The Year-End Issue - Solutions

New Year's Eve

Pre-reading questions

1.a 2.a 3.b  4.b  5.b  6.a  7.b 8.a

New Year In Times Square

1.1904 - 1905 /  2.Lower Manhattan's Trinity Church, near Wall St. / 
3.To avoid hurting people with fireworks.  /  4. Twice, in 1942 and 1943
5.Seven /  6.2008

Auld Lang Syne

Find the 5 mistakes.

1.during the New Year’s celebration

2.to remember old friends

3.it means "long, long ago" or "days gone by."

4.The poem is thought to be composed by Robert Burns

5.in 1788

Idioms With The Word END

1. odds and ends   2. loose ends   3.at the end of my rope  4. the short end of the stick     5. at a dead end. 6.see beyond the end of his nose.  7.never hear the end of it.  8.a means to an end   9.the end justifies the means  10. light at the end of the tunnel .  11.end in tears. 12.End of story! 13.make ends meet. 14.the end of the world.  15.the candle at both ends

The End of the Year Crossword

Across:  4. The End   5.  Lady  8. Time  9.  Best  13.December  15. Confetti  17. Santa Claus  18. Hanukkah  19. Firework  20. Countdown

Down:  1. Period  2. New Year's Eve  3.Celebrate  4. Toast  6. Stroke  7. Times Square  10. Resolutions  11. Beans  12. Christmas  14. Song  16. Game over