Film project
A. Answer.
1. What is special about Christmas? ________________________________________________________________________
2. How does your family celebrate it? _______________________________________________________________________
3. Are there any special celebrations or traditions where you live? ________________________________________________
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B. Choose the corresponding option.
1. The film takes place in _________
a. a city near the Mediterranean Sea. b. a city covered in snow. c. a town in the mountains.
2. In the first scene, we can see that Ebenezer Scrooge is __________
a. a very mean character. b. a beloved person c. a man that appreciates people around him.
3. On Christmas Eve, the people in this city __________
a. stay in their houses and offices. b. sing, play and dance on the streets and in their houses. c. have no merry spirits.
C. Complete the following sentences.
1. When people on the streets look at Scrooge, they ____________________________________________________________________
2. Scrooge works with _______________________________________________________
3. Scrooge’s nephew drops by in order to _______________________________________________________________
4. Two men go into the office, they want ______________________________________________________________
5. How does Scrooge react to the men’s request? _____________________________________________________________
D. True or false?
1. Scrooge arrives at his home and has dinner with his family. _________
2. His partner Marley appears as a ghost tied up to some heavy chains. _________
3. Scrooge feels relieved and joyful when he sees his friend. _________
4. His partner has to carry the chains which he has forged during his whole life. __________
5. These chains do not allow him to move and therefore he remains in one place. _________
E. Put the following events as they happen in the story.
_________ Then, they go to the place where he was an apprentice. They organise a Christmas Party.
_________ On another Christmas Eve, Ebenezer’s sister picks him up and takes him home with his family.
_________ they only person at school is a lonely boy abandoned by his friends; this boy is Scrooge.
_________ They fly together and arrive at the place where Scrooge was raised.
_________ In this event, he falls in love with a woman.
_________ The first spirit appears. It is the ghost of Christmas Past.
F. Match.
a. …follows him all around the city.
1. The ghost of Christmas Future appears and _______
b. ...immense sadness when Timmy dies.
2. He shows Scrooge the moment after _______
3. People talk about him and describe him _______ c. ...his own funeral.
4. Then a cart with two terrifying horses _______ d. ...does not speak at all, terrifying Scrooge.
5. He arrives at Mrs Dilber’s house _______ e. ...as a very stingy and miserable person.
6. Scrooge sees the Cratchit family’s _______ f. ...and sees that she did not like him either.
G. Complete the following sentences.
1. When Scrooge sees all these images of the future, he ____________________________________________________________________
2. He is constantly asking the ghost ____________________________________________________________________________
3. When he gets up the following day, the first thing he does _____________________________________________________________
4. In the end, Cratchit tells us that Scrooge _____________________________________________________________________________
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5. Is this celebration important for you? Why? ___________________________________________________________________________
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H. Draw what Christmas represents for you.
