Reading Competition: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Story activities made by our students: 

Example 1 http://bitsandpieces-english.blogspot.com/2012/12/exercise-for-christmas-carol.html

Example 2 http://friends-eng.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas%20Carol%20activities


1) Watch this video to get a general idea of the story. 

2) Students can now read about the main characters of the story.

❄ Scrooge is a horrible, nasty and mean man. He loves money more than his life. He always counts his money but he never gives any to the poor people, even for Christmas.

❄ Fred - Scrooge's nephew is a very kind man. He loves Christmas. And he always invites Scrooge to his Christmas but his grumpy uncle never accepts the invitation.

❄ Bob Cratchit - Scrooge’s clerk is a very poor man with a large family. He generally works hard and he does his best to be a good clerk. But he sometimes gets into trouble because Scrooge is very strict.

❄ Tiny Tim - Bob Cratchit's young son is handicapped from birth. He always walks with a crutch. Tiny Tim is always cheerful. He never sits or plays alone because everybody loves him. His father Bob always looks after him after work.

❄ Marley’s ghost is always in chains because Marley is damned for eternity. Marley was horrible and nasty when he was alive. Now he is punished so he is very miserable.

❄ The 1st spirit is the ghost of Christmas past. He takes Scrooge back to his childhood. He always carries a light.

❄ The 2nd spirit is the ghost of Christmas present. He takes Scrooge to Cratchit’s house and to his nephew’s house where everyone is celebrating Christmas. This spirit is often sarcastic and ironical.

❄ The 3rd spirit is the ghost of the future. He takes Scrooge to his own tomb. He never talks or answers a question, he is so scary!

3) Some pictures illustrating the story can be found here.

llustrations :

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/carol/gallery.html 

http://charlesdickenspage.com/illustrations-carol.html 

http://www.printspast.com/christmas-carol-prints-rackham.htm 

4) Students can now read the whole story on their handout and simultaneously listen to it by clicking here.

Baby cry 1

 It was midnight, when I heard a baby crying out of the door. I didn't know who was. At first I thought that it was a joke, but the baby was crying for long. Then the cry stoped. After a minute I saw someone moving in our garden, running to the house next to us. I was so scared, me and my brother looked out of the window again and we saw someone taking a girl out of the house. We called the police. When they arrived it was to late. The man had just put the girl in his car. After one week a dead body found out of the house next of us. It was the girl's body, the man killed her and he leaved a message on her body. It says; '' Dear Sigons, I killed your daughter, now it's your turn. Love your cousin.''

 

A Ghostly arm

Hello fantastic bloggers!

 Today, I'm here to tell you a GHOST STORY!

                              A GHOSTLY ARM

In April 1907 a letter appeared in theCity Press concerning the old section of the London Wall that now cowers beneath the gleaming white modernity of the Museum of London.A reader told how, on one Sunday night, he had been passing this relic when he noticed a hand and arm “stretched out from the railings to bar my passage.”He was so alarmed by this that he jumped into the road and, for a moment, turned his back to the railings. On summoning up the courage to look round, he saw a man in dark clothes, walking back to the wall. When he reached it he “seemed to walk right into it.”The bemused witness recalled how he had heard no sound of footsteps, and told how he had returned the next morning to examine the spot but could find nothing that threw any light on the mystery of what, or who, it was that he had encountered.

Funny Halloween videos

Funny:

Friends - Halloween Party, Part 1

Friends - Halloween Party, Part 2

History of the celebration:

Halloween History - Animated for Kids