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Welcome, New Year!
Textbook: Part 2, pp. 71–74
GoalDescribe New Year traditions; learn to sum up the year and express wishes.
New words
holiday · bayramfir tree · archawish · tilaksumming up · sarhisob
Explanation
The New Year is celebrated on 1 January. On this day homes are decorated with a fir tree, people greet one another, and children meet Qorbobo (Grandfather Frost) and Qorqiz (the Snow Maiden). The textbook has the poem “Xush kelibsan, Yangi yil!” (Welcome, New Year!) by Abdulla Oripov, a great poet who wrote the words of the National Anthem of Uzbekistan. We do not quote his lines; we read our own text. At the end of the year we sum up what we learned and make wishes for the new year.
Worked examples
“Summing up the year”. At the end of December our family decorates the fir tree. I thought how I had changed this year. I learned to write neatly, read 15 books and made two new friends. But I sometimes wasted time on the phone, and I want to fix that. My wishes for the new year: to be healthy, to read more and to spend more time with my family. After midnight we all congratulated one another.
Greetings: “Yangi yilingiz bilan!” (Happy New Year!), “I wish you health and happiness!”
Class activity
“Wish paper”: each child writes one good wish on paper and hangs it on the class tree.
Practice
1
When is the New Year celebrated?
On 1 January
2
What did the child learn this year?
Neat writing, read 15 books, made two friends.
3
What does he or she want to fix?
Wasting time on the phone
4
What wishes does the child have for the new year?
To be healthy, read more and spend time with family
5
Whom do children meet at the New Year celebration?
Qorbobo and Qorqiz