New Years Wish

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k
• Leerjaar 3

How do you celebrate the New Year?

New Year's Eve

Preperation

Vocabulary to get into the text

to meet with other people and spend time with them.

1. to give up
2. to get together
3. to link arms
4. a tradition

an organised show where people watch fireworks outside

1. a firework display
2. a tradition
3. to get together
4. the eve

to put your arm around the arm of the person next to you

1. to stick to something
2. get together
3. tradition
4. to link arms

something people usually do at a special time, and have done for many years

1. coal
2. get together
3. the eve
4. tradition

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Lees alinea 1

a special song, sung on New Year's Eve just after midnight

1. Hogmany
2. first-footing
3. Auld Lang Syne

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Lees alinea 2+3

the name of New Year's celebrations in Scotland

1. January sales
2. Hogmany
3. Auld Lang Syne

the Scottish tradition of the first visitor of the year bringing good luck

1. First footing
2. New years resolution
3. New Year's day swim

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Lees alinea 4+5

going in cold water on the first day of the year

1. first footing
2. New Year's day swim
3. Hogmany

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Lees alinea 5

shopping for clothes and other things at low prices

1. Auld Lang Syne
2. Hogmany
3. New Year's resolutions
4. January sales

plans to do good things in the new year

1. Auld Lang Syne
2. Hogmany
3. New Year's resolutions
4. January sales

How do you celebrate the New Year?

What is your
New Year's resolution?