New Year's Resolutions

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Happy New Year!

2025

What are we going to do today?

- Look back on 2024 

- Discuss new year's resolutions

- Write your own new year's resolutions

- Check your tests

What things did you learn/achieve last year

What is a new year's resolution? Why do we make them?

What do you think are the most common new year's resolutions?

Why do people break their new year's resolutions?

Vocabulary

to set a goal                                      to improve 

to break a habit                               to stick to something 

self-discipline                                  to make progress 

to achieve a goal                            to fail 

Write a sentence for each of the above words.

Write your new year's resolutions (3x)

New year's resolution: 

Step 1: Why? 

Step 2: How? 

Step 3: When? 

Discuss your resolutions in pairs

Every student has to present their 3 new year's resolutions to their neighbour. Do so by answering the following questions for  each resolution:

What is your New Year’s resolution?

Why do you want to achieve this goal?

How will you stick to it? (Wat ga je doen om het vol te houden?)

Your neighbour has to ask questions afterwards and/or give tips.