‘A Christmas Carol’ part 2
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Subject: / English
Age groups: / 12-14, 15-16
Topic: / ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens

‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens: Part2

Fill in the table, adding atitle for each picture, and some more information about it. You can use the information below and add more if you can.

Title / More information

Find the verbs

Underline the verbs in these sentences:

  1. Scrooge wakes up at midnight and thinks about Marley’s ghost.
  2. It is the ghost of an old man with a face like a child.
  3. Scrooge is sitting alone in the old school.
  4. Belle is married to another man and has a lot of children.
  5. Scrooge asks the spirit to take him home and he goes back to bed.

Change the tense

Re-write the sentences in the last exercise in the past tense. You can use the past tense verbs in the box to help you. You will need to use some of them more than once.

  1. Scrooge ______
  2. It______
  3. Scrooge ______
  4. Belle ______
  5. Scrooge ______

Comparing past and present

Complete the sentences below using the verbs in the box. You will need to work out which tense to use.

  1. When Scrooge ______a boy he ______in the countryside, but now he ______in a town.
  2. When Belle ______a young woman she ______engaged to Scrooge, but now she ______married to another man and ______lots of children.
  3. When Scrooge ______an apprentice he ______for Mr Fezziwig. Now Bob Cratchit ______for Scrooge.
  4. Fan ______Fred’s mother but now she ______died.
  5. Scrooge ______lonely when he ______a boy, and now he ______an adult he ______still lonely.

What did Scrooge learn?

Write some sentences to describe what Scrooge learnt from his journey into the past with the Ghost:

When Scrooge saw / himself as a boy / he / realised
remembered
understood
wished / that / he had given money to the boy singing carols earlier.
Fan / he is a lonely old man.
Belle / he had loved his sister.
himself as an apprentice / Fezziwig had used his money well to make people happy.

Match the picture to the speech bubble

Happy or sad?

Draw a happy or sad face to show whether you think Scrooge was happy or sad at this time:

 or 
When Scrooge and Fan were young children
When Scrooge was an apprentice working for Mr Fezziwig
When Scrooge was engaged to Belle
When Belle decided not to marry Scrooge
When Fan died

Do you think Scrooge will be happy or sad at the end of the book?

At the end of the story I think Scrooge will be ______

Image attributions

  1. Ghost of Xmas Past: by Leroy Skalstad, CCO via Pixabay, no attribution required
  2. Mr Fezziwig: : By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  3. Scrooge: By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  4. Scrooge as a boy: By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  5. Fan: By WilloHausman via Flikr, CCO, permission to re-use
  6. Scrooge as a young man with Belle: : By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons