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It's 2024! It's a new year! The day of the week today is Friday. The date is January  12, 2024.

At the start (beginning)  of a new year many people make resolutions. Resolutions are promises people make to themselves about what they will do and what they won't do in the new year.  Resolutions are goals. Sometimes we make resolutions to do some things that we have procrastinated  (put off/ delayed doing)  about in the past.

New Year's resolutions are a perfect opportunity to practice talking about the future. There are two ways to talk about the future in English. The easiest way to talk about the future is to put  "will " before the verb.

Example: I will buy a new phone tomorrow. Talking about the future using "will" is a piece of cake (as easy as eating a piece of cake) because "will" doesn't change when the subject changes: I/you/we/they/he/she/it will  buy a new phone.

To talk about things we will not do, we add a not after the "will".  "I will not eat after 8:00 in the evening."  The contraction for "will  not" is "won't". "I won't eat after 8:00 in the evening."

How about you, dear listener? Do you have a New Year's resolution about something you will or won't do in 2024?

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