Презентация на тему New Year Celebrations in New Yorkp,

the world are focused on the sparkling Waterford Crystal

Times Square New Year's Eve Ball. At 11:59 p.m., the Ball begins its descent as millions of voices unite to count down the final seconds of the year, and celebrate the beginning of a new year full of hopes, challenges, changes and dreams.

Times Square Ball

Ball in Times Square has made an epic drop which

regard as the official start of a fresh calendar.
Every year, about a million people tackle freezing temperatures to watch it live. Another hundred million sit glued to their TVs as parties rage around them.
All for a Ball? Well, not just any Ball. This one's got some history...

flagpole in 1907 to rally attention to the new New York

Times building. Made from iron and wood, the Ball was decorated with a hundred light bulbs.

York Times moved to a new building. One Times Square

is now totally empty except for a Walgreen's, offices for a New Year's planning company, and the Ball on its roof.

seven times. From 1981 to 1988, it had a stem like

an apple... as in "the Big Apple." 

in 1942 and 1943, due to wartime dim-outs. Reverent crowds

still came to Times Square for moments of silence.

change every year- previous year, their theme was "Gift

of Imagination." The 2014 triangles had been cut so they "appear to be endless mirrored reflections of each other.”

-- onto Times Square after the Ball's descent. A

few days before, they throw test confetti off various buildings to make sure it won't scratch somebody's eye. During showtime, handwritten wishes from tourists are mixed
into the confetti
shower.

so whopping, depending on what you expect) 12 feet wide(3,6

м). It weighs over 11,000 pounds.

visibly perched on the roof of One Times Square.

60 seconds.

a bona fide international phenomenon. Each year, hundreds of

thousands of people still gather around the Tower, now known as One Times Square, and wait for hours in the cold of a New York winter for the famous Ball-lowering ceremony. Thanks to satellite technology, a worldwide audience estimated at over one billion people watches the ceremony each year. The lowering of the Ball has become the world's symbolic welcome to the New Year.