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9a. Work with a partner. Complete the tips in the blog using can/can’t, could/couldn’t, (not) manage to, (not) succeed in, and (not) be able to in the correct form.
- Remember that you can choose to resist temptation if you want to.
Just because you couldn’t stop yourself yesterday, doesn’t mean you can never do it. - Think about something else. If you succeed in tunring your attention away from the chocolate for a while, you may forget about it altogether.
- Stop for a minute. Perhaps you felt you couldn’t spare the timeto go for a run yesterday? But if you stopped and really thought about it, you’d see it was much more important than many of the things you did manage to do.
- Think ahead. Plan for the future and you will succeed in achieving your goals.
- Never buy things on impulse. Go home and think about it. If you really like it, you can still buy it tomorrow, or next week.
- Spend time with people who are able to resist temptation themselves. Pick up some valuable lessons by observing someone whose patience you admire.