Elicit: What is a New Year’s resolution?
Small group discussion
Are new Year’s resolutions a good idea?
Why is the best way to keep New Year’s resolutions?
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions last year?
Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions?
If you succeeded, what helped you to keep them?
Vocab
Cut down on
Cut out
Take up
Give up
Structure
I am going to give up [verb]ing
I am going to take up [verb]ing
Activity
In pairs make a list of achievable New Year’s resolutions and goals for 2023. Think of 5 new years resolutions for your partner.
Ideas
Learn how to make
Read / watch
A place to visit
Something new to cook / eat
A new experience
Become a better person
“By writing down a list of goals, we are more liekly to achieve them” – To what extent do you agree. By not writing down our goals does it mean that we don’t want to
1. A places to visit:
2. An adventure
3. A book to read
4. A film to watch
5. An experience
6. An food to try
3. Things to do: Bake bread , Spend a day at a medieval forge
Visit a cheesemaker
4.
5. Something to improve my Spanish: Watch the
Improve
Goals and achievement
Why are do you
Vocabulary
Bad habits
Do more of something
Do less of something
Stop doing something
Start doing something
Something you want to learn to do