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- 3. A type of long noodles made from buckwheat.
- 6. Two thousand and ______. Twenty twenty ______.
- 7. A goal you make for the new year.
- 8. The night before. New Year's ____, Christmas ______
- 11. On New Year's, they ring the ____.
- 12. This year is the year of the _______. (The zodiac, the animal of the year. There are 12, last year was the year of the rabbit.
- 14. When you hope something will happen.
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- 1. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
- 2. _____ New Year!
- 3. In Japan, lots of people go to a _______ for Hatsumode.
- 4. When the sun comes up in the morning and dark turns to light.
- 5. Beautiful explosions of different colours in the sky used to celebrate.
- 9. It's the ___ of the old year and the start of the new year.
- 10. A group of people celebrate together, normally with food, singing and dancing.
- 13. The opposite of old.