‘A Christmas Carol’ part 3
DARTs answers
Subject: / English
Age groups: / 12-14, 15-16
Topic: / ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens

‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens: Part3

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
/ The Ghost of Christmas Present /
  • He was the second of the three spirits
  • He was a large man in a green coat
  • He only lives for one day

/ Mrs Cratchit /
  • She has made a tiny Christmas pudding
  • She is Bob Cratchit’s wife
  • She says Scrooge is mean and unfeeling

/ Tiny Tim /
  • He is ill
  • He says ‘God bless us every one’
  • He is going to die soon

/ Ignorance and Want /
  • They live under the spirit’s coat
  • They are two starving children
  • The Ghost warns Scrooge to be afraid of them

/ Fred’s family playing games /
  • Scrooge joins in with their games
  • They are a happy family
  • Fred feels sorry for Scrooge

Adjectives to describe size

Underline the adjectives that describe size in these sentences:

  1. He was a large man wearing a green coat with a fur collar.
  2. Scrooge had a huge Christmas dinner.
  3. Bob Cratchit has a large happy family.
  4. The Cratchits have a very small Christmas dinner because they are poor.
  5. Mrs Cratchit made a tiny Christmas pudding.

Big or small?

Put these adjectives in the table to show if they describe things that are big or small:

Adjectives to describe big things / Adjectives to describe small things
huge
large
enormous
big / tiny
small
little

Celebrating Christmas

Write some sentences to describe how the characters in ‘A Christmas Carol’ celebrate Christmas.

The Ghost of Christmas Present
Tiny Tim
Bob Cratchit
Fred and his family
The Cratchit family / decorate / a toast to Scrooge.
‘God bless us every one’.
games together.
a very small Christmas dinner.
Scrooge’s house.
decorates
drink
drinks
eat
eats
play
plays
say
says
  1. The Ghost of Christmas Present decorates Scrooge’s house.
  2. Tiny Tim says ‘God bless us every one.’
  3. Bob Cratchit drinks a toast to Scrooge.
  4. Fred and his family play games together.
  5. The Cratchit family eat a very small Christmas dinner.

Match the picture to the speech bubble

What does Scrooge learn?

Match the sentence halves:

People who are poor / thinking about other people.
Bob Cratchit says his wife should / a mean and unfeeling man.
People can have fun / can still enjoy Christmas.
Although he has more money his nephew / be kind at Christmas.
Mrs Cratchit thinks he is / Fred feels sorry for him.
Although Tiny Tim is ill, he is still / playing games together.

Image attributions

  1. Bob Cratchitt: By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  2. Fred: By Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  3. Fred’s family’s party: By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  4. Ghost of Xmas Present: By John Leech (1843) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
  5. Ignorance and Want: By John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864 in London) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
  6. Mrs Cratchit : By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons
  7. Tiny Tim By Frederick Simpson Coburn, Internet Archive Book Images [No restrictions], via Wikimedia Commons