Give Yourself a Year to Try 12 New Things and Embrace Change

🎯 聽之前

Oprah's frame of giving yourself a year to try twelve new things: change as a series of small experiments, not a new personality.

• Is the year a promise to succeed, or a promise to try?
• What counts as "new": huge, or merely unfamiliar?
• How do they talk about failing one month?
• Listen for calendar language: a year, a month, twelve.

💬 重點句 6

先讀英文，想一下意思，再點「翻譯」。按 🔊 聽一次，然後跟著唸。

1. Give yourself a year, and spend it as twelve small permissions.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   給自己一年，然後把它花成十二次小小的允許。

   permission 這裡是「允許自己嘗試」。spend it as：把時間用成某種形式。
2. A new thing does not have to be brave. It has to be unfamiliar.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   新的事不必很勇敢。它只要是你不熟的。

   does not have to / has to 對比義務的程度。
3. If September fails, October still belongs to you.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   如果九月失敗了，十月仍然是你的。

   belongs to：屬於。失敗被限制在一個月裡。
4. Try it once in public and once alone. Those are different kinds of new.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   公開試一次，獨自試一次。那是兩種不同的「新」。

   in public / alone 對比。kinds of 後面接複數或不可數皆可，這裡 new 當名詞。
5. Do not renovate your whole life. Change the Tuesday.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   不要翻修整個人。改掉星期二。

   renovate：整修（房子）。Tuesday 代表一個具體的日子。
6. Write the twelve things down so your mood cannot edit the list.
   🔊 唸 翻譯
   把十二件事寫下來，這樣你的心情就不能修改清單。

   so + 結果。edit the list：事後改掉原本的承諾。

📚 單字 10

點卡片翻面。先猜意思再翻。

🗣️ 俚語與成語 6

🧩 句型練習 3

讀完範例，用自己的事造一句。寫在筆記本或手機備忘錄裡，隔天回頭唸一次。

✅ 理解題 4

看完影片再作答。選一個答案會立刻顯示解釋。

1. What is the year a promise of?
   Twelve successesTwelve triesA new personalityA public announcement
   The frame is experiments, and a failed month does not cancel the year.
2. "Out of your comfort zone" means:
   IllegalBeyond what feels familiarPerfectly easyExpensive
   Comfort zone is the familiar range. Outside it is unfamiliar, not necessarily huge.
3. What does "bite off more than you can chew" warn against?
   Starting smallTaking on too muchWriting a listBeing a beginner
   The image is a bite too large to chew.
4. Why write the twelve things down?
   So a mood cannot edit the list laterSo other people can grade youSo you can change them dailySo the year becomes a performance
   The list is a commitment that outlasts a feeling.

💭 用英文想一想

挑一題，用英文寫 3 到 5 句，或對著手機錄一分鐘。不用完美，說出來最重要。

• Name three unfamiliar things that are small enough for one month each.
• Which goal of yours is biting off more than you can chew? Shrink it to a Tuesday.
• Finish: "If this month fails, ___ still belongs to me."