1. One word for 2016 Success

2. What do you think of making New Year’s resolutions? What are the most common resolutions for people planning to improve themselves?

3. Watch the New Year’s Resolutions song: Do you agree with the first four paragraphs or with the last two? http://iccic-english.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/happy-new-year.html http://iccic-english.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/happy-new-year.html

4. Replace resolutions with something a bit more useful: Three words for 2016

5. Pick any three words that will guide you in your choices for 2016. They should be words that challenge yourself, guide your actions and help you take decisions. e.g. ASK DO SHARE They might prompt you to: Ask more questions or ask if you can help. Do more instead of plan more. Share what you learn.

6. The course three words are: range, accuracy, exposure Other three words could be: embrace, seize, release Think of yours

7. Send your words to PollEv.com/iccic https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/RRA1n0vsDytaPjw

8. Was success one of the words? How many new words can you form from it? What does success mean to you?

9. Watch the video and find out if it matches your definition of success. What examples of success are given in it? https://vimeo.com/134134439 https://vimeo.com/134134439

10. How far do you agree with the narrator? What do you feel you are a success at?

11. HW Monday 18th January Watch Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success on Ted Talks Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

12. Task: Outline the main ideas and say to what extent you agree or disagree. You may use the words on the next slide.

14. Our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises.

15. It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living.

16. A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

17. If there's one dominant emotion in modern society, that is envy.

18. There's a real correlation between a society that tells people that they can do anything, and the existence of low self-esteem.

19. Everybody, all politicians on Left and Right, agree that meritocracy is a great thing, and we should all be trying to make our societies really, really meritocratic.

20. You can't be successful at everything.

21. Let's make sure our ideas of success are truly our own.