No to resolutions!

Compétences

Culture : je prends conscience des différences culturelles.
Parler en continu : je prends la parole pour raconter, décrire, expliquer.

Did you know?

Happy New Year! Resolutions date back to a long time ago. Babylonians promised their gods they would pay their debts. Romans made promises to the god Janus. In the Middle Ages, knights took a vow to reaffirm their loyalty to chivalry. Did you make any New Year’s resolutions?

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Speak

1
Vote for the best and the worst resolution.

2
Create your own Post-it board with your classmates.

3
Survey your classmates.

4
What’s the best resolution you have ever taken? The worst? Use superlatives.

5
Match the 2 parts of the sentences, then say if you will do that or not.

I will eat
I am going to
I will play
I won't watch

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Resolutions

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Listen

1
Identify the situation and the topic of the conversation.

2
Reorder the story. Use link words.

3
What is it like in your family? Do you take resolutions?

4
Complete the dialogue:

"Dad, you’re always for dinner !"
"Ok, I promise I’m going to leave earlier.
But you never set the , do you?"
"True! I promise tomorrow I !"

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New Year

New Year's Resolutions

Last year I did some rotten things.
This year I will be better.
Here are some resolutions
I will follow to the letter:
I won’t make dumb excuses
when my homework isn’t done;
when the truth is that I did no work
’cause I was having fun.
I won’t fly paper airplanes
when the teacher isn’t looking.
I won’t sneak in the kitchen
just to taste what they are cooking.
I will not twist the silverware
to see how far it bends.
I will not take the candy bars
from lunch bags of my friends.
I will not skateboard down the hall
or skateboard down the stairs.
I won’t run over teachers,
and I won’t crash into chairs.
I will not do these rotten things;
my heart is full of sorrow.
But I have got some brand-new tricks
to try in school tomorrow.

New Year's Resolutions, Bruce Lansky

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Read

1
Focus on the title and guess what it will be about! Identify the narrator.

2
List the rhymes and study their pattern. Explain what you have understood. Use will or won’t and reformulate.

3
Practise reading this poem aloud with exaggerations and feelings.

4
Create your acrostic poem!

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I will be a rebel!

Recite a poem

Use Voki. You’re a rebellious poet. Recite a poem about your non-resolutions. Take the stage and act like a rebel!

How far can you go?

A2 I can recite a poem using will.
A2+ I can show my feelings when I recite my poem.
Vers B1 I can take original non-resolutions and rebel!