The Shoemaker and the Elves Christmas Story 1. Match the words with their definitions. 1. once upon a time 5. desperately a) including all of something, from the beginning to the end b) in a way that shows you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others c)to continue d) to burn, shine, or move like a flame in quickly changing forms of light and dark e) to understand or solve something 6. to make money f) to go to bed later than usual 7. to hug g) animal skin treated in order to preserve it, and used to make shoes, bags, clothes, etc. h) a person or company that makes shoes i) to try to solve a problem or understand a situation by thinking carefully about it j) to earn money k) If your eyes fall on something, or your sight, eyes, etc. fall on something, you see and notice it l) to hold someone close to your body with your arms, usually to show that you like, love, or value them m) extremely beautiful and delicate o) used at the beginning of children's stories to mean "a long time ago" 2. a shoemaker 3. leather 4. from start to finish 8. to fall upon sth 9. exquisite /ˈɛkskwɪzɪt/ 10. to go on 11. to puzzle 12. to figure out 13. to stay up 14. to flicker 15. midnight 16. tattered 17. in the blink of an eye p) (especially of cloth or paper) badly torn q) twelve o'clock in the middle of the night r) extremely quickly 2.Listen to the story and fill in the gaps. (1:14- 2:00) Double, admired, left over, leather, fell upon, woke up, puzzled (x2) Early the next morning, the shoemaker ____________ . He got ready to sew his last pair of shoes. When he got to his workbench, his eyes ______ _____ the most beautiful pair of shoes he had ever seen. The shoemaker ________ and __________ over who could have made these beautiful shoes. Later that day, a customer came into the workshop and __________ the beautiful shoes. They fit his feet so perfectly that the customer paid _________ the money for them. The shoemaker smiled at his wife. “We now have enough money to buy __________ for two more pairs of shoes,” he said happily. “There’s even a little money _________ ____ to buy some food for dinner.” 3. Answer the following questions. 1) What do we know about the shoemaker and his family? How do they live? 2) Which material did the shoemaker use to make his shoes? 3) When the events in the story take place? Can you prove it? 4) What happened to the last pair of shoes the shoemaker was going to finish? How did he feel about it? 5) What happened to this pair of shoes later on? 6) How the shoemaker and his wife decided to thank little elves?
