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Happy New Year!

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For the last day of the year we prepared different songs, choose your favorite and let's have a great New year!

  1. Do you think it's a good song for the New year? Do you know the lyrics?
  2. Check out the lyrics and decide if it's a happy song or sad?
Abba - Happy New Year
No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It's the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now's the time for us to say

[Chorus]
Happy New Year, Happy New Year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy New Year, Happy New Year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't, we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Vocabulary (Abba - Happy New Year)
to be through - to finish doing something, to be finished
закончиться
to feel lost and blue - you may feel disconnected from everything around you.
to feel blue - the experience of sadness or melancholy.
чувствовать себя потерянным и грустным
unlike - different from; not similar to.
в отличие от
a will to do something - the mental power used to control and direct your thoughts and actions, or a determination to do something, despite any difficulties or opposition
желание что-то сделать (сила воли)
Abba - Happy New Year
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This song talks about having a .... to move forward.
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The song expresses that it's natural to ... and sad as the year changes.
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....most cheerful New Year songs, Abba's song mix hope and melancholy.
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The singer wonders if we'll still feel hopeful or if we'll .... in a world that is uncertain.
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  1. Do you know this song?
  2. Now that you know the lyrics, try to write your own Chorus with your own wish
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
I don't want a lot for Christmas
There is just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree

I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you, yeah

I don't need to hang my stocking
There upon the fireplace
Santa Claus won't make me happy
With a toy on Christmas Day
Vocabulary (All I Want for Christmas is You)
(wish) come true - actually happen or become the case.
желание сбудется
upon - more formal term for on, especially in abstract senses.
на
Christmas stocking - a long sock or similar receptacle hung up by children on Christmas Eve for Father Christmas to fill with presents.
Рождественский чулок
fireplace - a place for a domestic fire, especially a grate or hearth at the base of a chimney.
камин
All I Want for Christmas is You
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"I just want you for my own, more than you could ever know. Make my wish...."
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I don't need to .... my stockings there ....the fireplace.
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Santa Claus won't make me happy with a ... on Christmas day
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  1. Do you agree with this song?
  2. What would you like to have from the Christmas list in the song?
Santa baby - Eartha Kitt
Santa baby, just slip a Sable under the tree for me
Been an awful good girl
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue
I'll wait up for you, dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fella's that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you check off my Christmas list
Santa baby, I want a yacht and really that's not a lot
Been an angel all year
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Vocabulary (Santa Baby)
to slip something - to include especially without warning or in a way that is not obvious.
подсунуть
awful good or nice = very nice/ a great amount of
ужасно хороший
to hurry - move or act with great haste.
торопиться
chimney - a vertical channel or pipe which conducts smoke and combustion gases up from a fire or furnace and typically through the roof of a building.
труба
fella - non-standard spelling of fellow, (fellow informal - a man or boy.)
парень
yacht - a medium-sized sailing boat equipped for cruising or racing.
яхта
Santa baby
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Santa baby, just ..... a Sable under the tree.
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Santa baby, so ...down the ...tonight
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Santa baby, a 54 .... too, light blue...
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Santa baby, I want a .... and really that's not a lot
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Think of all the .... that I haven't kissed
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  1. What do they show in the video?
  2. Which part is your favorite?
  3. What band is your favorite? What music style do you like the most?
Stray kids - Christmas Love
Only English lyrics are written down
Red and white, we're underneath the Christmas lights
Hold me tight, I'll never leave your side
(Stray Kids) ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
starlight (ah-ah)
it's Christmas, yeah, yeah
under the mistletoe
Fall in love,
It's all about love,
we'll be making pink (ah-ah)
Yeah, I love you, yes, I love you
Christmas tree (ah-ah)
one-four-three (ah-ah)
Yeah, I love you, yes, I love you (ah-ah)
I just know (know), we play in the snow (snow)
let it go (go)
With each other we glow, oh, oh
One of a kind, yeah, you make me feel alive
You're the light of the night, I just love it when you shine
Stars in the sky, yeah, they glisten in your eyes
Feeling red 'cause I'm shy, you're my angel in white

Vocabulary (Stray Kids - Christmas Love)
mistletoe - a plant that traditionally you kiss under during Christmas
омела
to glow - give out steady light without flame.
светиться
one of a kind - unique.
единственный в своем роде
to shine - give out a bright light.
сиять
to glisten - shine with a sparkling light.
сверкать, блестеть, искриться
Christmas Love
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Under the ...., our love begins to....
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In the ....snow, we share a moment that's .....
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The lights ....brightly.
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