1. How my family and I see The New Year in: I like the New Year's Day, it is my favourite holiday. The 1st of January is a winter holiday and it is the first day of the New Year. The 1st of January is in the middle of winter. The weather is usually fine and there is a lot of snow everywhere. As the 1st of January is a holiday I don't go to school and my parents don't go to work.
We usually have a very interesting New Year's party at school. We have it on the 28th or 29th of December.
Our family prepares for the New Year's holiday beforehand. My father buys and brings home a beautiful New Year's tree at the end of December. Our family has a tradition to buy it. We don't like artificial synthetic trees. I like to decorate the New Year's tree with toys, little coloured lights, sweets and a beautiful star on the top.
My mother and grandmother prepare our holiday supper and make a nice cake. I help them to lay the table.
All the members of our family clean the flat before the holiday and then each of us try to get dressed well. We like to see the New Year in at home with our relatives. They come to see us by 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening.
At 12 o'clock we sit at the festive table and we are glad to see the New Year in. There are a lot of delicious things on the table and we begin to celebrate the holiday. We say, to each other, "Best wishes for the New Year!" We begin to eat, to joke, to sing songs, to dance to music, to listen to the president's festive speech on TV. Then we watch the holiday salute and sometimes we go to the central square where there are a lot of people welcoming the New Year in!
I hope that the next year will be better than the last one.
The New Year's Day is always connected with our new hopes and dreams.
It is a pleasant moment to get presents on the New Year's Eve.
I usually get many nice useful things from my parents and relatives.
My parents put their presents under the New Year's tree.
We don't go to bed till morning, we continue to watch TV, dance, eat tasty things and make jokes.
I enjoy this holiday very much.
England is the largest and the richest country of Great Britain. The capital of England is London but there are other large industrial cities, such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and other famous and interesting cities such as York, Chester, Oxford and Cambridge. Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric places in the world. This ancient circle of stones stands in Southwest England. It measures 80 metres across and made with massive blocks of stone up to four metres high. Why it was built is a mystery.
Not far from Stonehenge stands Salisbury Cathedral. It is a splendid example of an English Gothic Cathedral; inside there is one of four copies of Magna Charta and the oldest clock in England. Chester is very important town in the north-west of England. In the past it used to be a Roman fort; its name comes from the Latin word castra, meaning "fortified camp". In Chester there is a famous museum which contains over 5000 ancient and modern toys.
Oxford is the home of the oldest university of England. The most famous college is Christ Church. It has a great hall which was built during the reign of Henry VIII and its chapel has become the Cathedral of Oxford. Cambridge is the home of Britain's second oldest university. York was the capital of Northern England. It is one of the best preserved medieval cities of Europe. It was built by Romans, conquered by Anglo-Saxons and ruled by the Vikings. Birmingham is often called the "City of 1,500 trades" because of the great variety of its industries.
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