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hi everyone I'm Gina I'm sure that
everyone watching this video know it's
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about New Year's Day and celebrates it
but do you know how we celebrate in
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Great Britain in this lesson you're
going to learn about the British New
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Year which we celebrate on the 1st of
January
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do you know how many people gather in
London to watch the New Year's fireworks
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will show you the answer at the end of
this video
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New Year's Eve is a big party night in
Britain people all over the country
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celebrate with parties and fireworks to
ring in the New Year in Scotland
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especially it is a big event known as
hog money when Big Ben chimes midnight
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to signal the start of the new year we
join hands and sing the traditional song
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auld lang syne a song about friends and
forgiveness a new year is seen as a new
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beginning where we can say goodbye to
the year that has passed and welcomed
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the year that is coming it is
traditional to choose a New Year's
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resolution and this is a goal or a
change that we want to make to ourselves
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or our lives popular New Year's
resolutions are to lose the extra pounds
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put on over Christmas or to quit smoking
in Britain and especially Scotland there
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is an old superstition and custom that
the first person to enter a house in the
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new year will bring luck with them if
the first footer as they are called has
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dark hair it is considered extremely
lucky
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New Year's Eve is a party night it means
that New Year's Day is a very slow-paced
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day public transport and store hours are
limited and most people choose to stay
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home relax and nurse their headaches and
now I'll give you the answer to the
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earlier quiz do you know how many people
gather in London to watch the New Year
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fireworks
about 250,000 people gather every year
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along the River Thames to watch the
fireworks the fireworks are set off from
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boats along the river and also around
the London Eye how is this lesson did
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you learn something interesting do you
remember the name of the song we sing to
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welcome the new year leave us a comment
at English class 101.com
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and we'll see you in the next lesson bye
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you
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