Watch the following video and try the quick gap-fill exercise below it.
Here's a recording in case you can't see the video:
Fill the gaps in the following summary.
The speaker ______ the lives of 5000 people as they attempted to achieve their New Year's resolutions. 10% of the people were successful, and they all followed five simple ______. First, they broke their goal into a ______ of smaller steps. Second, they told friends and family what they were trying to achieve. Third, they regularly ______ themselves about the benefits of obtaining their goal. Fourth, they gave themselves a small ______ each time they obtained one of their small steps. Finally, they ______ ______ their progress, so they knew exactly where they were.
1. Tracking
2. Principles
3. Remind
4. Reward
5. Mapped out
Posted by: Sara | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 11:22
1. tracked
2. principles
3. reminded
4. reward
5. mapped out
Posted by: Hazlin | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 12:08
1. have analyzed
2. principles
3. series
4. remind
5. reward
6. map out
Posted by: chen | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 13:09
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. remind
5. reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: rafael | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 13:38
1 tracked
2 principles
3 series
4 remind
5 reward
6 mapped out
Posted by: Minh | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 13:40
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. reminded
5. reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: Nguyen | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 14:08
1 - Tracks
2 - simple
3 - series
4 - remind
5 - reward
6 - match out
Posted by: Tadeu | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 14:36
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. reminded
5. reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: Tinh | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 14:49
Thank you simon. In my country, Iran, the youtube is filtered. Thanks for putting the audio as well.
Posted by: saman | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 16:36
1- Tracked
2- Principles
3- Series
4- Remind
5- reward
6- mapped out
Posted by: Suraj | Tuesday, January 02, 2018 at 20:36
1.analyse
2.principles
3.series
4.remind
5.reward
6.map out
Posted by: Bruce | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 00:11
tracked
principles
series
remind
reward
map out
Posted by: ha le | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 01:20
1. Tracked
2. Principles
3. Series
4. Reminded
5. Reward
6. Mapped out
Posted by: Lài Trần | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 02:26
1.tracked
2.principles
3.series
4.reminded
5.reward
6.mapped out
Posted by: LC | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 02:32
1. I couldn't hear this word
2. principles
3. series
4. reminded
5. reward
6. mapped out
The trap here is definitely the tense of the verbs. As can be seen from the first few sentences, the tense used is past tense. Therefore, all of the following verbs must be in past tense as well.
Posted by: Nari Le | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 02:47
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. reminded
5. reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: Diana | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 05:58
1.analyse
2. principles
3.series
4.remind
5.reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: Cyril | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 08:03
1.tracking
2.principles
3.series
4.remind
5.award
6.mapped out
Posted by: sammy | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 08:51
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. remind
5. award
6. match out
Posted by: Dongri | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 09:32
1. tried
2. principles
3. series
4. reminding
5. reward
6. marke our
Posted by: Joyce | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 10:13
1. Tracks
2. Principles
3. Series
4. Remind
5. Reward
6. Map out
Posted by: Phivan | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 10:50
1. Tracked
2. Principles
3. Series
4. Remind
5. Reward
6. Mapped out
Posted by: Aftab Ashraf | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 14:21
1. Tracked
2.principles
3.series
4.reminded
5.reward
6.mapped out
Posted by: Sanaz | Wednesday, January 03, 2018 at 23:36
1. Tracted
2.principles
3.series
4.reminded
5.reward
6.mspped out
Posted by: Justine | Thursday, January 04, 2018 at 02:57
1. tracked
2.principles
3. series.
4.reminded
5. reward
6.mapped out
Posted by: Phước | Thursday, January 04, 2018 at 07:13
Tracked
Principles
series
reminded
reword
mapped out
Posted by: Beyza nur | Thursday, January 04, 2018 at 09:54
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. reminded
5. reward
6. mapped out
Posted by: Simon | Thursday, January 04, 2018 at 17:05
1 - tracked
2- principles
3- series
4- reminded
5- reward
6- mapped out
Posted by: JorcyZhao | Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 06:04
1 tracked
2 principles
3 series
4 reminded
5 reward
6 mapped out
Posted by: Maggie | Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 09:00
tracked
principles
series
reminded
reward
mapped out
Posted by: Skylar | Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 06:21
1. tracked
2. Principles
3. Series
4. Remind
5. Reward
6. Mapped out
Posted by: Thanh Duong | Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 00:43
1. tracked
2. principles
3. series
4. remind
5. reward
6. map out
Posted by: Ferdian | Thursday, February 08, 2018 at 03:57
Track, principles, series, reminded, reward, mapped out....the first ans to be honest i didnt hear afterwards i saw some commentator ans afterwards i selected caption of the video afterthat i habe seen Bold-head-mamu said " I track the lives of 5000 people..." lol bold head is so desteous in terms of being pronuncing word.
Posted by: Md Kamran | Thursday, February 08, 2018 at 22:09
tracked
principles
series
remind
mapped out
Posted by: SNEHAL BHAVSAR | Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 03:11
1. Tracked
2. Principles
3. Series
4. Remind
5. Mapped out
P/s : Simon, you should find a way to turn off the subtitle, even though I didn't use it.
Posted by: Kaitlyn Nguyen | Monday, February 19, 2018 at 07:04
Tracked
Principles
Series
Reminded
Reward
Mapped out
Posted by: Seol | Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 14:03
Tracked
Principles
Series
Remind
Reward
Mapped out
Posted by: Naewon cho | Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 22:42
1. Tracks
2. principles
3. searies
4. remind
5. reward
6. mapped
7. out
Posted by: Emma_Hien | Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 14:41
I keep hearing:
I tried the lives of 5 people (feeling sad)
principles
series
reminded
reward
mapped
out
Posted by: Tonia | Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 10:22