English Expressions for the Beginning of a New Year
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in this lesson i’m going to talk about
expressions
for the new year that means i’m going to
focus
on goals and resolutions and then we’re
going to talk about
making plans so that means making plans
to achieve your goals and we’re also
going to talk about
goal deadlines so by when
will you achieve your goal the grammar
points for this lesson i’m going to
focus on
the grammar points i’m going to focus on
for this lesson are
will and going to for making your plans
and for your goal deadlines i’m going to
focus on
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uh study topic study topics rather uh
first we are going to look at basic
expressions for the new year
so resolutions and goal expressions you
can send me your resolution
live in the chat or send it in a comment
later
second we’re going to practice your
plans talking about your plans what are
you going
to do in 2021 we’re going to focus on
using
going to and will lastly we are going to
talk about your deadlines when are you
going to
finish your goal when are you going to
achieve your goal we’re going to use
by and until to practice these okay
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basic expressions let’s start with basic
expressions
happy new year happy new year many
people are writing happy new year in the
chat
perfect so happy new year you can use
this until
about the middle of january i guess
usually the first time you see someone
you can use happy new year
and then like after mid-january it
sounds a little weird
you don’t have to say it you might also
see
this expression here’s to a good
year this is here is here is
here’s to a good year is like it means i
hope it’s a good year i hope it’s a good
year
here’s two is a common way to say like
let’s hope together here’s to
something so you might hear here’s to
uh other like uh celebration
you might hear this expression used it
means like let’s hope together
for something okay all right so let’s
get to the important stuff here
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and ask other people these questions
okay so first what’s your new year’s
resolution what’s your new year’s
resolution
resolution this means goal so your new
year’s
resolution means your goal for the year
it’s very common to choose a goal for
the year
in january resolution
is the word we use for this type of goal
a new year goal okay so let’s look at
some examples
with this pattern you can send me your
resolution in the chat if you’re joining
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okay so my resolution is to
infinitive verb phrase so here
when i say infinitive verb phrase i mean
a phrase a goal phrase that begins
with an infinitive verb so infinitive
verb means the base
form of the verb like the dictionary
form yeah
let’s look at some examples here my
resolution
it’s hard to see my resolution is to
start a business
my resolution is to start a business
start
is the infinitive verb okay all right
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okay my resolution is to start a
business
okay so that’s one example of a very
common
new year’s resolution yeah another one
my resolution is to save
ten thousand dollars so maybe you have a
money saving goal
yeah okay or my resolution
is to stop eating junk like to stop
eating junk food okay so
make sure you use this infinitive here
to stop
to save to start and so on okay
uh many people are writing about
language learning resolution so
conwell says my new year my new year
resolution make sure
uh my new year’s apostrophe s yeah
my new year’s resolution is to learn
french is to
learn english with alicia don’t forget
this too yeah
to verb my new year’s resolution
is to make a lot of money okay um my
resolution is to earn
some people let’s see elban wrote much
money we can’t use much
uh we don’t use much in positive
sentences earn
a lot of money uh okay wow there are
many
comments coming in my resolution is to
start a new job guillerme instead of
join a new job
start a new job on facebook um
poovey my solution is my solution oh is
to start to practice
english for my test make sure not
solution
resolution there’s an re at the
beginning
resolution resolution okay all right
other ones there are many ones there are
many comments on facebook i’m sorry i
missed a few
kian said my resolution is to improve my
english skill more good and remember
specific goals are good goals right make
it specific
okay um all right let’s look at the next
pattern though
this one is a is more general so
to answer this question you can use the
word goal
it doesn’t have to be resolution i’ll
talk about the difference
here resolution goal what’s the
difference so resolution
as i said sounds official yeah so we use
resolution at the beginning of the year
a new year’s resolution goal
can be used at any time of the year for
something you want to achieve
yeah so you can use this at the
beginning of the year also that’s fine
so my goal for the year
is to infinitive verb phrase so you can
use this pattern
also some examples my goal for the year
is to buy a house or my goal for the
year
is to open a store or
my goal for the year is to run a
marathon
so again you can use my goal for the
year
or my resolution is something
so these are basic expressions we can
use to talk about our resolutions
and goals you can use this pattern any
time
of year except well just change year
to like month or week yeah my goal for
the week
my goal for the month my goal for the
summer you can change
year to a different time period some
more examples are coming in
ruby says my new year’s resolution is to
improve my
english good my new years don’t forget
this little apostrophe s
new year’s resolution um
saeed says my resolution is to start
building
confidence good okay that’s a good one
nice um
let’s see my goal for the year is to win
a trophy says babna
great great okay excellent raquel says
my goal for 2020 is to get
my visa to canada don’t forget your verb
is to get
my visa to canada fantastic okay you
guys
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and go to part two now how to express
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okay so expressions uh for the beginning
of the year we just talked about
basic expressions uh happy new year
resolutions now we’re going to talk
about your plan
so we’re going to focus on the grammar
points
will and going to i’m not going to talk
in detail about the two grammar points i
just want to refresh
your mind and give you some examples
to think about so let’s take a look
going to and will the question the key
question for part two here
is what are you going to do in 2021
what are you going to do in 2021 so that
means
like what steps are you going to
take to achieve your goal yeah so the
small parts
yeah like every day or every week or
every month
we can use going to and will
to express these yeah so let’s look at
some examples
and then after let’s talk about the
differences
between these okay first going to
so you might say i’m going to write
a book i’m going to write a book or
i’m going to study three times a week
or i’m not going to drink alcohol
so many different types of gold right
negative this one is a negative
i’m not going to drink alcohol so
these express a plan we had before the
conversation this is when we use going
to we’re sure that’s this that’s the
feeling of going to
i’ve decided this is my plan i’m 100
sure okay let’s compare this to
will will so for example
i think i’ll start a new
hobby i think i’ll start a new hobby
here’s will
i think i will i’ve reduced it i’ll
is i will i will i think i’ll start a
new hobby
or i’ll probably go to
a language school i’ll probably go to a
language school
or i don’t
think i’ll watch a lot of tv
i don’t think i’ll watch a lot of tv
this is the negative
i do not think i will i do not think i
will
or maybe i probably won’t watch a lot of
tv
so will is used to express
things that we’re not 100
sure about we have not decided yet we
decided
in the moment in the conversation yeah
so should i use will should i use going
to this is a very common question
remember will not 100
sure plan decided in the conversation
so for example this one i think i’ll
start a new hobby
this i think is very common with will
it’s like saying i’m not sure but maybe
i think i’ll start a new hobby
this is also very common i’ll probably
i’ll probably also one point i notice
many learners
don’t say this sound clearly
many of my former students said i
probably
i probably don’t say i probably please
say
i’ll probably i’ll probably
i’ll probably do something okay
um good again in the negative you can
use
i don’t think i’ll watch a lot of tv
or i probably won’t to use
won’t in that pattern then in comparison
going to
we use going to for 100
sure plans so we’ve decided we
thought about it before the conversation
we chose
the goal we made the resolution yeah 100
sure plans decided before the
conversation
so i’m going to write a book that sounds
very confident
yeah or i’m going to study three times a
week
okay so very sure very confident plans
all right i’m going to check some of
your examples now
uh madrista on youtube says i’m going to
give up drinking beer
nice example sentence okay um
let’s see babna says i think i’ll start
a new restaurant that’s a good example
sentence too
um some other ones uh it’s very bright
here
um some others can you give the form of
will and going to i’m not sure what that
question means can
you phrase it a different way reyna says
i’m going to work out every day
very nice example okay orlando says i’m
going to stop
smoking cigarettes i’m going to stop uh
stop and start this is i don’t have time
to explain this in
this point in detail but for for like
goals and resolutions
stop and start often are followed by
a a word that has an ing at the end
start
working or stop smoking or stop drinking
stop followed by the noun form of that
word so stop
smoking cigarettes okay
okay um manuel says i’m going to study
uh a master’s degree so i’m going to
maybe study
for a master’s degree okay uttam says
i’m going to make a new
film very very nice okay um
other examples there are many lots of
people are talking about
language learning fantastic okay sounds
good to me
so will and going to these you can use
to express
uh the smaller steps in your plan
also we’re going to review this topic
next week in more detail so
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some more okay fantastic so this is part
two
for today uh i don’t see other questions
but i do see many
good example sentences which is super
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then we’ll go to part three
focusing on by and until to
talk about your deadlines okay so if you
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practiced
uh let’s see in part one resolutions and
goals
in part two we covered going to and will
and now we’re going to talk about our
deadlines
how to express uh when we’re going to
finish our goal or when we when we plan
to finish our goal so we’re going to
review
using buy and until in part three here
so
let’s take a look all right
so when are you going to reach your goal
when are you going to reach your goal so
what’s the plan what’s your schedule
really so many of you for example write
and say you know i’m going to improve my
english or i’m going to
uh maybe start a new business or
whatever
but you have to also give yourself a
timeline
right you have to take steps inside the
timeline
to do this so how do we express that
we can use by with a point
in time to do that this expresses a
deadline let’s look at one example
i’m going to write a chapter
in my book by the end of
january i’m going to write a chapter
in my book by the end of january chapter
means one
part of the book one part of the book so
by the end of january here’s my buy
expression
buy plus my point in time the end of
january
is my point in time so this means
uh to imagine on a timeline i
start my book now or i start my chapter
in my book now and i work work work work
work work work
and sometime in the period
before the end of january
i finish it the end of january so
january
31st is my deadline that’s the last
possible day but maybe i’ll finish it
before
i want to express some action that will
finish
between today and the end of january
i want to express the deadline for it i
use
buy to do that okay i’m going to write a
chapter in my book
by the end of january
another example i’m going to run
five kilometers without stopping
by march first i’m going to run five
kilometers
without stopping by march 1st
march 1st here’s my point in time yeah
by march 1st
so that means i’m going to practice
running i’m going to do training
sessions i’m going to go to the gym
uh whatever so i’m expressing
march 1st is my deadline so
this means maybe i will reach this goal
maybe i’ll reach this goal
before march 1st that’s okay that’s
correct in this sentence
i’m expressing the deadline here with
buy
i’m going to run five kilometers without
stopping
by march first okay good some of you are
writing your example sentences fantastic
i’m going to apply for my study visa by
january 1st
january 1st it’s already it’s already
gone
we’re what january 6th or 7th depending
on your time zone now
next january okay all right
uh chosen win on facebook says i’m going
to study
level one korean class by the end of
february okay
maybe i’m going to take level one korean
class
all right nice then let’s continue one
more
example i’m going to finish my job
applications
by next week i’m going to finish my job
applications
by next week here’s my time my point in
time next week
i’m going to finish my job application
so you’ll notice
these are all just basic going to
statements right i’m going to do
something
so your your plan your step plus
by and a point in time this expresses uh
your steps
okay uh some other ones madrid
madridista says i’m going to build my
house by march
first nice okay uh other ones i’m
gertrude it says i’m going to travel to
canada by july 23rd okay that’s very
specific all right
nice nice uh other ones
um ross says i’m going to kill it by the
end of this week do you mean like kill
it like
do a good job or like some you have to
do something else i don’t know
okay uh someone’s him out says i’m going
to eat pizza
next week or maybe by the end of next
week okay is that your goal for the year
no judgment all right okay let’s go to
until then until so what’s the deal
until
in this uh in this lesson i’m going to
cover i’m going to talk about
using have with until
so we use until in sort of a similar way
as by we use until plus a point in time
you see i have have here have until
point in time so let’s look at an
example what do i mean here for example
i have until april
to write my thesis i have
until april to write my thesis
so this means that there’s some
deadline outside me so my school’s
deadline in this case or my professor’s
deadline my teacher’s deadline
and i want to express the total
amount of time i have
i have until april
to write my thesis so
yes this means april is my deadline i
cannot say
i uh i have by april totally incorrect
totally incorrect you can say i’m going
to write
my thesis by april that is 100
correct that is totally true this
expression i have until april
just it shares the total time
the time period you have available i
have until april
another example i have until
summer to choose my college i have until
summer to choose my college so again
you are expressing the total time you
have
so that means from now until summer
that’s it marks the end point of
something
one more i have until tomorrow to study
for my test i have until tomorrow to
study for my test
so again we’re expressing a time period
inside which we can do something
i have until tomorrow to do something
all right
uh i have until may to apply for my
study visa nice example
okay i have until 2020
to spend time with me um
2020 has finished so that doesn’t make
sense we have to use
a future point in time here i have
until uh maybe next week to spend
time alone for example
all right uh oh shang on facebook’s
i was waiting for my friend until
5 pm i was waiting for my friend until
5 pm okay chosen win says i have until
july to study
20 lessons on youtube very nice very
nice
asd says i have until june to drink my
whiskey oh
okay very specific and interesting goal
okay uh jantani says i have until summer
to drop my winter shoes what do you mean
drop are you going to sell something we
use
dropped that’s like a cool like stylish
way to say
release or launch a new product is to
drop something
i’m gonna drop some new shoes okay all
right very nice example sentences nice
ones
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lesson boards here we go boom so
today we practiced uh expressions basic
expressions for the new year
resolutions and goal expressions we
talked about using
going to and will and we also talked
about using
by and until to express our
deadlines okay so this is today’s topic
but next week some of you are asking as
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about your 2021
goals in detail so that means scheduling
and the steps you’re going to take
so uh like today’s points about going to
and will we are going to review that
and we’re going to talk about uh those
small steps
to achieve your goals so many of you
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to improve your language skills so we’ll
cover
some expressions you can use to describe
that
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