Lesson Plan: New Year Resolutions Senior Version

esson Level: Senior 1                       Duration:  45 Minutes

Lesson Title:     New Year Resolutions

(Should be done as first lesson after New Year)

Grammar and Vocabulary

Resolution, Promise

words arising from lesson

I will, I won’t.

Lesson Objectives

Students will identify various bad habits from pictures and create resolutions for them using “I will”/”I won’t” 

Materials Required

A4 pictures representing the following (funny cartoons are best and can easily be found on the internet)

Someone very overweight

Someone lazily sleeping on a couch

Children talking in class

Someone who looks very tired

Someone smoking

Someone studying very late at night.

Someone eating junk food

Someone with no money

Someone drinking beer

Someone playing computer games

Someone dropping litter

Two children arguing 

Preparation

Prepare the pictures. 

Procedure

1 Wish the students Happy New Year

Write “New Year Resolutions” on board.

Elicit meaning of “Resolution” (A promise you make to yourself - may need to also describe meaning of “promise”)

2 Explain that there are different things we can make resolutions about.

Write “Health” on board and elicit a resolution that we can make about health (e.g. This year I will exercise every day.)

Repeat for Study (This year, I will always listen in class.)

Repeat for Family ( This year, I will help my mother with the housework.)

Repeat for Community (This year I will not drop litter.)

Repeat for Other (This year I will practice my guitar every day,)

Write the suggestions on the board.

3 Put the pictures on the board one at a time and elicit what resolution the person in the picture should make. Write the suggestion next to the picture. For each one ask which category it falls into (in a different colour if available).

4 When all pictures are on the board with the suggested resolutions put the students into groups of four.

Tell groups to look at the suggestions for all of the pictures and discuss which resolutions they consider most important.

5. Walk around and monitor. Join groups one at a time to ask their opinions. (I like to play devils advocate and suggest other resolutions.)

6 Elicit feedback from class. 

7 Tell students that EVERY student must now write five resolutions that they will keep this year - One for each category.

8. Monitor and assist as possible.

9 Tell students that their homework for the year is to do all the things they just wrote on the paper.

Notes