Achieving Success with New Year's Resolutions

1. My New Year’s Resolutions

2. Happy New Year!

3. Auld Lang Syne

5. "Auld Lang Syne," an old Scotch tune, literally means “old long ago,” or “the good old days.” It is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.

6. Auld Lang Syne，原文是蘇格蘭文，是十八世紀蘇格蘭詩人 Robert Burns 根據當地父老口傳錄下的一首非常出名的詩歌，直譯成英文是“old long since”或“times gone by”，意思是「逝去已久的日子」。 Auld Lang Syne這首詩後來被譜了樂曲，除了原蘇格蘭文外，它還被許多國家譜上當地語言。在很多亞洲地區的學校畢業典禮或葬禮中，它常被選作主題曲，象徵告別或情感的結束。在很多西方國家中，這首歌通常會在除夕夜演唱，象徵送走舊年而迎接新年的來臨。它的主調並沒有中文版本那樣感傷，在經典電影《魂斷藍橋》中，此曲還被拿來作為主旋律。

7. New Year’s Resolutions

8. New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

9. How to Make New Year’s Resolutions

10. We live in a throw-away society, and even our resolutions are not immune. Most people fail at keeping them. On average, only about 20% of us keep our New Year’s resolutions. But don’t let the statistics get you down. By following the tips below, you’ll be better prepared to fall into the successful 20% category.

11. Tips for Making New Year’s Resolutions • Limit your number of promises. • Choose a reachable goal. • Avoid choosing a resolution that you’ve failed at achieving year after year. • Create a plan. • Break the goal into smaller goals. • Reward yourself with each milestone. • Ask friends and family members to help you. • Get professional assistance.

12. Make Your New Year’s Resolutions

13. As the New Year is just starting and Chinese New Year is around the corner, it’s a chance for all of us to start over and make resolutions for what we want to change or improve.

14. As mentioned above, the key to making our resolutions work is setting reachable goals. For example, instead of trying to lose 50 pounds in one year, try to lose 10 pounds a year over five years. Keeping that in mind, my New Year’s resolutions are as follows:

15. My New Year’s Resolutions • Eat more vegetables and fruit. • Go jogging twice a week. • Practice Spanish three times a week. • Get more organized. • Smile more. • Spend more time with my family and friends. • Volunteer my time and help others.

16. 【Your Turn! 】 Make YourNew Year’s Resolutions

17. My New Year’s Resolutions • What are your New Year’s resolutions? What will you do to make them come true?Use the following patters to write down your New Year’s resolutions and what you will do to make them come true. • 句型： • I will ________________________. • I hope to _____________________.

18. Write them downon your worksheet!

19. My New Year’s Resolutions.doc

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