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The document summarizes some of the traditions celebrated during the New Year holiday in Ukraine. Some key traditions discussed include celebrating the New Year on January 1st according to the Gregorian calendar after previously celebrating it in September, decorating a New Year's tree topped with a bright star and sweets, the arrival of Father Frost and Snow Girl who bring presents, family get-togethers involving meals, music, and champagne, listening to the president's New Year speech, fortune telling, and wishing for dreams to come true in the new year. The presentation wishes the reader a happy new year.
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New year lakhtionova_naСветлана Ходова
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The document discusses various New Year traditions around the world. It begins by describing New Year celebrations in England, noting that January 1st was declared New Year's Day in 1752, and traditions include "First Footing" where the first visitor of the new year is believed to bring luck. It also discusses burning bushes to symbolize burning past evils, and children singing songs in the morning. The document then covers the history of celebrating New Year on January 1st in Rome in 153 BC and traditions from ancient Babylon and Greece. It concludes with explaining some New Year symbols like Big Ben chiming at midnight in London.Anna Dziedziak
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Polish Christmas traditions are deeply rooted in religious beliefs and superstitions. Some key traditions include keeping the home spotlessly clean before Christmas Eve, as the weather on Christmas is believed to predict the weather for the coming year. On Christmas Eve, families gather for a feast and exchange wishes using oplatek wafers. Unmarried women predict their future by interpreting signs like the direction a dog barks or the color of straw pulled from under the table. The Christmas tree is an important symbol, decorated with fruits, candies and homemade paper chains to commemorate Jesus and the Garden of Eden.Chinese new year blog
Chinese new year blogClassRM
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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated from the first day of the lunar new year until the 15th day. It is the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Traditions include cleaning houses to sweep away bad luck, decorating with lucky phrases, having large family meals, setting off fireworks at midnight, giving children red envelopes with money, and dragon dances. The festival concludes with the Lantern Festival on the 15th day where people hang lanterns and carry them in the moonlight.New year lakhtionova_na
New year lakhtionova_naСветлана Ходова
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Here are the key differences I found between the documents:
- The first document is about New Year traditions in England specifically, including traditions like "First Footing" and burning bushes. It provides historical context about England changing its New Year date.
- The second document discusses New Year traditions and symbols around the world more broadly, such as eating grapes in Spain at midnight and jumping waves in Brazil. It only briefly mentions Auld Lang Syne in England.
- The third link is to a YouTube video about making New Year's resolutions, rather than directly discussing traditions.
- The fourth link is to a crossword puzzle website rather than a document about traditions.
- The fifth link discusses 25 interesting facts aboutChinese new year blog
Chinese new year blogClassRM
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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar and marks the start of a new year and season of planting. Traditions include cleaning houses to sweep away bad luck, decorating with lucky phrases, having large family meals with foods like dumplings and rice pudding, setting off fireworks at midnight wearing red clothes, and children finding money in red envelopes. The festival concludes with the Lantern Festival marked by hanging lanterns and carrying them in the full moonlight.Holidays
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The document provides information about several holidays and traditions celebrated in various countries, including Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and Halloween. It discusses traditions, symbols, songs, poems, and customs associated with each holiday.Holidays in Great Britain and the USA
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The document discusses various holidays celebrated in Britain and the United States. It provides details on traditions and symbols associated with Easter, Christmas, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and others. It describes what children do on these holidays, such as dressing up, hunting for Easter eggs, and receiving gifts from Santa or the Easter Bunny. It also contains exercises for students to test their knowledge of holiday dates, symbols, and traditions.New year
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The document summarizes several festivals and holidays celebrated around the world, including Saint Valentine's Day (celebrated in February with flowers, candy and cards), Easter (celebrated in March/April and symbolized by eggs and bunnies), Saint Patrick's Day (celebrated on March 17th and honors the patron saint of Ireland), Independence Day in the US (celebrated on July 4th with fireworks, parades and flags to mark America's independence), Halloween (celebrated on October 31st with costumes, sweets and pumpkins), Guy Fawkes Night in England (celebrated on November 5th with bonfires and fireworks), Thanksgiving in the US (celebrated inRecently uploaded (20)
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- 2. ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING, EXITING HOLIDAY IS NEW YEAR We think every person likes winter holidays so much and we like too, it`s so cheerful, wonderful, magic! That`s why we did this presentation.
- 3. THE HISTORY There are various New Year traditions in Ukrain as the country celebrates an official and unofficial New Year. Earlier Ukranins used to celebrate it in September. But in 1699, Czar Peter the Great issued an order for the New Year to be celebrated on January 1st according to the Julian calendar. From 1918, Ukraians celebrated the New Year on 1st January according to the Gregorian calendar and again on 14th January which is 1st January according to the Julian calendar.
- 4. Amongst the most popular New Year symbols is a New Year's Tree called which is topped with a bright star and decorated with various sweets.
- 5. Another popularly celebrated New Year tradition is the arrival of Ded Moroz or Father Frost and his granddaughter Snegurochka the snow girl. They bring in New Year presents for the good children and keep them under the New Year's Tree. Children sing a song to make Father Frost happy.
- 6. New Year verve can be seen by the family get-together, use of fireworks, delicious meals etc. The most important part of the New Year activities is the sumptuous dinner with light music and champagne. The most important meals include: meat green peas pickle mayonnaise onion carrots potatoes
- 7. Ukranians also follow the tradition of listening to the New Year Speech from the President on New Year's Day. There are some more fascinating traditions followed at the time of New Year and the famous one is the tradition of fortune telling.
- 8. Many people especially women and unmarried girls are excited to know about their future indulge in this activity
- 9. In conclusion we should said that when the old year is leaving our homes, every of us are a little upset… Every year contain many fantastic emotions, bright events and amusing moments.
- 10. We wish you happy New Year! Don`t worry, Father frost to carry out your dreams!!!
- 11. From 11 Kate Uspenskaya and Iren Stoyanova School â„–3