My 2024

Little Word

Step 2: Learn

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 Step 2: Learn
Step 2: Listen to a personal testimony and take notes.

Year Year Year

Word Word Word

For each « word of the year », pick out her justifications and
examples.

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 Step 2: Learn
Step 2: Listen and complete these extracts from the script.

• I really w_____ __ r______ a lot of different things.

• Anything in my life that I w_____ __ g__ r__ of.

• I really w_____ __ s____.

• I w_____ my p__________ to s____.

• I d__’_ w___ to just g___.

• I w___ __ to b_ really great growth.

• I w___ my f_______ to f_______.

Step 2: Listen sum up. Why did she choose the word « flourish » as
her 2021 little word? What did she want? What didn’t she want?

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 Step 2: Learn Step 2: Find 10 possible words in
this grid. Look up for their
definition in the dictionary. Bonus:
find a synonym or an antonym.

T E V O L B N O A W U Z N F P E P E L S N B Y I X
H N G R L D O L B T I O A H E E G E S WQ L T E K
M Y E S L Y I I Q R I I X S A N R E A Z T I I C V
R F E M J T T G P T Z N F Y E P N S C C A S R N W
P D D L H T A N A T H D O L T L P O P B E S G A J
C D F P I S Z N U X V D L G U I N I D E S B E LW
O E N I L P I C S I D A N F T S V X N Q C X T A E
M R H I D G N L O U H U E C I N X I P E F T N B C
P M A D A S A T P C F T X S P T E R T I S J I H T
A J R M H F G C N M A P T MW K O M S A D S C V J
S E I E Y A R Q J R O E F O R G I V E N E S S N E
S E P G T M O I G S N C Y O R T S Q L V V R P E U
I B P O M B P C E C S R C E B S I G K S O V C P A
O T A N H I P X Y N H E S A E S C N Z S B R WD Z
N U U F R T O E K I D S N C R O P P G E N B P S J
G U U O R I R X S ZW S C D N H O C V N U K J M K
C P P J J O T L G G P U H F N WH D F LW I Z C I
F O U Q A N U F U Z S I I I E I N L N U O M U WM
B D B G N I N R A E L D N R P M K S E F Z Z V A X
S F H B U Q I O B R E B R A V E R Y O D B U Y M I
F C Z G H Q T O I N N O I T A R I P S N I B O F E
H Z U F B Z Y B C A B U N D A N C E Y I T U K W F
C T G F W K U E G Z P R J Q Z U K N L M H N P F I
U X D C E V H B WG Y O L M I K Z X H C P H Q X Y
C A C C E P T A N C E B O N B F W K H C U G F M S
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 Step 2: Learn
Help zone: Find these words in the grid.

ABUNDANCE ACCEPTANCE ACCOMPLISHMENT

Abondance
AMBITION BALANCE BLISS

BRAVERY CHALLENGE COMPASSION

CONFIDENCE CONSISTENCY CREATIVITY

DISCIPLINE FORGIVENESS FRIENDSHIP

GRATEFULNESS HAPPINESS HOPE

IMAGINATION IMPROVEMENT INSPIRATION

INTEGRITY KINDNESS LEARNING

LOVE MINDFULNESS OPPORTUNITY

ORGANIZATION PEACE PERSPECTIVE

POWER PROGRESS SUCCESS

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 Step 2: Learn
Step 2: Read this extract from an article.

Here are some simple questions to help you find your word of
the year:
•How was this past year?
•Were there things you didn’t like?
•Was there anything you began working on?
•Did you feel the need to improve something in your life?
•Was there something really negative that happened to you?
•What’s a word that is a positive alternative to that event?
•What do you want more of in your life?
•What do you want less of ?

Use a pencil to underline every word you understand in this

definition. Then do the following activities:

• Highlight the main objective of this article.

• Concentrate on punctuation, what do you notice?

• Find synonyms for the following words in the text:

Appreciate – started – make better – took place – experience.

Inprove
• Find two pairs of antonyms in the text.

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 My 2024
Little Word

Task 2: Quiz

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 Task 2: Quiz
Task 2: Use the questions from step 2 to help your friend choose
their word of the year.

•How was this past year?

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The past year went well.
•Were there things you didn’t like?
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Yes, I didn't like the September school year

•Was there anything you began working on?

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Yes, I started writing a book.

•Did you feel the need to improve something in your life?

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Yes, my life
•Was there something really negative that happened to you?
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Yes, 2 negative boxes
•What’s a word that is a positive alternative to that event?
Work
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•What do you want more of in your life?
____________________________________________
More happiness
•What do you want less of ?
Less than score below ten
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