Learn the expressions of certain traditional congratulations.

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and my very best wishes!

(The) Same to you!

May Day greetings to you! Victory Day greetings to you!

2. Here are congratulations on other occasions. Invent and describe a
scene of congratulating, using some of these expressions.

Congratulations on your success/ С удачей!

on your good luck!

Congratulations on your lucky win!

Happy birthday!

Many happy returns of the day!

I hear you've defended your thesis.

Congratulations!

You've finished school.

Congratulations!

You're a student now.

Congratulations!

I hear you've got your first pay wages.

Congratulations!

Welcome!

Welcome home!

I hear you've defended

your graduation project/got

your first degree. Congratulations!

С выигрышем!

Поздравляю с днем рождения!

С защитой диплома!

С окончанием школы!

С поступлением в институт!

 

С первой зарплатой!

С приездом! С прибытием! С возвращением! Ты, говорят, уже защитил диплом? Поздравляю!

3. Learn the expressions used when giving a present.

We'd like you to accept this very modest token of our esteem. Here's our little gift/present.

And this is for you (from me/us).

And here's a little souvenir to remember me/us by. And this is a little memento from me/us.

Примите наш скромный подарок

в знак нашего уважения к вам.

Прими(те) наш небольшой

подарок.

(А) это вам в подарок

(от меня, от нас).

Это вам на память.

4. Make short poems with different wishes (see examples below). Don't forget to thank for kind wishes or to wish the same.