(Situation 2)

Mum: Tina, what’s the matter with you again? What were you doing?

Tina: Well, it’s my school bag.

Mum: Tina, your schoolbag! You tore it!

Tina: Oh, mum, you see, it’s a long story.

Mum: What is it?

Tina: I was walking to my dancing class and I was talking on the phone with my friend. Suddenly I heard a loud sound and I saw three aliens. They were short and funny. They invited me to their spaceship.

Mum: Oh, really?

Tina: Yes. I went up to them. We were eating alien food and drinking alien tea. It was great! But then some monsters attacked us.

Mum: What?

Tina: They were ugly and scary. One of them was flying after me! And it caught my schoolbag and tore it. It wanted to take my school books. But I ran away.

Mum: Oh, Tina, you are so naughty!

Unit 4, Lesson 8, Ex. 1b

While the kids were playing outside,

Someone in red was taking a ride.

Can you guess who the old man was?

It was the kids’ best friend Santa Claus!

Unit 4, Lesson 8, Ex. 2a

1. At Christmas you can hear carols or Christmas songs. People sing them in church. And we have special concerts at schools. Sometimes we gather with friends and sing carols outside other people’s houses and collect money for poor people. I like Silent Night best.

2. Sure it’s Christmas morning. Because you open your stockings and find there small presents like nuts & fruit, cards & crayons, balloons & sweets there. And then you go down to open the bigger presents under the Christmas tree. What a wonderful time!

3. It’s different with different people. You can buy lots of nice cards in the shops. But you can make a card yourself. I like to get a lot of cards and I send a lot of them to my friends. And I make some of them myself.

4. Before going to bed on Christmas Eve all children hang a stocking at the end of the bed or fireplace. We call it a stocking, but it can be a bag that looks like a stocking. My little sister believes that Santa Claus will come in the night and put presents there.

5. Christmas dinner is special. All the family are at home and Mum cooks turkey with potatoes and vegetables. Then we have Christmas pudding. Sometimes mum puts coins in it, so you must be careful. Oh, yes before the dinner we pull Christmas crackers. Bang! And there is a small toy or a joke. It’s like magic!

Unit 4, Lesson 8, Ex. 4a

It was cold in the village of Galgate. It was warm in the hearts of the people. Christmas was coming. The people of Galgate were getting Christmas cards, decorating the Christmas trees.

Naughty Elaine was walking home with her father. She wanted to have the best Christmas present in the village. Elaine closed her eyes. She imagined a new dress and pretty dolls under the Christmas tree.

Henry, the shoemaker, was sitting by the window. He was sad. “People are so happy at Christmas. They get presents. I won’t get any presents. I haven’t got any family or friends,” he told his bird.

Then Maureen, the poor farmer, came to his shop and asked him to fix an old pair of shoes. She was crying when she said, “Please, help me. My little granddaughter Pat has no other shoes.”

That night, when Henry was sleeping, he had a dream. An angel told him, “Christmas is magic. But good people can make magic too. Don’t give rich presents. Be kind to people. What goes around comes around.” Now Henry knew what to do.

Next morning he got up very early and started making boots. They were beautiful warm boots, good for a princess. The boots were ready in four hours. He put them in the window and people went by and said, “These boots would be the finest present for any girl.”

Elaine wanted to have the boots, but they were not for her. They were for the poor girl who was sitting at home and looking at the children playing in the snow. Henry ran to Maureen’s house and gave little Pat the boots. He saw her happy eyes and he understood that he had the best Christmas present - a friend. Now he believed in Christmas magic.