1. New Year’s Day is a holiday celebrated all over the world on January 1st, the first day of the New Year.
2. Many people celebrate New Year’s Day in the company of their family members and friends.
3. It is one of the oldest holidays celebrated in the world.
4. In Russia and other former Soviet republics this holiday is celebrated with feasts, champagne, traditional food and wishes.
5. We decorate New Year Fir Trees and have New Year parties.
6. Our Grandfather Frost wears a long blue or red fur coat, a matching hat and felt knee boots (валенки — valenki) and carries gifts in a large sack on his back.
7. Grandfather Frost is helped by his "granddaughter", Snegurochka (the Snow Maiden).
8. Our people believe that the way we spend New Year’s Eve is the same way we’ll spend the rest of the year.
9. When the clock starts striking midnight, people toast with champagne and make wishes.
10. Our Grandfather Frost brings gifts on New Year’s Eve instead of Christmas Eve.
"The Three Little Pigs" and " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", with their still familiar songs by Frank Cherchill, immediately spring to mind. After the Second World War Disney turned his attention to real-life nature studies and non-cartoon films with living actors. After a rather unsuccessful feature cartoon "The Sleeping Beauty", he made a triumphant come-back with the very successful "Mary Poppins".
In 1955 he branched out into a different enterprise —"Disney-land", a huge amusement park in southern California.
Disneyland is situated 27 miles south of Los Angeles, at Ana-heim. Of all the show-places none is as famous as Disneyland. This superb kingdom of fantasy linked to technology was created by Walt Disney.
The park is divided into six themes and there is so much to see and do in each that no one would attempt to see all of them in one visit. For extended visits, there are hotels nearby.
Walt Disney died in California at the age of 65. His works have given so much pleasure for many years to many people, young and old, in many countries.