Teenage

CHRISTMAS                                                                            A1 - A2





1. Read the text and decide which statements are TRUE and which are FALSE. Correct the false ones.
Once upon a time on Christmas Eve…

It 1)______ (be) a starry night on 25th December, Christmas Eve, last year. Peter and his little sister Betty 2)_______ (hang) their Christmas stockings over the fireplace in the living room for Santa Claus to put the presents. Then they 3)_______ (go) to bed. Soon they 4)______ (be) in their beds sleeping quietly.
At that very moment, Santa 5)_____ (be) in his sleigh riding very fast over the town. The sleigh 6)__________ (stop) on the roof of house number 53. It 7)________ (be) Peter and Betty’s house. Santa 8)_________ (climb) down the chimney. But oh no! He 9)_______ (get) stuck and 10)_________ (cannot) get out.
He 11)________ (make) so much noise that Peter and Betty 12)_________ (wake) up and 13)_______ (go) to the living room. There, they 14)_______ (see) Santa’s boots sticking out of the fireplace. They 15)________ (decide) to help him and 16)________ (start) to pull his boots. They 17)_______ (try) hard and finally they 18)________ (pull) Santa out. He 19)_________ (thank) them for their help and 20)_________ (give) them their presents. He 21)________ (give) Peter a remote controlled car and Betty – a dollhouse. They 22)_______ (be) very excited.
Then they 23)_________ (offer) Santa some Christmas pudding. He 24)_______ (like) it a lot. He also 25)_______ (like) their Christmas tree and decorations, especially the crackers and the angel on the top of the Christmas tree. When the time 26)_______ (come) for Santa to leave he 27)_________ (not leave) through the chimney, he 28)_________ (leave) through the front door. The children 29)________ (wave) him good-bye and 30)__________ (watch) his reindeer fly up into the sky.

TRUE or FALSE:

a) The story happened on 31st December. _________
b) The Christmas stockings were in the kids’ bedroom._________
c) When Santa’s sleigh stopped on the roof, the children were asleep. _________
d) Santa got stuck in the front door of the house._________
e) The children helped him. _________
f) He didn’t give any presents to the children._________
g) Santa ate some Christmas pudding. _________
h) He left through the chimney. _________

2. Open the brackets in ex.1 and write the correct form of the verbs in Past Simple.

3. Write full questions in the correct tense (Past Simple, Present Simple, be going to) in your notebooks. Then ask and answer them with a partner.


a) How / you and your family / celebrate Christmas and New Year last year?
b) What presents / you / get for last Christmas and New Year?
c) What / you / ask Santa Claus to give you as a present this year?
d) What / you / know about Santa Claus? Tell your partner.
e) What Christmas and/or New Year stories / you / know? Tell them to your partner.











INSPIRE YOUR HEART WITH ART DAY

1. Match the names of the genres of art on the left with their definitions on the right.
1 history painting         a) events from everyday life (markets,
                                                       domestic settings, interiors)
2 landscape                   b) a picture of animals
3 portrait                       c) a painting of a moment in history or a
                                          religious or mythological story
4 still life                      d) a picture of a person
5 scenes of
everyday
life
                                      e) a painting of usual objects (food,
                                          flowers, plants, drinking glasses,
                                          books, vases, jewelry, coins, etc.)
6 animal
painting
                                       f) a picture of natural scenery
                                          (mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, etc.)
2. Read the texts and answer the questions below.
a) What were da Vinci’s interests?
b) What’s so unusual about The Mona Lisa?
c) When did van Gogh start painting his famous
works?
d) What does he look like in his self-portrait?
e) Where did Olexandr Murashko study?
f) What is the girl in the painting wearing?


People in portraits
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci 

Leonardo da Vinci 1)______ (be) born in Italy. He 2)______ (be) interested in many subjects, for example, invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, literature, astronomy and many other things. His most famous painting is the Mona Lisa. You can find it in the Louvre museum, in Paris. The Mona Lisa has got long straight hair. She’s got brown eyes and her dress is brown, too. She 3)__________ (sit) in an open balcony. Behind her there is a beautiful landscape with trees, mountains and lakes. 4)_____ she ________ (smile) or not? It’s a very difficult question!

Self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh 5)_______ (be) born in the Netherlands. He 6)_______ (draw) as a child but 7)________ (not paint) until his late twenties. He 8)________ (paint) many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. He usually 9)_______ (draw) portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
This is a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. A self-portrait is a picture of the artist by the artist himself/herself. In this picture, Vincent van Gogh has got short, red hair. He’s got a red beard and a red moustache, too. His eyes are blue and he’s got a blue jacket and a white shirt. He 10)___________ (sit) in a room with blue walls. He 11)_____________ (not smile), he looks rather sad.

Peasant Family by Oleksandr Murashko

Oleksandr Murashko 12)________ (be) born in Kyiv. His stepfather 13)_________ (have) an icon-painting workshop and 14)_________ (work) on the interior of St Volodymyr's Cathedral. He 15)_________ (study) in St Petersburg where he 16)_________ (become) a student of the famous Russian painter, Ilya Repin. Oleksandr 17)________ (be) a patriotic Ukrainian, which we can see in many of his paintings. For example, in this group portrait called Peasant Family. A mother and a father 18)___________ (sit) in a traditional Ukrainian house and their daughter 19)___________ (stand) behind them. They 20)_____ all ________ (wear) traditional Ukrainian clothes. The girl has got dark hair and brown eyes. She has also got a traditional wreath over her head, a red bead necklace and a vyshyvanka. Her father is rather old. He’s got a beard. His hair is grey. Her mother is old too. She’s got a scarf over her head called ochipok. They all look very serious.

3. Put the verbs in brackets in the text in the correct form (Past Simple or Present Continuous).

4. Creative writing.
Describing a person
Draw a self-portrait or a portrait of someone in your
family.
Write about the person in the picture. Use the texts in
ex.2 as an example.
 Describe the appearance (He/She is tall/short/
young/etc. He/She has got long hair/a beard...)
 Describe the clothes (He/She is wearing a dress/
glasses/etc.)
 Say what the person is doing in the picture (He/She
is sitting on a chair/eating ice cream/etc.)


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