New Year's is a national holiday, so schools, banks, post offices, and government buildings are closed.

People celebrate New Year's Day by attending parties and staying awake until midnight on New Year's Eve.

•  New Year's Eve is the night before New Year's. At midnight on New Year's Eve, party goers blow noisemakers, throw confetti, and kiss their partner. Some cities have firework displays.

Confetti and Streamers Confetti and

streamers are popular on New Year's.

They are small pieces of colored paper.

Sparklers Sparklers are

handheld fireworks that shoot sparks as they burn.

People light them on New Year's Eve when it gets dark.

Noisemakers Noisemakers are

special whistles that people blow at New Year's parties.

Both adults and children like noisemakers

Times Square in New York City has a famous New Year's countdown just before midnight. At exactly midnight a large ball covered with lights slides down a pole. 

When it is 12:00 A.M., party goers blow noisemakers and throw confetti.

Couples hug and kiss at midnight.

They wish each other a happy new year.

HappyHappyNew Year!New Year!

Auld Lang Syne Auld lang syne  [ˈɔːl(d) lɑŋˈsəin] comes from the name of

a Scottish song that is traditionally sung at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Etymology: from Scots, literally "old long ago": the good old times.

It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight.

By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions. 

http://www.manythings.org/songs/ckmp3-auld-learn.html

• watch less TV • save more money • go travelling • redecorate the house • buy a tablet • spend less time on

Facebook/Twitter/…• read more books • lose weight

• do something for charity • sell stuff I don’t need on

eBay • eat less chocolate • spend more time with my

kids/family • change my hairstyle • leave work on time • go to the gym more • take better photos

Resolutions Predictions Ambitions

This year I’m going to read more

I predict that most students will pass the exams

I hope to have more free time and less work.

I’m going to learn more vocabulary.

I think that most people will study harder.

I hope to inspire my students to learn English.

This year I’m going to……..

I think that X will happen I hope to……..

• Read an English book. • Listen to the radio in English • Watch a movie in English with

English subtitles • Watch a movie in my language

with English subtitles • Watch a movie in English

without subtitles • Use an English-English

dictionary.http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

• Meet with a conversation exchange partner

• Do Internet search in English

• Write emails in English • Read the lyrics of English

language songs. • Play language learning

computer games • Go through a list of new

vocabulary I have learnt • Sing English language

songs • Record myself speaking

English

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