hello hello hello everybody my name is steve ford welcome to your english lesson our first lesson
of this year and many people have already made what we call new year's resolutions
new year's resolutions are promises that you make for doing something in the new year so
we're going to develop some vocabulary we're going to talk about it so you stay tuned
so i'll give you an idiom you could say that you're trying to get back on track that means that
if you are a train you're trained got off track during the holiday season eating some good food
drinking some good drinks and some of those can be very rich very sugary and of course
we all gain a little of the holiday pounds so the most popular one on the top 10 list is i will eat
healthy again now you'll notice that i use the adjective healthy and not the adverb healthily
healthfully well why do we do that we should say healthily i will eat healthily again but
it's just too darn hard for native speakers to pronounce so we would say i will eat healthy again
so will you eat healthy again from the instagram post and facebook posts that i've seen a lot of
people are posting pictures of the new january diet of fruits and vegetables another good way
to get back on track to return to the kind of lifestyle that you want to have is i will exercise
more now in case you're wondering this i will is when you make a plan when you make a promise
to do something and that's different from going to you probably might remember this
from your english courses that going to is when it's going to happen i'm going to exercise
could be i'm going to do it right after this video next one is i will start a diet
yes so not just eating healthy but some people they want to lose more weight they want to cut
down dramatically on their food this is a great phrasal verb to cut down on certain foods means
that you reduce what you're eating maybe you don't need to diet some people they do it another way
they will do fasting this is an interesting thing to do it's very popular nowadays where
you don't eat anything for let's say 16 hours and that time that you're not eating is called
fasting that's why we use the word breakfast it breaks the fast from our last meal the
night before to the next morning breakfast do you let me know are you interested in starting a diet
i'm sure many of you are i myself i i've tried dieting you can watch my videos through the years
i've been kind of like an accordion going in and out and for me personally the best diet is just to
eat less and exercise next one learn something new so i have a lot of students who are interested in
learning a new language or maybe you want to learn to play a musical instrument maybe you want to
learn how to ride a motorbike the next one i will travel somewhere i will travel somewhere possible
to travel somewhere there might be some bumps in the road there might be a few things that you need
to deal with but yeah that's an interesting plan is that you could travel somewhere really nice by
the way when i'm saying i will native speakers usually will not say it in its full form so we
would use the contraction here we would say i'll i'll travel somewhere this year i'll
now that's hard you have to really get your tongue working there you have to have an acrobatic tongue
yes and say isle that's more natural if you can say it that way i will meditate or i will pray
these are two things that a lot of people think about doing as a plan for the next year
it helps them to be calm relax and to be in touch with god with their deeper selves i will
use my cell phone less well everybody that i've given this lesson to has told me no
they will not use their cell phone less of course it gets to be a little much when you're
using your cell phone in bed when you can't go to the bathroom without your cell phone
the next one is a resolution that a lot of my students have i will throw away old clothes
or i will clean out my closet i will clean out my wardrobe now a lot of my students told me that
when they are getting rid of that means throw away getting rid of their old clothes first of all they
think it's very important which it is it kind of gives you a new life they will give their clothes
to some family member a niece a nephew somebody in their family who maybe needs the clothes
i remember there was one person sometimes she put her clothes up for sale online i will make
more money is another popular one many people are thinking about making more money they have their
projects they have their plans they're thinking big the sky is the limit so i will make more money
i will spend more time with my family well i know that it's a little difficult maybe you're far away
from your family but of course we can always meet up with them that's a nice phrasal verb online
in many people do i know that a lot of people they send messages to each other on whatever messenger
they're using so that they can keep in touch they can maintain the contact so that's a big one i
will spend more time with my family in some way i will read less news yes we know that we need to
follow the news and know what's happening in the world look out our window and see what's happening
outside our house or apartment but of course the news nowadays well it can be a little negative so
sometimes following the news less can be a good thing okay everybody so i'm gonna make this lesson
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