Talking about success and failure

Exercise 52.1

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Complete these speeches congratulating people on various types of success.

Over the years, Henry has (1) the respect of his colleagues, and now, as he retires, we all hope he can enjoy the (2) of his many years of hard work. His career has been a (3) success, and he has (4) an enormous contribution to our profession. Thank you from all of us.

As Head Teacher I am proud to say the school has had a great year. 87% of students (5) their exams with grades B or higher, while the remaining 13% (6) good or very good marks. The school rugby team has done well; its (7) achievement was winning the regional championship. We believe that Garfham School (8) out the best in our boys and girls!

Our research team has (9) a breakthrough and the success of the project is now (10) . It has been a (11) achievement. We must now (12) advantage of the excellent progress we have (13) and find more (14) ways of persuading the public of the importance of our work. I know we (15) the ability to do this successfully.

I am delighted to present our annual school Language prize to Tom Linton. Tom now has an excellent (16) of five major languages, which will certainly (17) in useful. Tom was not always a brilliant language learner, but his work showed a (18) improvement. Well done!