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New Year Celebrations

People around the world celebrate New Year in many different ways. Find out
how some of our readers are going to celebrate this year.

To be lucky for a new year, people in Britain will welcome a young, dark-headed
male to be the first guest to enter through the front door and offer gifts such as bread
(to be full), salt (to be wealthy) and coal (to stay warm). Robert Howard, England

On New Year Day, Japanese people will decorate the entire house as well as clean it.
I’m going to prepare pine branches, plum blossoms and bamboo for the upcoming
year. Mishima Yukio, Japan

To welcome the New Year, I’m going to save old dishes to break them on my
friends’ front door. People in my country allow these broken dishes to pile up in
order to show who has the most friends. Jonas Elmer,

Denmark

I’m going to wear new clothes to welcome the New Year
with a fresh start. The new clothes are not the Western

style but a traditional outfit called ao dai. Dao Hoang
Long, Vietnam

A. Read the text and decide in which country the person will do the following

things to welcome the New Year.
1. breaking old dishes on front doors ___________
2. welcome a young man with black hair ___________
3. prepare some kinds of trees ___________

4. wear a piece of traditional clothing ___________

B. Read the text again and decide whether the following sentences are True (T),
False (F) or Not given (NG).

1. People will offer salt to the hosts to wish them wealth. ______
2. Vietnamese people like to wear new clothes on other special occasions.
______
3. People in Denmark get angry when someone breaks old dishes on their

doors. ______
4. Japanese people like to keep their houses tidy on New Year Day. ______
5. Yukio is going to prepare lots of food to welcome the New Year. ______

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