Could you give up booze for a month? 6 Minute English https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/7f0b45ab-b6d9-4ef7-ba80-a7197c905320 Improve your English vocabulary and listening in just six minutes! Do you enjoy a glass of wine, gin or having a beer with friends? Would you be able to give it up for a whole month? That's what Dry January is all about - a traditional campaign to encourage people to resist the temptation of having booze and enjoy some health benefits from it. Sam and Rob discuss the challenge of having no alcohol at all and teach you related English vocabulary. This week's question: According to historians, which people were thought to be the first group to make New Year's resolutions? Was it theโ€ฆ a) Romans b) Native Americans c) Babylonians Watch the video to find out the answer. ๐•๐จ๐œ๐š๐›๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง a promise to yourself to stop or start doing something ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž influence a group of similar people have on you to behave like them ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ an attitude or idea that's been done in a certain way for a long time and is difficult to change ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ž goods we buy and sell ๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ sick, tired and sometimes anxious feeling you get after drinking too much alcohol ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  spreading through something and influencing every part of it To download the audio and a transcript, go to our website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-200116 ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ” ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฌ: Hacking help for US elections https://youtu.be/Pzq2slM4Wu4 Fake or real: what's the best tree to have at Christmas? https://youtu.be/NFZH67BgO5c Why does seeing someone yawn make us yawn? https://youtu.be/-aLUbUMVYAc The decline of the apostrophe https://youtu.be/bq9U_3exOLo Women in politics https://youtu.be/pfJ15WGdoWo #LearnEnglish #6MinuteEnglish #BBCLearningEnglish Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:54:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru Could you give up booze for a month? 6 Minute English https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/7f0b45ab-b6d9-4ef7-ba80-a7197c905320 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.