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Christmas Lesson Intermediate Worksheet B
1. My Christmas: Guess if I m lying
Tell your partner how you feel about Christmas. Answer the questions trying to sound natural,
interesting and convincing but... include one piece of information that is not true. Your partner s task
is to guess which is false.
1. How do you usually spend Christmas?
2. What do like about Christmas?
3. What do you not like about it?
4. How and when do you prepare/buy presents for your family and friends?
5. Would you like to skip Christmas altogether?
2. Skipping Christmas
a). Make sure you know the following words and phrases before you read the text:
a memo to get an award a change of scene Fiancé
Frosty to skip luxury hotels to have it (your) way
to adorn Peace Corps to stick to the plan to pick up the phone
b). Read the text below and answer the questions on the right.
Luther and Nora Krank live in Hemlock Street, a nice little street in a 1. Would you like to live in
nice little town somewhere in the States, where people celebrate Hemlock Street? Why?
Christmas the best they can. Frohmayer, one of the neighbours sends 2. What award is the street
everyone round a memo when the right time comes and all try to competing for?
adorn their houses so that the street gets the award for the best 3. Would you like to/Do you
decorations. have a neighbour like
Frohmayer?
All is nice and lovely until Lora and Luther decide to skip Christmas. 4. Why do the Kranks decide
Blair, their daughter is not coming home as she s travelling with the to skip Christmas?
Peace Corps in Peru, and anyway last year they spent 6100 dollars on 5. What do they want to do?
Christmas. Not an insignificant amount. They feel a change of scene 6. Why, do you think, it is not
would be good and decide to have it their way. The plan is to go to easy to stick to the plan?
the Caribbean: warm beaches, luxury hotels and no need to worry
about Christmas dinners, Christmas decorations or Christmas
shopping. It is not easy to stick to the plan but they ve made the
decision and are now getting ready for the trip.
And then, one morning the phone rings. Luther picks up and hears his 7. Why is Blair going back
daughter calling home from Miami. She s come back to the States for home for Christmas?
Christmas. She s bringing Enrique, her fiancé, who has never been to 8. What, do you think, will
the States. She told him all about Christmas there - the tree, the Nora and Luther do?
decorations, Frosty up on the roof, Christmas party and the snow.
Based on Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
3. Role Plays: In pairs plan and act out one of the situations below. You may write the whole dialogue
or just jot down a few phrases to help you remember what you want to say.
a). phone conversation between Blair and her father
b). conversation between Nora and Luther after they found out Blair is going back home
c). conversation between Luther and Frohmayer about their Christmas plans
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