NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

All the best in the Brand-New 2017 !!!

Mr New Year is well-known for making people to make resolutions.

Why not to get carried away and make a few promises?  

It is always worth a try.

And even if you don't meet your expectations, you'll still be a winner - 

YOU'VE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS IN ENGLISH.

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Today, two ways to do that:

1. Use the phrase:

I WISH I COULD ....

Mine is: I WISH I COULD BE MORE ORGANISED. 

2. Use the phrase:

I WANT TO  (which you can shorten to I WANNA)

Mine is: I WANT TO VISIT 3 NEW COUNTRIES THIS YEAR. or

              I WANNA VISIT 3 NEW COUNTRIES THIS YEAR.

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Now, time for your New Year Resolutions.

Don't be hard on yourself. Make a few but let them be valuable!

If you are a teacher, you can start your first lesson in that very New Year with making e.g. a Resolution Tree with your students.

Make them familiar with the phrase - write it on the whiteboard and give them a few examples of your own plans to improve your life this year ;).

Ask them to write one resolution on a slip of paper - help with the vocabulary they need.

Tack the slips of papers to the board in the classroom e.g. in the form of a tree - you can use it later as a topic for a warm-up discussion about their progress.

You can use I WANT TO with less-advanced students and I WISH I COULD with more advanced ones.

If you like music, there is a song to listen to as a nice finish-off and here it comes:

For I WISH

For I WANT

That's it.

Get up and make your New Year Resolution come true!