A Christmas Carol Domino
Christmas
Carol
turkey
wood
coal
money
lender
early life
master
apprentice
fiddler
nouns
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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
holly
clerk
goose
crown
beggar
ivy
warmth
hospital
care
nephew
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Irregular verbs Fill in the missing forms
1st form
I
3rd form
R
R
Ö sat
Ö hear
rd
Ö ran
st
3 form
E
1 form
Ö told
G
2nd form
Ö hang
U
3rd form
Ö buy
rd
L
3 form
Ö leave
A
1st form
Ö could
R
3rd form
Ö learn
V
2nd form
Ö give
st
E
1 form
Ö saw
R
2nd form
Ö run
rd
Ö be
nd
2 form
Ö cost
Irregular verbs Key
S I T
1st form
Ö sat
H E A R D
3rd form
Ö hear
B
3 form
S
rd
R U N
T E L
L
H U N G
Ö ran
1st form
Ö told
nd
Ö hang
rd
3 form
Ö buy
3rd form
Ö leave
1st form
Ö could
2 form
B O U G H T
L E F
3 form
T
C A N
rd
L E A R N T
3 form
Ö learn
G A V E
2nd form
Ö give
S E E
1st form
Ö saw
R A N
B E E N
C O S T
nd
Ö run
rd
3 form
Ö be
2nd form
Ö cost
2 form
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Opposites Can you find the missing words using the expressions from the text?
generous
niece
master
divorce
all day
small
appear
women
rich
take away
morning
stand
hot
light
alive
weep
early
awake
husband
son
hated
ice
messy
girl
worse
whispered
up
sell
Opposites - Key
generous
tight-fisted
niece
nephew
master
apprentice
divorce
marry
all day
all night
small
large
appear
disappear
women
men
rich
poor
take away
give
morning
evening
stand
sit
hot
cold
light
dark
alive
dead
weep
laugh
early
late
awake
asleep
husband
wife
son
daughter
hated
loved
ice
fire
messy
neat
girl
boy
worse
better
whispered
shouted
up
down
sell
buy
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Multiple Choice: tick off a, b or c
Words
What is this?
a: a clerk
a: an ivy
b: a ghost
b: a mistletoe
c: a teacher
c: a holly
a: a hamburger
a: a fiddle
b: an apple
b: a horn
c: a turkey
c: a piano
Multiple Choice: tick off a, b or c
Words Key
What is this?
a: a clerk
a: an ivy
b: a ghost
b: a mistletoe
c: a teacher
c: a holly
a: a hamburger
a: a fiddle
b: an apple
b: a horn
c: a turkey
c: a piano
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True or False
T F
Ebenezer Scrooge was rich.
He wanted to give money to the poor.
In Scrooge’s room a fire was burning in the fireplace.
The name of his dead partner was Jacob Marley.
The Ghost of Christmas Past took Scrooge to the future.
The Ghost of Christmas Present took him to the past.
The name of Scrooge’s master was Mr Feeziwig.
A fiddler is a man who blows a horn.
Bob Cratchit was Scrooge’s clerk.
Cratchit had three children.
The boy’s name was Tiny Tim.
The Cratchit family sat around a table to have Christmas dinner.
Scrooge slept in pink pyjamas.
Scrooge bought a big turkey.
At the end Scrooge went to his favourite pub.
‘A Christmas Carol’ was written by Geoffrey Dickens.
He lived in the eleventh century.
True or False
Ebenezer Scrooge was rich.
He wanted to give money to the poor.
In Scrooge’s room a fire was burning in the fireplace.
The name of his dead partner was Jacob Marley.
The Ghost of Christmas Past took Scrooge to the future.
The Ghost of Christmas Present took him to the past.
The name of Scrooge’s master was Mr Feeziwig.
A fiddler is a man who blows a horn.
Bob Cratchit was Scrooge’s clerk.
Cratchit had three children.
The boy’s name was Tiny Tim.
The Cratchit family sat around a table to have Christmas dinner.
Scrooge slept in pink pyjamas.
Scrooge bought a big turkey.
At the end Scrooge went to his favourite pub.
‘A Christmas Carol’ was written by Geoffrey Dickens.
He lived in the eleventh century.
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T F
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
simplified retold
One of the most famous stories of English literature
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(1) Ebenezer Scrooge was a money lender and he
was a tight-fisted old miser. At Christmas
time, when men came to ask for some money for
the poor, he did not give them any.
When his nephew visited him to wish
’A Merry Christmas’ he only answered angrily,
“Bah, humbug. Who entitles you to be merry,
you're poor enough.” But he did not know that
he was not happy either, although he had more
than enough.
(2) On Christmas Eve, Scrooge was sitting at home
alone in his cold room. He didn't even make a
fire, because coal and wood cost money.
Suddenly, it was almost dark in the room.
There was a dull sound from his cellar and up
the stairs came the wandering ghost of his
dead partner, Marley. He stopped in front of
the miser.
He told Scrooge to become a better man, to be
kind to people, to pity them and to laugh
with them. Soon it would be too late; just as
it had been too late for him, Marley.
(3) During that night while Scrooge was asleep in
his bed, the Ghost of Christmas Past took the
miser back to happier days in his early life.
Scrooge saw himself as a young man having fun
with friendly people. What a kind man Mr.
Feeziwig, his master, and his wife had been.
Their three lovely daughters had celebrated
Christmas with him and the other apprentices!
There had been a fiddler and they had danced,
dined and played games all night.
Next the Ghost took him to a girl’s home who
he hadn't married. He had left her because he
prefered gold to a loving wife. Scrooge
learned his first lesson. “Perhaps”, he
thought, “I have been too selfish?”
money lender =
Geldverleiher
tight-fisted =
knausrig
miser = Geizhals
nephew = Neffe
merry = glücklich
entitle = berechtigen
humbug = Unsinn
enough = genug
eve = Vorabend
coal = Kohle
wood = Holz
dull = dumpf
pity so. = jmd.
bemitleiden
in early life =
Jugendzeit
have fun = Spaß
haben
master = Lehrherr
celebrate = feiern
apprentice = Lehrling
fiddler =
Geigenspieler
dine = speisen
marry = heiraten
prefer to = lieber
mögen
learn one’s lesson =
seine Lektion lernen
perhaps = vielleicht
selfish = egoistisch
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(4) But Scrooge had no time to think about the
past, because there sat the Ghost of
Christmas Present. There was a roaring fire
in the fireplace, the room was hung with
holly, ivy and mistletoe, and the Ghost was
sitting on a kind of throne made up of
turkeys, geese, little pigs, sausages,
Christmas puddings, apples and pears, oranges
and cakes.
He told Scrooge to touch his hand - and he
was no longer in his own room. No, he found
himself in a poor but neat room. It was the
home of his clerk, Bob Cratchit.
(5) Martha, Bob's daughter, had just come home.
She even had to work on Christmas Day. There
was a goose for dinner, a very small goose
for such a large family, but they all said it
was the most wonderful goose ever cooked.
Although they were poor, there was warmth and
love which made them happy. But - there was
also Tiny Tim. Bob's little boy was an
invalid and the family was too poor for
doctors or hospital care. “If things don't
become better for Cratchit,” the Ghost told
Scrooge, “the boy will die.”
roaring = lodernd
hang-hung-hung =
schmücken
holly = Stechpalme
ivy = Efeu
mistletoe = Mistel
turkey = Truthahn
geese = Gänse
touch = berühren
neat = sauber
clerk = Buchhalter
even = sogar
goose = Gans
large = groß
ever = jemals
although = obwohl
warmth =
Herzlichkeit
hospital care =
Spitalsbehandlung
become - became become = werden
die = sterben
(6) Someone had died. That was quite clear. The
Ghost of Christmas Future showed Scrooge
glad = glücklich
people who were glad that he, the tightfisted miser who had never been good to
anyone, was dead at last. Scrooge had never
shown any feeling of love and friendship. And
all people were glad that he was dead. “Hear
me, oh Ghost,” Scrooge shouted, “I am not the
man I was. And if I can turn into what you
have shown me, I will.”
The Ghost disappeared. Scrooge looked around.
He was back in his own bed in his room. Best disappear =
verschwinden
of all, the time ahead of him was his own
future. He wanted to become a better man!
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(7) He jumped out of bed in his nightshirt and
nightcap. Then he ran to the window thanking
old Jacob Marley many times.
“Hallo, everybody,” he shouted out of the
window. “A Merry Christmas to everybody! A
Happy New Year to the whole world.” “What's
address =
today?” cried Scrooge, addressing a boy
ansprechen
in Sunday clothes. “Today?” replied the boy.
“Christmas Day!” It was marvellous. The Ghost reply = antworten
marvellous =
had changed all in only one night. Scrooge
erstaunlich
had not missed Christmas Day.
miss = versäumen
(8) Then he told the boy to go and buy the big
prize turkey from the shop-window at the
corner. Scrooge gave the boy half a crown for
it. “I'll send it to Bob Cratchit,” Scrooge
said to himself. “It's twice the size of Tiny
Tim.”
Scrooge went to church and walked about the
streets greeting people, watching them,
speaking to children and beggars. He finally
noticed that he enjoyed it. Loved it very
much. He had never been happier in his life.
Ebenezer Scrooge had learned his lesson for
the rest of his life.
holly = Stechpalme
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big prize = teuerste
crown = Silbermünze
twice = zweimal
size = Größe
greet = grüßen
beggar = Bettler
notice = bemerken
enjoy = Gefallen
finden
ivy = Efeu
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