HOW TO KICK-START YOUR LANGUAGE RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR

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happy 2021 balloons

It is that time of the year again and I have been racking my brains for an idea to welcome my students on their first day at school. In a flash of sheer inspiration, I just came up with this activity after recalling a video published by @esBritish in January last year. 

The start of a new year might be the perfect opportunity to set new learning goals and help students become more conscious about their learning chances. Let's give it a try! I will kick off by presenting this slide to play the video a couple of times and, fingers crossed馃, it will hopefully spark some interesting discussion. Students will be able to complete the first two questions by getting ideas from the video and some more debate will also come up regarding the last question on the slide. If everything goes as planned, some interesting learning tips will turn up!

Once students are in the mood, I won't let this great opportunity pass by! They will have to take on some strong long-term commitment to their learning habits. To do so, I will ask them to fill the form below with their own top 4 learning goals for the new year. I will keep all their answers safe in a nice box in class until the end of the course. What if we opened them all up by the end of May and found out that they did stick to their goals? We will take care of that when the right time comes!





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