How to win 2025 💪

Good morning and welcome back to The English Breakfast. Your weekly, Sunday morning collection of business English tips and tricks to make you look awesome in the office this week.

I hope you had a great Christmas and you’re enjoying a nice break over the festive season. As you know, New Year is just a few days away, so I thought this might be a good moment to reflect on 2024. Let’s dive in and practice some English.

7 pieces of good news from this year

Reading 📖 - Advanced

If you follow the news, you’ve probably heard a lot about the climate and the environment this year, but I bet you missed these 7 pieces of GOOD news.

How many of them had you already heard of? Read the article below to find out.

How to win in 2025

Listening 🎧️ - Intermediate

New Year is the perfect time to make resolutions and set goals for things you’d like to achieve.

Whatever your goal maybe, one thing is for sure. Even with the best intentions, it’s really hard to make resolutions you can stick to (=follow).

That’s where SMART goals can help you. Have you ever heard of them before?

They can be applied to any goal, but watch the video below to find out how they can help you improve your English.

If improving your English is one of your goals for 2025, I still have some availability left for individual courses.

Reply to this email with the word “course” for more details 📧 

Let’s do a quiz

What’s the missing word from the sentence below?

I’m not very keen …. panettone! I much prefer a mince pie 😉 

The correct answer is “on”. This is an example of what’s called a dependent preposition. There are a lot of them in English and having a good knowledge of them will make your speech sound more authentic.

How many can you get right?

Try this quiz to test your skills. Click here 🎲 

What did you think of today’s edition? Reply to this email and let me know 📧 

“😍 Loved it”

“🙂 It was OK”

“😐️ There was nothing for me“

Have a great New Year and I wish you all the best for 2025.

Ciao for now,

Dan

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