Christmas Carol

Christmas is:

• a wonderful time of parties
• a time of presents
• a festival of food and drink
• a time of excitement
• a time of expectations of something extraordinary to happen

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

A Christmas Carol

David Copperfield

Great Expectations

What did he write about in your opinion?

• his own life man’s vices successful and generous people
• his own life man’s vices successful and generous people
• his own life man’s vices successful and generous people
• his own life
• man’s vices
• successful and generous people

«A Christmas Carol»

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Chain

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Christmas carol

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Greedy

Spirit

Soul

Orphan

Christmas eve

Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the most famous characters in English literature.

cold-hearted

greedy

miser

old

lonely

Scrooge is

What can you say about England of 19 th century? What were the workhouses? What vices did Dickens speak about? Why is Scrooge lonely? Can such kind of person be happy? What will happen next?

Dickens

Charles ________ wrote A Christmas ____ in 1843. The main character of the book is called ______. Although he is rich, he is very _____ to everybody. He doesn't like giving ______ to people and he never _____ or laughs. Jacob Marley used to work with Scrooge, but he _____ before the story begins.

Then one day, just before ________, Scrooge sees a ghost ...

Carol

Scrooge

greedy

money

smiles

died

Christmas

1. Did Scrooge know the ghost?

2. Who was the ghost?

3. Was it a friendly ghost?

4. What did it want to do?

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At home that night, Scrooge is visited by ______  who is forever cursed in heavy ______ . He tells Scrooge that he can avoid the same ____ . _____ spirits will visit Scrooge. The first of the spirits is the Ghost of Christmas ____ . 

Marley

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