Hello everybody and welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah and I'm Leila and
these videos have been a little bit special as they are part of a series for
12 days of love English at Christmas and today we are talking about New Year's
Resolutions!
So guys we are talking at New Year's resolutions setting at those New Year's
resolutions and we want to know what yours are? That's right guys
New Year's Resolutions are notoriously difficult to keep and we're going to be
sharing ours with you today and our experiences of whether we've kept ours
in the past and we want to know what you guys what your new year's resolutions is
and how much you think you're gonna stick to those in the meantime we're
also going to be learning lots of phrasal verbs expressions lots of
vocabulary so stay tuned so Laila what is your new year's resolution or what
are your new year's resolutions you might have a few I probably should have
a few at the moment I definitely have one and I think it's a really common one
I think it's yeah they're in the top 10 common New Year's resolutions it's just
basically to be a bit more healthy okay healthier so I really need to cut down
on sugar I probably need to cut down on alcohol we'll think about that but yeah
I think for me I just need to eat a little bit more healthy I need to eat
like you. okay you need to eat more healthily like me I don't always eat
healthil,y I do eat like sugar. See mine is actually on the same kind.. in the same
area - to do more sports do more exercise yeah
I do a lot of walking I do a lot of yoga, yeah but I never get my heart
rate going they say that you need to do cardio
don't you you need to do running or swimming so I need to do that yeah
something like that I probably do as well. I think one of my Christmas
presents this year is going to be health related (is it?) there probably healthy Oh
from who? I'm happy ah what is he going to give you a gym membership for the
year no a good present Widom you don't want to join a gym and somebody gets you
a gym membership for the year that would be something helpful so I okay
definitely a little bit healthier right okay what about learning Italian Leila
oh you're just adding to the list improving my entire especially as I'm
gonna be in Italy I am in Italy right now I should be yeah here but she's
there it's all very mysterious yeah Instagram you'll find me in Italy but
yeah so learning Italian definitely improving mine yeah but I think that
really should come up higher even more than eating healthily good okay and yeah
mine is to do more of our kind of business goals as love English business
goals not mine is to write some more courses and to get some of our kind of
joint goals as love English accomplished I'd like to reach we would like to reach
lots of subscribers hopefully 200 thousand subscribers or more by the end
of this year this new year that's coming 2020 that's that's ambitious
we'll see we'll get that no no no not this year by the end of make sure 20
yeah hopefully yeah yeah yeah we can do better hopefully it's gonna be 250 300
yeah so you get minded kind of business related to a little bit health-related
but the thing with New Year's resolutions is that people don't always
keep to them they don't always manage to achieve their New Year's resolutions and
I was reading a little bit about why why this could be and one of the things
which is quite interesting was that the word resolution is quite a strong word
so when people say I've got a New Year's resolution it's quite like it suggests
that they must do it and human nature is that when somebody must do something
when they feel force they actually feel they don't want to so a lot of people
they have then you use resolutions as nice goals but they feel a little bit of
to force to do those things and actually some of the New Year's resolutions they
don't really want to do they just feel they should do so it's doing you know
really want to do yeah exactly do something that you know is much more
kind of realistic for you yeah why do you think people don't keep to their New
Year's resolutions ah because January is a horrible month yeah I think January in
in in the West over here and kind of the northern hemisphere it's dark dingy yet
grey it's just the days are really short so of course you need to have a drink or
eat some chocolate yeah I think it's a bad time yeah New Year's resolutions in
like May or June yeah you're so right yeah good advice as well yeah January
there's like this post Christmas that loses kind of festive season blues or
Lola where you just feel a bit depressed and you've had to go back to work the
holidays over then a lot to look forward to what is to look forwards know you've
got Valentine's pancake day if you're trying to lose weight probably not good
to live winters yeah and it is as Leyla said it is very dark grey here in
England in January and people can feel quite depressed so exactly they're not
gonna feel like eating a big healthy salad or going to the gym they're
probably gonna feel like winter you yeah you need comfort food exactly yeah
so we really want to know guys what's it like in your country do people stick to
their New Year's resolutions or is it is it a thing do you actually make new
year's resolutions you know even some things that you do is Express yeah so
Layla I've got an important question to ask you do you think that you would be
capable of doing do you think you'd be capable of doing dry January which is no
drinking for the whole of January no alcohol yeah not water for Layla I think
I could okay I think I'd miss a gin and tonic at the weekend but I think I could
yeah I I just find anything where you you cut out so to cut it out is to stop
consuming eating drinking something completely and I always think that like
you're saying about having realistic goals in there not necessarily about
cutting out but cutting down so reducing your consumption yeah so I could
definitely cut down long when someone tells me to cut something out I'm just
like why it feels too extreme the stream yeah yeah yeah perhaps reducing as
butter I mean they say that with healthy eating
they say don't stop eating all the burgers and all the chocolate because
then when you do eat it you're going to absolutely binge on it yeah you're going
to have eat a lot at one time or do anything at one one time you know a lot
of anything in one period of time so like binge watching for example watching
Netflix ha ha ha we love doing yes yeah so
probably you're right it's good to reduce rather than say I am NOT gonna
drink for the whole of January I think why people do it is that it gets them
into a different mindset yeah it gets them thinking in a in a better healthier
way yeah and it does take a lot of kind of motivation and kind of what's the
word I'm looking for motivation around resolve yeah yeah but once you've done
it you would automatically be a little bit healthier and yank a little bit less
and definitely in January yes having like a new health regime yeah yeah yeah
it's just it's just isn't it yeah and that is the nice thing about January or
it should be is that it's a chance to start the year off on the right foot so
as a chance to sort of start things again as Leila said reset a fresh start
you can wipe the previous year away all the bad habits of God it's a chance to
have a new beginning and hopefully I mean I do hope that lots of people do
you know manage to start being healthier and things like that
although I did read a depressing statistic what's that and that was only
8% of people in the UK achieve their news resolution so actually a 25% so
only 25% managed to stick to them in January stick to means keep keep them
even in January so I think a lot of people think right I'm gonna not have a
drink for two weeks so I'm gonna cut down but then by the third week of
January the wine is a day Wow yeah ultimate with your mum you've been there
Layla I think though in January you you feel you need to do something extreme
because yeah you've often overindulge over the Christmas area they eat you
much they drink too much and they feel a bit rubbish yeah by the time it gets the
you know it is just yeah an extreme extreme detox
yeah can be a t-table it but it can be lots of things I mean perhaps we should
talk about our ones from last year this year and if you kept to them I never had
any I've know oh wow I will this year I will it will be eating more healthily
and learning Italian well done but yeah I'll start while in wine okay yes that
will inspire you who I like I do we're Italian yeah for sure
mine were mine was to learn keep up with my Spanish Italian a bit tiny bit I
didn't really keep to mine enough to be honest I find it hard to have the time
we haven't had the time yeah I think I think that's the other thing with New
Year's resolutions people sometimes say things that they would love to do but
actually realistically again have they really got time for that I mean I love
salsa dancing and I wanted to do salsa dancing this year I haven't had the time
I just managed to keep to yoga yeah it's not too bad
yeah things that you did yeah yeah that class also having a good mindset yeah it
might and a good piece of vocabulary here is guys don't beat yourself up
there I was beating myself up I haven't done this haven't in that and that's not
very nice to be if you have beating yourself but making yourself feel bad
yeah yeah exactly well done me I did keep two so that is it guys we want to
know what your new year's resolutions are and give us some tips share tips
yeah how do you do how do you keep to them how do you stick to them how do you
say determined and motivate and and our New Year's resolutions guys are they
thing in your country or what do you do to kind of recognize that the new year
is a new chance to start again what do you do to mark the new year thank you so
much for watching we cannot wait to see you in the new year loads more lesson
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