Class 1 – Tuesday, January 11th

Hello and welcome back! We feel refreshed and eager to start learning more! So, without further ado, let’s dig in right away:

Today we’ll start by warming up a little and talk about the holidays and New Year’s resolutions!
Are you the type to get all excited about the New Year and make a hundred New Year’s resolutions only to never follow through? Or do you stick to your plan until the end? Do you believe in the „New Year – New me“ thing or is it just a hype?
Did you make any New Year’s resolutions last year and did you get around to it? Do tell!



Homework: Read the following article so we can discuss it next time: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/10/struggling-with-new-year-resolutions-willpower

Class 2 – Thursday, January 13th

Today we’ll continue talking about New Year’s resolutions and we’ll start by discussing the article we had for homework.

We’ll move on with the following video on making realistic resolutions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyOHUOTQ8g&t=97s

We’ll then try to answer these questions:
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=79CFF252BEEA0A7D!214&authkey=!APcwP8lKWjDTlQM

We’ll do some activities related to New Year’s resolutions vocabulary that will help us and be useful for writing as well:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/intermediate-b1/new-years-resolutions

We’ll finish with a couple of phrasal verbs related to making New Year’s resolutions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2010/01/100107_6min_resolution_page.shtml

And a Baamboozle to give us more to talk about:
https://www.baamboozle.com/classic/825961

Homework: watch a video and try to remember the New Year’s resolutions made and mentioned in the video so we can talk about it next class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QF_HIpRomM