The 30-Day Challenge
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📅 Class 10G — The 30-Day Challenge
NOTE FROM MS GREEN: In March, our whole class is going to do one 30-day challenge together. You choose it! There are three rules. 1 Everyone must be able to do it, whatever their body, family or timetable. 2 It must be free. 3 It must be easy to measure, so we can track it on the class chart. We’ll vote on Friday. Bring ideas, not just complaints!
IDEAS SO FAR: 📵 No phones after 9 p.m. · 📖 Read for 20 minutes every day · 🗣️ Learn five new English words a day · 🏃 Run 5 km every morning · 💛 Do one kind thing for someone every day · 🥗 Buy a healthy lunch from the café every day · 💧 Drink no fizzy drinks for 30 days
Tom: Ideas? We vote Friday.
Max: Run 5 km every morning! We’re going to be so fit.
Amy: Max, not everyone can run 5 km. Rule 1.
Max: … Fine.
Ben: How about the healthy lunch?
Tom: It costs money, Ben. Rule 2.
Lily: I like “no phones after 9 p.m.” Everyone would sleep better.
Rory: I’d die.
Rosa: The kind thing is lovely, but how do we measure kindness?
Tom: Good question. Let’s talk about it on Friday.
Vocabulary
- habit — something you do regularly, often without thinking
- goal — something you want to achieve
- measure — find out the size or amount of something
- track — record your progress over time
- realistic — possible to do
- motivated — wanting to do something and working hard at it
- vote — choose formally, often by raising hands
- stick to — continue doing something you planned
Sample questions (12 questions)
- What are Ms Green’s three rules?
- It must be fun, short and healthy.
- Everyone can do it, it’s free, and it’s easy to measure.
- It must be about sport, food and sleep.
- Why does Amy reject Max’s idea?
- It costs money.
- Not everyone can run 5 km, so it breaks rule 1.
- It is too easy.
- What does Rory mean by “I’d die”?
- He would find it very hard to stop using his phone at night.
- He is ill.
- He hates reading.
Answers and hints from Migo appear when you do it online.