2024-01-12
31 分钟Every January, as the clock strikes midnight and the New Year unfolds, millions of people around the globe start a familiar ritual: they start their New Year’s Resolution. A resolution is a firm decision or commitment to oneself to achieve some sort of goal. Usually one is made with hope for self-improvement. In today’s lesson, we’ll talk about a few different studies and surveys about the top New Year’s resolutions in the United States! My hope is to uncover cultural insights - not only about our aspirations and priorities for 2024, but how we can be more successful at achieving our goals. Because this is an English lesson, we’ll cover more than just culture. I’ll explain new vocabulary and phrases as we progress through this lesson, specifically words related to statistics in English. Premium Content: Season 4 (Episodes 150 - 200) = Includes quiz, transcript with definitions and mp3. All Premium Content for Seasons 1, 2 and 3 (Episodes 001 - 150) Mentioned in the Audio "Stutz" (the documentary) CDC Study + Analysis by Lancet English Resources How to Track Your Progress: Downloadable Log to Monitor Your Language Progress Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back.
This is episode number 157.2.
New Year's resolution statistics.
Hi everybody.
My name is Shawna and this is the american English podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it.
Every January, as the clock strikes midnight and the new year unfolds, millions of people around the globe start a familiar ritual.
They start their New Year's resolution.
A resolution is a firm decision or commitment to oneself to achieve some sort of goal.
Usually, one is made with the hope of self improvement.
In today's lesson, we'll talk about a few different studies and surveys about top New Year's resolutions in the United States.
My hope is to uncover cultural insights not only about our aspirations and priorities for 2024, but how we can be more successful at achieving our goals.
Because this is an english lesson, we'll cover more than just culture.
I'll explain new vocabulary in phrases as we progress through this audio, so listen carefully.
You're going to hear a lot of vocabulary related to statistics.
You'll learn how to compare and contrast data.
Here's how this lesson will be structured.
First, we'll start with a mini vocabulary lesson.