B1 – Intermediate
A New Year’s resolution is an opportunity to gauge our goals or to try something different for the new year. What are some of the changes that you want to happen?
Read the article to know some interesting facts about New Year’s resolutions. Be ready to do some of the speaking activities included in the article.
https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1601/160103-new-years-resolutions.html
Discussion Questions:
- Why don’t people keep their New Year’s resolutions?
- Why do young people make more resolutions than old people?
- What are the good and bad things about New Year’s resolutions?
- Are New Year’s resolutions useful? Why or why not?
- What is one goal or resolution you have this year?
4 replies on “More People to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions”
1.Why don’t people keep their New Year’s resolutions?
People don’t keep their New Year’s resolutions because their aims are too unrealistic.
2.Why do young people make more resolutions than old people?
I don’t know why young people make more resolutions than old people perhaps because young people have more things to amend than old people.
3.What are the good and bad things about New Year’s resolutions?
The good things about New Year’s resolutions are that normally the goals to achieve are good for health, happiness, etc. and the bad things are that sometimes the goals are very demanding.
4.Are New Year’s resolutions useful? Why or why not?
In my opinion New Year’s resolutions are not useful by itself I think that any time in the year is a good time to try to get a goal.
5.What is one goal or resolution you have this year?
One goal I have this year is to try to eat healthier.
You are staying consistent with your writing practice. This is great!
Here is a better way to express this answer without using “young people” and “old people” twice in the same sentence:
Keep writing!
Why don’t people keep their New Year’s resolutions?
In many times are only wishes, but not a real intentions.
There habits that we can´t forget or don´t like to change
Why do young people make more resolutions than old people?
I don´t know the reason, sincerily. It´s probable the young people are more braves and don´t have anything to losse
What are the good and bad things about New Year’s resolutions?
A bad resolution is to say “i´m going to lose weight” or i will to star to go gim. You lie. 🙂 A bad resolutions can be to improve our knwoledge in any thing, improve the english language, to eat better…
Are New Year’s resolutions useful? Why or why not?
It depend for the person, in many times I think is funny at the last night of the year to say “the next year i will to do a master or will go up to Everest”.
What is one goal or resolution you have this year?
To get a Microsoft certification, i did get it
You had been very consistent in practicing your writing during the entire duration of your course.
Here is a sentence that you can edit:
Until next term!