiple choice questions to test students' deep listening comprehension skill…