New Year’s Resolutions & Habits

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LESSON DESCRIPTION

New Year’s Resolutions & Habits is a pre-intermediate ESL lesson plan (A2–B1) that helps students talk about habits, goals, and motivation when making New Year’s resolutions. Through discussion, focused vocabulary work, and listening to an expert, learners explore why people lose motivation and how realistic goals and discipline can help them succeed.

The lesson develops vocabulary, listening comprehension, speaking fluency, and writing skills while encouraging learners to reflect on their own habits and resolutions.

Why Choose This Lesson?

• Discussion-Led Warm-Up & Vocabulary Activation
  Students start with guided questions about daily actions, habits, and New Year’s plans. Key vocabulary such as habit, resolution, goal, motivation, and discipline is introduced in a meaningful, personal context.
• Clear Vocabulary & Collocation Focus
  Learners practise essential language through matching, sentence completion, and verb–noun collocations such as set a realistic goal, break a bad habit, keep a resolution, and lose motivation.
• Listening for Understanding
  Students listen to an expert explaining why many resolutions fail and identify the main idea of the talk. Follow-up tasks help them recognise problems and match them with practical solutions.
• Speaking for Interaction
  Through pair and group discussions, learners express opinions about motivation and discipline. A guided role-play allows students to practise explaining problems, asking questions, and giving advice using ideas from the listening.
• Writing for Reflection
  Learners write a short message or email about their own New Year’s resolutions and how they try to keep them. This activity helps transfer spoken ideas into clear, structured writing.

Ideal For:

• ESL teachers looking for a communicative lesson on habits and motivation
• A2–B1 learners who want to discuss goals, challenges, and self-improvement
• Lessons combining discussion, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and writing

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Bring something special to your ESL classes! By downloading “New Year’s Resolutions & Habits” from Perfect Teacher today, you can instantly upgrade your curriculum with a high-interest topic and clear A2–B1 language practice. Moreover, students will learn to discuss habits, set realistic goals, and talk about motivation and discipline with confidence. As a result, your lesson becomes more interactive, personal, and meaningful.

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