- Happy New Year to you all and welcome back!!! I know it's a bit difficult to go back to our daily routine after the Christmas holiday, especially with this weather!! But cheer up, and I am sure that we will also get used to it soon!!
- We all make promises and resolutions from time to time. Especially around the New Year, people promise to give up bad habits and improve their lives. So we will start our brand new year talking about the most popular resolutions, and we will also discuss our own resolutions for this 2010!
- Reading - Resolutions
- Listening - Resolutions. We listened to several American people talking about their resolutions for the New Year. If you missed it, or if you would like to listen to it again...check here:
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-12-31-voa2.cfm - New File...File 2C - Hooked on caffeine
- Let's talk about coffee: Where do you think you can drink the best coffee in the world? / In which cafés can you get the best coffee in Talavera? / What do you call the substance that coffee contains?
- Talking about caffeine... How much do you know about this substance?
- Caffeine... Fact or Myth?
- Fact
- Myth
- M
- F
- M
- M
- F
- F
- F
- M
- Vocabulary: Adjectives + prepositions
- addicted to
- hooked on
- obsessed with
- interested in
- fascinated by / fascinated with
- fond of
- keen on
- mad about
- tired of
- fed up with
- Pronunciation - recognizing emphasis. Remember the importance of stress in English. It is an extremely important tool to help us convey meaning. It can help us express how we feel, so please try to make an effort to make a correct use of stress and intonation when you speak.
Over to you...
http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2007-01/2006-12-31-voa2.cfm?CFID=89759087&CFTOKEN=69132812 – The New Year Begins With Some Resolutions. Two popular ones are to lose weight or stop smoking. Transcript of radio broadcast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7806776.stm - Newspaper article - Resolutions 'bad for your health'.
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