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?
4. What's the best resolution you have ever taken? The worst? Use superlatives.
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Game
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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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?
Game
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'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.
Bruce Lansky
New Year's Resolutions
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.