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  • Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words!

  • My name is Alisha, and today we're gonna

  • be talking about 10 phrases that are

  • related to New Year's resolution. So a

  • new year's resolution, resolution is a

  • special word for goal, the goals that we

  • set for the new year, what we want to

  • achieve in one year. So if you set some

  • goals for yourself in January, maybe you

  • can think about how you're progressing

  • towards those goals now, as you watch

  • this video. So let's start!

  • Drink less

  • The first resolution is drink less.

  • So maybe especially during the holiday

  • season, maybe you drink a lot of wine, you

  • drink a lot of beer, you go to a lot of

  • parties with your friends, maybe one of

  • your resolutions is to drink less.

  • In a sentence,

  • one of my new year's resolutions is to drink less.

  • Eat healthy

  • is probably a resolution for many people, in

  • connection with some related goals, and

  • you gain a lot of weight, or maybe your

  • body doesn't feel so good, so you decide

  • I want to eat healthy this year.

  • Exercise regularly, The next one is

  • exercised regularly. Exercise regularly

  • is a huge one for many people as a new

  • year's resolution. Exercise regularly,

  • again, especially following the holidays,

  • eating a lot, drinking a lot, maybe going

  • to a lot of parties, you gain some weight

  • and you want to exercise. This is

  • especially good in winter months if you

  • live in a place where it's cold and dark

  • in January and February, it can be a way to

  • help you feel energetic and to keep up

  • your energy levels throughout the winter

  • months. So in a sentence, I really want to

  • exercise regularly this year.

  • Learn something new

  • so whether it's a

  • language, like, English, maybe you decided

  • to practice English this year, or it's a

  • new hobby, like cooking, or dance, or

  • swimming, or sports, whatever, photography,

  • I don't know, you want to learn something

  • new. If it were me, I would probably

  • specifically say I'm going to learn (bla),

  • I'm going to learn (hobby) this year, or

  • maybe I would say I'm going to start

  • taking lessons in this hobby this year,

  • that would be a way to kind of motivate

  • myself to

  • do that. I've been thinking about taking

  • calligraphy lessons, yeah, because my

  • handwritten Kanji is very bad.

  • Lose weight

  • ok, the next one, this is probably the

  • biggest, most popular, most common new

  • year's resolution, it is lose weight. Lose

  • weight, wanting to be a thinner, slimmer,

  • trimmer, sexier version of yourself. Part

  • of losing weight is eating healthy,

  • exercising regularly, drinking less, and

  • so on. So in a sentence, this year one of

  • my resolutions is to lose weight.

  • Quit smoking. This is a very clear goal

  • that many people have, I think. Quit

  • smoking many people would like to stop a

  • bad habit or to stop a vice, so they

  • decide to, they want to quit smoking in

  • that year. My brother says he's going to

  • quit smoking this year. It's one of his new

  • year's resolutions. My brother doesn't smoke.

  • Read more. The next resolution is to read

  • more.

  • I don't know, I suppose this could be

  • different from person to person, it could

  • mean reading the news more, it could mean

  • reading more books, it could mean

  • studying more, perhaps? But in general

  • just getting new knowledge, more often. So

  • in a sentence, this year one of my

  • resolutions is to read more.

  • Save money. Everybody probably tries to

  • do this as much as possible, it can be

  • difficult, but save money. So, for you know

  • for your travels, for self-improvement,

  • for whatever it is that you'd like to

  • save money for. A common resolution is to

  • save money. So this year, let's see, one of

  • my resolutions is to save money so that

  • I can travel this summer. Spend more time

  • with family the next resolution is to

  • spend more time with family. It can be

  • easy to move away from your family and

  • not talk to them very much,

  • maybe you lose touch over time, but one

  • common resolution is to spend more time

  • with family, so maybe this means calling

  • your family more, meeting your family

  • more, having a family reunion,

  • there are a lot of different ways that

  • you can find time. So in a sentence,

  • this year I'm going to spend more time

  • with my family, it's so important.

  • Study English with EnglishClass101.com. The

  • next resolution is to study English at

  • EnglishClass101.com! Yes, so hopefully

  • you're continuing your English Studies, I

  • suppose that's why you're watching this

  • video, and watching this channel. But a

  • common resolution and is to study

  • something more, so maybe for you studying

  • English or studying another language is

  • a resolution, is a goal for you, for the

  • new year.

  • Give yourself some time to review the

  • material too. So those are a few common

  • new year's resolutions, I hope that you

  • have some new year's resolutions and

  • that you're working towards your new

  • year's resolutions. If you have a

  • resolution you would like to share,

  • please leave it in a comment, and we can

  • compare. Thanks very much for watching

  • this time, and we will see you again soon,

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