EnglishPod - New Year's Resolution
M: Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod! Happy New Year! My name is Marco.
M: It's December thirty-first and we are on New Year's Eve.
E: That's right and since it's New Year's Eve, we're talking about New Year's resolutions.
M: Right, in many places it's very common to make a promise for the New Year.
E: Yeah.
M: Something that you will change.
M: And that's what our dialogue is about today, so, why don't we take a look at our “vocabulary preview” for this lesson?
M: Okay, on vocabulary preview today we only have one word.
M: So, what are eating habits?
M: Right.
E: So, if you eat healthy or if you eat lots of unhealthy food.
M: Or even maybe what time you eat, right? If you eat everyday at certain time.
E: Yeah.
E: Okay.
M: So, we're ready to listen to our dialogue today and it's gonna be a little bit fast, but don't worry about it.
E: We'll come back and explain all of the key vocabulary after.
E: So, Marco, do you think this guy will be successful in changing his eating habits?
M: Hehe. Well, I guess he'll never change, but this gives us a great opportunity to look at some great vocabulary in this lesson in “language takeaway”.
M: Our first word on language takeaway is junk.
E: Junk.
M: Junk.
E: Junk.
M: So, junk comes from junk food.
E: Exactly.
M: Hamburgers.
E: Yeah.
M: Hehe. Okay, our second word for language takeaway – transform.
E: Transform.
M: Transform.
E: Meaning…
E: Yep.
M: Change.
E: Uhu, so, this guy is going to transform his eating habits.
M: He's going to change his eating habits.
M: Stuffed.
E: Stuffed.
M: Stuffed.
M: So, we have some great examples on how we can use staffed and you'll get the meaning from it.
A: Come on! Have one more piece of cake.
C: Oh, I ate way too much! I'm stuffed!
E: The feeling you get if you eat too much food.
E: Yeah.
M: Alright, so, these are some great words that you can use talking about food…
M: And eating habits. Ah, and now we can listen to our dialogue a second time and this time like always it's gonna be slow.
E: There's a lot of great language in this dialogue, isn't there?
M: Yeah, a lot of great language that we can take a look at with our “fluency builder”.
E: The first phrase we have for you is…
E: Yes, we've got some examples of how this phrase is used, so, let's listen.
A: Quitting smoking is so hard.
B: Stick to it! It's good for you!
C: I can't solve this math problem!
D: Stick to it! I'm sure you'll get it!
E: Basically means keep doing it.
M: Right. Even though English learning can be hard…
E: Yeah.
M: Exactly. Okay, let's look at our second phrase for fluency builder – I mean it.
M: Mean it. Well, this is a great way of saying…
E: Yeah.
E: Uhu.
M: Right.
E: Yeah. And our final phrase in fluency builder…
M: Cut out.
E: Cut out.
M: Cut out.
E: Again, we've got some examples of this phrase as native speakers use it, let's listen.
A: You have to cut out the salt from your diet. No more chips, no more French fries, no more popcorn.
B: It's time for me to focus on my work. I'm going to cut out everything else from my life!
M: Completely remove.
E: Yeah.
M: Okay, some great language, some great phrases in our dialogue today. So, why don't we listen to it a third time? And we'll come back in a little bit.
M: Okay, so, New Year's resolutions are really common and popular thing in North America.
E: It's tradition to make a promise to yourself on New Year's and stick to it throughout the whole year.
M: Right, but the funny thing is that very few people actually stick to their New Year's resolution.
M: The most common ones are I'm gonna quit smoking.
E: Yeah.
E: No.
M: Hehe. I'm gonna quit drinking.
E: Aha.
M: That almost never happens either. On New Year's Eve you're still drinking.
E: I mean it's… it's a bad time, oh, come on!
M: Hehe. And another really common one is I'm going to join a gym.
E: That's why gym membership sales are so high in January.
M: Right, everyone joins a gym in January, but by…
M: Yeah, and very few people in a gym.
E: Yeah, so, Marco, do you have a New Year's rev… resolution for this year?
M: Yes, I have a New Year's resolution and I resolve to continue bringing everyone some great lessons.
E: Oh, that's… that's so good.
M: And I think I can stick to that one.
E: Yes, well, I… I do hope that you do stick to that one, Marco.
M: We will, we will, but today we're out of time. So, please go to our website and leave all your questions and comments…
E: At englishpod.com.
M: And, uh, we'll see you there, but until then it's…
M: Bye!