My favourite day – Chinese New Year

What’s the word?
clothes-հագուստ
window-պատուհան
orange-նարնջագույն
house-տուն
envelope-ծրար
lantern-լապտեր
money-փող
dad-հայրիկ
midnight-կեսգիշեր

Fill it in!
Watch the story. Write the missing words in the sentences.
a. The Chinese New Year festival lasts for 15 days.
b. Every door and window in the house is opened.
c. We carry lantern in a parade at night.
e. People wear bright, red clothes to bring a happy future.
f. We take oranges and tangerines if we visit someone’s home.
g. Children and relatives are given little red envelopes with ‘lucky money’ inside.

4.Do you celebrate the New Year like this in your country? What’s your
favourite day? What are the traditions? Draw and write about it!

Happy New Year 2020 and Merry Christmas to all the people in the world!
Have you noticed the little word order change in the first sentence? That’s not a mistake. Armenians celebrate New Year on the 1st of January, then Christmas on 6th of January.The preparation for the New Year celebration usually starts at mid-November in Armenia. Families get together to discuss what they are going to cook for the wealthy New Year celebration table. Everything is discussed in micro details. The table should be filled with all kinds of delicious food to please the guests of any taste.Anyway, there are some “must have” dishes that embellish the laid table. In the center of attention is a huge leg of pork, then comes Armenian dolma, pasuts dolma (the vegetarian version of beef dolma, made of all sorts of seeds and grains), turkey, chicken, fish, pancake rolled with spicy meat called blinchik, all kinds of salads, kufta and ishli kufta, a few hundred liters of natural juices and mineral waters, plus the dignity of all Armenian men cognac, vodka, wine, champagne and so on and so forth. The New Year starts at midnight of the 31st of December. Members of the families. Members of the families congratulate each other and then starts another Armenian tradition.After celebrating and wishing happy New Year to each other Armenians start to visit their neighbors, relatives and friends. Yes! Starting from midnight. Armenians are the first nation to adopt Christianity as state religion in 301 AD. And starting from that period they celebrate Christmas on the 6th of January.People bring Christmas fire from churches to their homes, believing it will bless their families and bring success. To celebrate Christmas woman usually cook rice with raisins, fish, ghapama (traditional Armenian dish made of pumpkin) and gata with a coin in it. People say that the one who finds the coin in his piece of gata is going to be the luckiest during the year.