2. What does NYE stand for?
How do Americans celebrate New Years??
Where do we go? What do we do? What do
we wear? What do we eat?
NYE 2012!!
3. Today’s New Vocabulary
It is a tradition for people to make
resolutions at the beginning of a new year.
• Habit– when you do something so many
times, you feel weird if you don’t do it.
(привычка)
• Improve– to make something better.
(улучшать)
• Fireworks- gunpowder that you light on fire to
explode in the sky. (фейерверк)
• Reflect- Think about what has happened.
you feel weird if you don’t do it. (привычка)
• Improve– to do or make something better.
4. We go to parties with our friends
(sometimes with our families).
7. We make resolutions(разрешение)
• ние)
Examples: I will quit smoking this year; I will
read 15 books this year; I will exercise more
this year; I will learn Russian this year.
Now you come up with a resolution for 2013!
I will ______________ this year.
8. We watch the “ball drop” in Times
Square at midnight
We throw confetti
We count down to midnight
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
13. We listen to “Auld Lang
Syne” after midnight
• Old Lang Syne is a very old Scottish
poem written by a famous Scottish poet,
Robert Burns
• It means “old long since” or
“long, long ago”
16. No more champagneAnd the __________ are
throughHere we are, me and _______Feeling lost
and feeling blueIt's the end of the _______And the
morning seems so greySo unlike yesterdayNow's
the _____ for us to say...Happy new _____Happy
new yearMay we all have a vision now and thenOf
a world where every neighbour is a friendHappy
____ yearHappy new yearMay we all have
our_______, our will to tryIf we don't we might as
well lay down and dieYou and I
• You• Year• Fireworks• New• Hopes
“Happy New Year”, ABBA
19. Comprehension
Questions:
Who wrote the traditional New Years song,
Auld Lang Syne?
What is an example of a New Years
resolution?
Do Americans eat a large dinner on New
Years Eve?
Name 3 American NYE traditions.
