Christmas. My Christmas: Guess if I’m lying. Skipping Christmas

Christmas

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?

Skipping Christmas

1. 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

2. 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 nice little town somewhere in the States, where people celebrate Christmas the best they can. Frohmayer, one of the neighbours sends everyone round a memo when the right time comes and all try to adorn their houses so that the street gets the award for the best decorations.	1. Would you like to live in Hemlock Street? Why? 2. What award is the street competing for? 3. Would you like to/Do you have a neighbour like Frohmayer?
All is nice and lovely until Lora and Luther decide to skip Christmas. Blair, their daughter is not coming home as she’s travelling with the Peace Corps in Peru, and anyway last year they spent 6100 dollars on Christmas. Not an insignificant amount. They feel a change of scene would be good and decide to have it their way. The plan is to go to 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.	4. Why do the Kranks decide to skip Christmas? 5. What do they want to do? 6. Why, do you think, it is not easy to stick to the plan?
And then, one morning the phone rings. Luther picks up and hears his daughter calling home from Miami. She’s come back to the States for Christmas. She’s bringing Enrique, her fiancé, who has never been to the States. She told him all about Christmas there - the tree, the decorations, Frosty up on the roof, Christmas party and the snow.	7. Why is Blair going back home for Christmas? 8. What, do you think, will Nora and Luther do?

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.

1. phone conversation between Blair and her father

2. conversation between Nora and Luther after they found out Blair is going back home

3. conversation between Luther and Frohmayer about their Christmas plans

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