The activity consists of:

• Write an e-mail to a friend telling him/her your new year’s resolutions and asking about
the other’s plans.
• Practice informal greetings in written messages.
• Express your plans and ask about other’s plans.
• Classify the resolutions from the most to the less important.
• Interact in a written way highlighting the personal significance of resolutions. This is an
individual task. You should interact with the members of the group, give and receive
feedback. You must share your process in the forum! Let’s start!

Hello how are you? Following the instructions in Task 3 of the Activity Guide: New Year's
Resolutions, I want to tell you about my New Year's resolutions and I want you to tell me
yours.

Angie, what do you think for the new year I'm thinking about making some changes in my
life? First, I must focus more on my studies. I have to leave work a little and give higher
priority to my studies.

Of course you must keep in mind that we all set this same resolution for the new year but if
you want you can achieve it, I also plan to leave the country for at least 6 months to look
for other time horizons while I can but not. I don't want to neglect my family who put at
risk. think.

You must think what a crazy couple, but believe me, we have to dream and live as if it were
the last day of our lives, I have a lot to do this new year and many say that 2024 is the year
where everything changes, so apart from being the year where everything changes, I want
to change and be the change, but tell me what you have in mind for this new year, although
mine were only two things, I have a lot to tell you, but I also want to know what you think
and what plans you have, I am wanting to know what you're going to do. this year

Sincerely your classmate

Let’s start! Step 1: Before reading. What is a new year’s resolution? Answer the following
questions in the forum:
• How important is New Year in your city?
• What food/drink is traditional?
• What customs are there?
During reading. Read about the history of New year’s resolutions. Try to guess the meaning
of the unknown vocabulary and use an online dictionary if you need it.

• How important is the New Year in your city?

In the city where I am, the importance of the new year is a party that unites many families
where different traditions are carried out and different qualities are shared such as dances,
foods and omens that should never be missing, they decorate most houses. in my
community and it is a very nice night

• What food/drink is traditional?

There are several meals where I am.
There is the sancocho, the tamales, the night roast, the rice with chicken, the suckling pig.
We also find different traditional drinks such as canelazo, margaritas, cocktails and soft
drinks.

• What customs are there?

In the Customs that are most frequent are
the burning of the Old Year, the 12 grapes, the egg in the glass, the yellow underwear, the
walk around the block with the suitcases, the pockets with lentils, the bath with the 7 bitter
herbs, 7 sweet herbs, the bath with champagne.

Step 2: After Reading. My personal resolutions.

Look at the chart below about personal resolutions:
Complete the following chart with your 3 ‘best’ resolutions and add three more to the
category you want. Post the chart in the forum.
 Post ONLY this chart in the forum (no screenshots!)
My 6 best resolutions
1 Spend time as a couple.
2 Start an exercise routine
3 make my company the most sought after
4 Have higher sales
5 Buy my Car
6 Go out of town

Step 3: Write an email to a friend.

Task: You are going to write an email to a friend telling him/her your new year’s
resolutions and asking about his/her plans. Language focus: Since you are expressing plans
in the future, you need to turn the resolutions into sentences using either “Will” or “Won’t”.
Example: Be kind on social media → I will be kind on social media. Don’t buy things I
don’t need. → I won’t buy things I don’t need.

Hello how are you?

Partner Angie I want to tell you about my New Year's Resolutions, I want and I want you to
tell me yours too.
Angie, look, for the new year I'm thinking about making some changes in my life? These
would be some ideas I have

1. Spend time as a couple.

2. Start an exercise routine
3. make my company the most sought after
4. Have higher sales
5. Buy my Car
6. Go out of town

Angie Do I want you to tell me about your New Year's resolutions?

Of course you must be thinking that we all set this same resolution for the new year but if
you want you can achieve it, I also plan to spend more time as a couple and I want to
continue creating spaces to be able to share with my wife. It may be after my exercise
routines that I want to start doing to have more muscle mass, and also while I exercise I
think about how to take my company to be a number in Bogotá and I think about strategies
to increase more sales so that I have enough money left and can. complete to buy my car
and with the power to define which part of the cities I want and to be able to plan to leave
the country for at least 6 months to look for other time horizons while I can but not. I don't
want to neglect my family that puts me at risk. think.
You must think what a crazy partner, but believe me, we have to dream and live as if it
were the last day of our lives, I have a lot to do this new year and many say that 2024 is the
year where everything changes, so apart from being the year where everything changes, I
want to change and be the change, but ten cents what you have in mind for this new year,
although mine were only two things, I have a lot to tell you, but I also want to know what
you think and what plans you have, I'm looking forward to knowing what you're going to
do. this year

Sincerely your classmate.