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• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome

Getting to know each other

I am

My class is...

The holidays were

Promise - Jackie Kay

Remember, the time of year

when the future appears

like a blank sheet of paper

a clean calendar, a new chance.

On thick white snow

You vow fresh footprints

then watch them go

with the wind’s hearty gust.

Fill your glass. Here’s tae us. Promises

made to be broken, made to last.

The Year - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,

That’s not been said a thousand times?

The new years come, the old years go,

We know we dream, we dream we know.

We rise up laughing with the light,

We lie down weeping with the night. 

We hug the world until it stings,

We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We live, we love, we woo, we wed,

We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,

And that’s the burden of a year.

Which poem did you like most?

1. Promise
2. The year

READING COMPREHENSION

What is the main idea of the text?

True or false? English people always keep their New Year's resolutions.

1. True
2. False

What traditional song do English people sing on New Year's Eve?

1. Old King Cole
2. Auld Lang's Syne
3. Old Macdonald

A first footer is ......?

1. The first person to go outside on New Year's Day.
2. The first person on the dance floor on New Year's Eve.
3. The first person to enter a house on New Year's Day.

What do English people sometimes toast the new year with?

1. marshmallows
2. champagne
3. bread

What are your New Year's resolutions?