Fireworks at New Year
This week Dan and Kate discuss their New Year's resolutions and hear what some people are promising themselves for 2010.
This week's question:
What is the most common goal for people making New Year’s resolutions? Is it:
a) to sort out their finances and money
b) to lose weight
c) to learn a new language
Listen out for the answer in the programme!
Vocabulary
- resolution
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a plan to improve yourself
- to turn over a new leaf
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to make a new start in your life
- to give up
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to stop doing something
- to take up
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to start something new for the first time
- to carry on
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to continue doing something
- to keep a resolution
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to be successful in achieving the goals you set yourself
- to break a resolution
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to be unsuccessful in achieving the goals you set yourself