Lesson #1 - New Year Resolutions, Intermediate level. Part 2

TITLE: Lesson #1 - General English, Intermediate level. Part 2

Today we continue previous lesson about New Year Resolution. After you have done Lesson #1 you can do the exercises below.

DAY 1

Step 1:
1) New Year is also the traditional time to make resolutions…
2) The aim of most resolutions is to ‘turn over a new leaf’.
3) A lot of people say that their New Year’s Resolutions are to give up a bad habit or to take up a new hobby.
4) I want to carry on going swimming
5) Resolutions are basically promises to yourself, and like promises, you either keep them or break them.

a) is either to persist with your new changes or to go back to your old routine
b) It’s making a fresh or new start in your life.
c) a kind of promise you make to yourself to improve yourself or your actions
d) to continue to do something as you were before
e) to start a new activity for the first time
f) to stop it

Step 2:
Audio is here

Text version of the script is here.

Step 3:

There are several exercises that can help you learn the words. Do two exercises "flashcards" in the following order:

• First, go to options and choose "ANSWER WITH -> both"
  
  and do two rounds with "Play" button activated and them with "Shuffle" button activated.
• Second, go to options and choose "ANSWER WITH -> Russian"
  
  and do two rounds with "Play" button activated and them with "Shuffle" button activated.
• Then, go to options and choose "ANSWER WITH -> English"
  
  and do two rounds with "Play" button activated and them with "Shuffle" button activated.

After that do one more exercise "Learn". You can install on your smartphone app for this Quizlet platform and do these exercises when you are travelling in the transport or when you are waiting for something or somebody. This app really helps with learning new words.

DAY 2 Will be in the next post continued...

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✿ Materials used: ✿
➪ the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) system.
➪ BBC podcasts, 6 minute English dated 7 January 2010, New Year's resolutions.
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