 Creative Writing Activity for the ESL Classroom, Resolutions Celebrating a new year is practically a universal tradition, and all students have goals. Writing down new year's resolutions allows students to practice various usages of the future tense. These include using the future simple to talk about plans, expressing future hopes or wishes with the present simple, and expressing desires for the future with the present simple. Before you conduct this activity, decide what specific language points you want your students to practice, and make a few sets of decorative cards. These can be anything from squares of different colored paper, to more ornate card templates found online. To begin the activity, show your students some new year's resolutions of your own, as examples of what you expect them to write. Have students write three of their own resolutions, and check for mistakes once a student is finished. After correcting any mistakes, let students choose one decorative card to copy their resolutions on. They can keep these cards in notebooks, folders, bags, or anywhere else where they can easily see them and remember their goals. Students are getting certified to teach English abroad and online.