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Three pictures showing traditional settings for Christmas day, new years and burns night in Scotland.

You are carrying out a project on festivals and special celebrations with your French partner school. You created a short presentation and your class has put together some questions and answers. Listen to the audio then try to answer the questions that follow. Follow up activity - How would you answer these same questions?

Parle-moi un peu d'une f锚te typiquement 茅cossaise.

Le hogmany est une f锚te 茅cossaise importante qui a lieu le trente-une decembre et c'est une c茅l茅bration du nouvel an. Il y a de nombreuses coutumes. Une tradition ancienne mais courante est le 'first footing' qui commence juste apr猫s minuit. Si on est la premi猫re personne 脿 franchir le pas de la porte d'un voisin, on apporte un petit cadeau. Traditionnellement c'est du sel ou du charbon. Mais, ce qui est plus typique aujourd'hui c'est le whisky ou le sabl茅.

Question

Give three pieces of information this person says about Hogmanay.

Question

She mentions the custom of 鈥榝irst footing鈥, if you are the first person to enter someone鈥檚 house, what does she say you should bring, traditionally?

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