Festive Movies
New Year Traditions
Vocabulary Gaps
100

This movie features a boy who is left home alone during Christmas and must defend his house from burglars.

Home Alone

100

The Grandfather in a red fur coat and a big beard in the USA

Santa Claus

100

I feel ________ when I do something wrong in front of others.

ashamed

200

Zhenya Lukashin, an ordinary doctor from Moscow, lives with his mother and is preparing to celebrate the New Year with his fiancee Galya. Mom and son have just moved to a new address, 25 Stroiteley 3rd Street, apartment 12. Mom hopes that her 36-year-old son will finally get married, and Zhenya is preparing to propose to his bride without much enthusiasm. Before the New Year, he traditionally goes to the sauna with friends.

Irony of fate, or With a light steam!

200

Who is talking on TV at 00:00 on New Year's Eve in Russia

The President of Russia 
200

I was ________ to get a nice gift for New Year

delighted

300

The Soviet story is about how one bureaucrat tried to subordinate the preparation for the New Year to strict accounting and control, and what came of it.

Carnival Night

300

What is decorated for the new year

Christmas tree

300

He was ________ before the New Year’s party started.

anxious

400

Mattress salesman Howard Langston spends little time with his son, he is at work all the time. Deciding to please the boy with the best Christmas gift that can be — a Turboman figurine, he goes in search of it. And it's not easy to find this coveted figure. He needs to go around the whole city, and he's not alone, there are competitors everywhere who want to please their kids. While the mattress salesman Howard is running off his feet looking for a gift, the son is wondering where dad has gone, and the neighbor is trying to hit on his wife.

A Christmas present

400

When is the old New Year celebrated in Russia

January 14th

400

They were ________ of a person who acted strange. 

suspicious

500

During the First World War, the fates of several people from different countries are intertwined. Two brothers from Scotland go to the front, and their father becomes a chaplain. A German opera singer and his Danish bride perform in front of Prince William, and then decide to sing for the soldiers. A French officer is having a hard time breaking up with his pregnant wife. All of them will meet on the front line under very unusual circumstances.

Merry Christmas

500

Which of the rulers of Russia made the new year familiar to us (in the European style)

Peter the Great

500

She felt ________ when she achieved her New Year’s resolution.

proud