A Christmas Carol (A2 level) E-Book

Charles Dickens.

• Herausgeber: Imaginaria Books
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Adaptaciones
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 27

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Christmas time arrives, but Ebenezer Scrooge is not happy. He is an old and very rich businessman of London. He doesn't like Christmas, and he is not a kind person. He doesn't help poor people, and he isn't nice to his family. One night, the ghost of Jacob Marley, his old business partner, visits him. He tells Scrooge that three different spirits will come. Marley sends these ghosts to show Scrooge that it is important to be happy and love the people around us. Vocabulary included

Leseprobe

Charles Dickens

A ChristmasCarol (A2)

Adapted byMaría Losa García

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INDEX

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

VOCABULARY

I

The Ghost of Marley

Marley was dead, there was no doubt about it. The priest1, the clerk2, the funeral director, and Scrooge all signed the paper.

Old Marley was definitely dead. And Scrooge knew it very well. They were business partners3 for many years, and he got everything after Marley died. Scrooge got his money and his business because he was his only friend. He was the only person at the funeral, but he wasn’t sad. That day he worked in his office and made money, so he was happy.

Now we know that Marley was dead. This is very important for the story.

Some years later, the sign at the office door still said: Scrooge and Marley. People sometimes called him Scrooge and sometimes Marley, but he didn’t care.

Scrooge wasn’t a nice man. He was greedy4 and liked money. He didn’t like people and had no friends. He was a cold person, and this made his face hard and cold, like ice, and his lips blue.

Cold or hot weather, rain, snow, wind… it was all the same for Scrooge. He was worse than the weather. Nobody spoke to Scrooge in the street. He never heard “Hello, how are you?”. Poor5 people never asked him for money. No child asked him the time, and no man or woman asked him for help.

But Scrooge didn’t care. He wanted to be alone. He liked to walk without people around him.

Christmas Eve arrived, and he was working in his office. Outside, the weather was cold and foggy6. People in the street moved their hands to get warm.

The door in the office was open because he wanted to watch his clerk. He worked in a very small and cold room. He had a tiny7 fire —only one piece of coal8. But he couldn’t ask Scrooge for more. The clerk put on a white blanket and tried to get warm with the candle.

Then Scrooge’s nephew entered the office.

“Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” he said in a happy voice.

“Bah! Humbug9!” said Scrooge.

Outside was very cold, and the face of Scrooge’s nephew was all red. He was a handsome man.

“Come on, uncle, I know you don’t mean that!” said Scrooge’s nephew.

“Yes, I do. Why are you happy? You’re not rich, you’re poor.”

“And why are you unhappy? You’re rich!” replied the nephew.

Scrooge didn’t have a better answer and said:

“You celebrate Christmas if you want, but I never liked it.”