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Title: A Christmas Carol

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By CHARLES DICKENS

ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS

New York THE PLATT & PECK CO.

Copyright, 1905, by The Baker & Taylor Company

" He had been Tim"s blood horse all the way from church. "

INTRODUCTION

The combined qualities of the realist and the idealist which Dickens possessed to a remarkable degree, together with his naturally jovial attitude toward life in general, seem to have given him a remarkably happy feeling toward Christmas, though the privations and hardships of his boyhood could have allowed him but little real experience with this day of days.

Dickens gave his first formal expression to his Christmas thoughts in his series of small books, the first of which was the famous "Christmas Carol," the one perfect chrysolite. The success of the book was immediate. Thackeray wrote of it: "Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this It seems to me a national benefit, and to every man or woman who reads it, a personal kindness. "

This volume was put forth in a very attractive manner, with illustrations by John Leech, who was the first artist to make these characters live, and his drawings were varied and spirited.

There followed upon this four others: "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Battle of Life," and "The Haunted Man," with illustrations on their first appearance by Doyle, Maclise, and others. The five are known to-day as the "Christmas Books. " Of them all the "Carol" is the best known and loved, and "The Cricket on the Hearth," although third in the series, is perhaps next in point of popularity, and is especially familiar to Americans through Joseph Jefferson"s characterisation of Caleb Plummer.

Dickens seems to have put his whole self into these glowing little stories. Whoever sees but a clever ghost story in the "Christmas Carol" misses its chief charm and lesson, for there is a different meaning in the movements of Scrooge and his attendant spirits. A new life is brought to Scrooge when he, "running to his window, opened it and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring cold; cold, piping for the blood to dance to; Golden sun-light; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells. Oh, glorious! Glorious! " All this brightness has its attendant shadow, and deep from the childish heart comes that true note of pathos, the ever memorable toast of Tiny Tim, "God bless Us, Every One! " "The Cricket on the Hearth" strikes a different note. Charmingly, poetically, the sweet chirping of the little cricket is associated with human feelings and actions, and at the crisis of the story decides the fate and fortune of the carrier and his wife.

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Сценарий Рождественской сказки на английском языке для учащихся 5 класса, созданный на основе произведений Чарльза Диккенса.

Аннотация.

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A Christmas Carol

(adapted after Ch.Dickens)

Story-teller : Have you ever heard about Christmas Carols? They are religious songs sung at Christmas. At Christmas time groups of people sing carols, both indoors and outdoors. They usually collect money for homeless and poor people. Sometimes carol singers, especially children, go along the streets from house to house, singing in front of each house and asking for money.

But there is a Christmas carol which is not a song or a hymn, it is a story told more than a century and a half ago by one of the most wonderful story-tellers of the world - Charles Dickens, the famous English writer.

Вы когда-нибудь слышали о том, что перед Рождеством люди в Европе и Америке поют особые рождественские песни? Это песни с религиозной или мирской темой. Перед Рождеством группы детей и взрослых ходят от дома к дому и поют так называемые Carols . И это похоже на наши Каляды. Таким образом люди собирают деньги и еду бедным, чтобы у всех был праздник.

Но есть и еще один Рождественский гимн. Это не песня, а сказка, которой почти два века.

И рассказал нам её замечательный английский писатель, известный во всем мире, Чарльз Диккенс. Может и вы слышали его имя. А мы сейчас покажем вам эту Рождественскую сказку на английском языке. Онаназывается A Christmas Carol.

Story-teller : Once upon a time old Ebenezer Scrooge sat busy in his office.

Ebenezer Scrooge : It is Christmas Eve and the weather is cold and foggy. (глядявприоткрытуюдверь) There is my nephew sitting and writing letters. Cratchit . I pay him less than a pound a week. This is not half enough for Cratchit"s large family. But I don"t like spending my money. That is why the fire in my office is very small and Bob Cratchit"s hands are so cold that he can hardly write. But I don"t like spending my money.

Bob Cratchit : Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!

Ebenezer Scrooge : Humbug! Merry Christmas??!!! You have no right to be merry. You are poor.

Bob Cratchit : You are telling the truth, uncle. I"m poor but I"m a happy man because I"m married a woman whom I love.

Ebenezer Scrooge : I cannot understand this. I think that love is even sillier than a Merry Christmas.

Bob Cratchit : I want to invite you to have Christmas dinner with me and my young wife, uncle Ebenezer.

Ebenezer Scrooge : I don"t want to hear about it!!!

Bob Cratchit : Sorry, uncle. Merry Christmas! (Боб уходит домой).

(слышно, как кто-то поет Рождественскую песню вдалеке и входят трое посетителей)(Silent Night )

Visitors : Sorry, may we come in?

Ebenezer Scrooge : Who are you?

Visitors : We are collecting money for poor people. There are a lot of people who are in need of simplest things , even food and clothes. Can you help them? It is Christmas time, the time for charity.

Ebenezer Scrooge : I won"t give you anything! I never give money for charity! Poor people"s place is in prison and work houses. Go out!

Visitors : Merry Christmas !

(слышно, как кто-то вдалеке поет Рождественскую песню We wish you a Merry Christmas , Скрудж резко открывает дверь, дети испугались и убежали)

Ebenezer Scrooge : Who"s there? Go away!

Now it"s time to go home. (Скруджуходит)

Bob Cratchit : At last it"s the time to close the office. The next day is the 25th of December and the office has to be closed for Christmas. Oh, it"s cold and I haven"t got a coat. Well, it"s OK. I can run fast to play Christmas games with my children.

(Скрудж сидит у камина, дремлет и слышит звонок в дверь)

В комнату входит привидение)

Ghost : Good evening , Mr .Scrooge .

Ebenezer Scrooge : Who are you? Well, I know you. You are the ghost of Marley, my partner, who died several years ago. Why do you trouble me?

Ghost: I had been very selfish when I was alive. I had been interested only in money and had not cared about people outside my office. That is why now I have no rest and no peace. I wear the chain I made in life link by link. Do you know, Ebenezer Scrooge, the weight and length of the chain you wear yourself? I am here tonight to tell you that you have yet a chance and hope not to go my way. Tonight you will see Three Spirits . The first will come tomorrow at one in the morning. And now I am leaving.

Ebenezer Scrooge : Oh, what was it? I"d better go to bed. (ложитсяспать)

1st Spirit : I am the Ghost of Christmas Past. Let"s travell to the past and remember something from your life.

Ebenezer Scrooge : I remember how lonely and unhappy I was once long ago when I was a schoolboy. I remember my kind sister who brought me home from school on Christmas Eve many years ago and we were together and had the merriest time in the world. My sister had a kind and large heart. but she was not very strong and died soon after she had a child - my nephew, Bob Cratchit.

2nd Spirit : I am the Ghost of Christmas Present. Now I will change your home. I will hang the walls with evergreens: holly, mistletoe, and ivy. I"m making a bright fire in the fireplace, filling the rooms with turkeys, geese, meat, puddings, cakes and fruit. Would you like to have a look at your nephew"s house?

Ebenezer Scrooge : No, no, I wouldn"t!

2nd Spirit : Look! Here they are. Bob, his wife and their six children are at home. They can"t see you, but you can see them and you can hear everything. The smallest boy called Tiny Tim is a very weak child and it is clear that he won"t live long. Mrs.Cratchit is cutting up the goose and the pudding is on the table. There isn"t enough food for such a large family, but nobody notices this. Everybody says to Mrs.Cratchit how much they love the goose and the pudding.

Bob Cratchit : "A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!"

Tiny Tim : "A Merry Christmas!"

All the family : God bless us, everyone!

Bob Cratchit : Let"s drink to Mr.Scrooge who gave us this dinner. Long life to him! A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2nd Spirit : They are not a rich family, they are not well-dressed, their shoes are cheap, but they are happy, grateful and pleased with one another.

Now look at your nephew"s home too. He is talking to his wife. They are talking about you.

Bob Cratchit : Uncle Scrooge is a funny old man and he isn"t very pleasant either. His money is of no use to him. He can"t do any good with it. I can"t be angry with him. I am sorry for him. I"d like to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the Old Man!

(второй призрак исчезает и появляется третий призрак)

Ebenezer Scrooge : Who are you?

3d Spirit : I am the Ghost Yet to Come, the Ghost of the Future. I want you to come with me to the centre of London, not far from your office. Look, there"s a group of businessmen. Come up to them and listen to their talk.

One of the businessmen : Look, this is former Mr.Scrooge"s office. Once I saw his grave. There are no flowers there. Nobody comes to remember him.

Ebenezer Scrooge : No, Spirit! Oh, no, no! I am not the man I was. Good Spirit, I"ll start a new life! I will keep Christmas in my heart all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future. I will always remember this lesson !

(все призраки исчезают и Скрудж оказывается снова в своей комнате)

Ebenezer Scrooge : Oh, now I am in my room again! How happy I am! (говоритвзал) A Merry Christmas to everybody! A Happy New Year to all the world!

Now I will send a huge turkey to Bob"s house. Where"s my best suit? I want to visit my nephew"s house.

(по дороге он встречает человека, который просил у него денег на благотворительность)

Ebenezer Scrooge : Excuse me, Sir? Can you take some money for charity? (даетденьги)

Visito r: My dear sir, I don"t know what to say to such kindness! Thank you. Merry Christmas and God bless you!

Ebenezer Scrooge : (пришелкплемяннику) I am sorry to be greedy and unkind. I ask you to forgive me. I want to say a Merry Christmas to all of you and I want to help you. (все вместе поют песню и держатся за руки)

Story-teller : Scrooge did it all, and much more. And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, as good a man, as the good old city knew.Ghosts did not visit him anymore, and people said that he knew how to keep Christmas better than anybody else. And so, as Tiny Tim said, God bless us, Everyone !

(все актеры выходят на сцену, держатся за руки и поют песню Silent Night )

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love"s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth

Вот так хорошо закончилась эта сказка. Старый дядя Скрудж стал добрым, помог семье своего племянника, а его любимец, маленький Тайни Тим вырос и продолжил его дело. Его компания стала еще более успешной и всегда помогала тем, кто нуждается в помощи, не только перед Рождеством, но всегда! Мы желаем и вам быть такими же добрыми, как маленький Тайни Тим.

С наступающими вас нашими любимыми зимними праздниками!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

(всевместеисполняютпесню )

We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.

We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.

We all want some figgy pudding
We all want some figgy pudding
And a cup of good cheer.
And we won"t go until we get some
We won"t go until we get some,
We won"t go until we get some.
So bring it right here.
Good tidings we bring to you and your kin.
We wish you a merry Christmas
And a happy New Year.
A happy New Year.

Уровень B. Прочее.

Christmas Story

Inspired by the forthcoming Christmas and my students

This story may have happened a long time ago or quite recently. There lived a boy named Thomas in a big house. His parents were very rich, so Tomas had always had everything he wanted. Everything except … happiness. One Christmas day he got up and, as usually, saw all kinds of nice presents under the Christmas tree. “Another boring Christmas”, – he thought yawning. – “Why do people like it so much?” The boy opened a couple of presents but it didn’t help much. Nothing made him happy.

Suddenly Thomas heard a strange noise coming from the window. He looked out and saw children joyfully playing in the street. They were wearing worn-out torn clothes, thus it was obvious that they were poor.

Thomas couldn’t refrain from staying at home. He came up to children and said: “Merry Christmas! Can I join you?” One of the boys answered: “You’re welcome”.

They made snowmen, played snowballs, sleighed and went carol singing till late. Thomas had never had such a wonderful Christmas! In the evening he invited poor children to his house for dinner. They ate a lot of tasty things and had a good time playing together.

The day was drawing to a close. “How wonderful this Christmas is!” – thought Thomas handing out the presents to poor children. They thanked the boy as they had never got such things before.

When he heard it, he became as happy as a king and understood that the real happiness is the opportunity to share your joy with the others.

May this day be so special that you never ever feel lonely and be surrounded by loved ones throughout! Merry Coming Christmas!

Возможно, эта история произошла давным-давно, а может, совсем недавно. В большом доме жил-был мальчик по имени Томас. У него были очень богатые родители, поэтому у Томаса всегда было все, что он хотел. Все, кроме… счастья.

Однажды на Рождество он проснулся и как обычно увидел под елкой много всяких красивых подарков. «Еще одно скучное Рождество», – подумал он, зевая. – «И почему оно так нравится людям?» Он открыл пару подарков, но это не помогло. Ничто его не радовало.

Вдруг Томас услышал странный шум, доносящийся из окна. Он выглянул и увидел детей, радостно играющих на улице. Все они были одеты в поношенную и рваную одежду, и понятно, что они были бедные.

Томас не смог усидеть дома. Он подошел к детям и сказал: «Счастливого Рождества! Можно с вами поиграть?» Один из мальчиков сказал: «Конечно».

Они лепили снеговиков, играли в снежки, катались на санках и пели рождественские колядки допоздна. У Томаса еще никогда не было такого чудесного Рождества. Вечером он пригласил бедных детей к себе домой на ужин. Они ели всякие вкусности и хорошо проводили время.

День приближался к концу. «Какое же чудесное это Рождество!» – думал мальчик, раздавая подарки бедным детям. Они поблагодарили мальчика, так как никогда еще не получали таких подарков.

Когда он это услышал, то несказанно обрадовался и понял, что настоящее счастье – это возможность делиться своей радостью с другими.

Пусть в этот день и весь грядущий год с вами будут близкие и любящие люди! С наступающим Рождеством!

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

Title: A Christmas Carol

Illustrator: George Alfred Williams

Release Date: September 20, 2006
Last updated: January 21, 2009

Language: English

Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By CHARLES DICKENS

ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS

New York THE PLATT & PECK CO.

Copyright, 1905, by The Baker & Taylor Company

" He had been Tim"s blood horse all the way from church. "

INTRODUCTION

This volume was put forth in a very attractive manner, with illustrations by John Leech, who was the first artist to make these characters live, and his drawings were varied and spirited.

In this book of excitement the main character, Scrooge, who is acomplete grouch (especially at Christmas) is visited by the ghost of hisdead business partner who is there to warn him. The Ghost tells himthat he will be visited by three more ghosts. And they take him on ajourney through Christmas Past, Present, and Future to see the ups ofChristmas and the downs of the way he is living to try to save him andmany others from himself, and his huge Bah Humbug Attitude. This book isan eye opener and a sensation.
Dickens sets his novella in this the Christmas period to show thetrue meaning of sharing, giving and receiving. Through hisrepresentation of Scrooge, Dickens wants the reader to learn from hismiserable personality and to encourage others to change their ways too.It seems that the reason why he wanted to do this was because the richdidn’t appreciate the poor; during the Industrial Revolution the gapwidened between the rich and the poor - the poor being forgotten. Thisis why Scrooge then was visited by three different ghosts: the past,present and future. These ghosts highlight the need for Scrooge tochange and value the poor and recognise their needs.