Punctaj total: 100 puncte. Nu se acordă puncte din oficiu. I. VOCABULARY (25p) Circle the correct answer: Example: The four ……………... of the year are: spring‚ summer‚ autumn and winter. a) days b) months c) seasons 2p 1. The day before Christmas is called Christmas ……………… . a) Eve b) Evening c) Saturday Look into the oven and see if the ………….is ready. a) cake b) soup The British currency is the………………….. . a) Euro b) British Dollar 2p 2. c) vegetables 2p 3. c) Pound 2p 4.
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A Christmas Carol’ Topic: ‘Charles Dickens presents a warning to society through his novella ‘A Christmas Carol’. Discuss. Fictional stories‚ although based upon make-believe tales‚ can often expose the truth behind an author’s personal views and ideals‚ as well as act as powerful tools to present social messages and warnings to readers across many generations. ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ is a novella in which social inequality is highlighted through the journey of a notorious
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Guilt and Pain Regret is like a crime: Once a mistake is made‚ there’s no going back. For Scrooge‚ he definitely can not change the way he has acted towards Fred‚ Belle‚ and the charity. In Charles Dickens‚ A Christmas Carol‚ Scrooge chooses a life full of greed‚ and is blindsided by the misery and sorrow it can lead to. Scrooge is remarkably remorseful when he relives his last conversation with his fiance. Once the spirit presents Belle breaking off the engagement‚ Scrooge asks: “‘Show me
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“The dominant theme in ‘A Christmas Carol’ is redemption.” –Do you agree? In Charles Dickens’ perennially popular novella‚ ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843)‚ we encounter a world where serious social problems lurk beneath an otherwise imaginative and engaging narrative. Through exploring a world of fiction and fantasy‚ the author does not shy away from depicting the importance of maintaining ones basic humanity in times filled with rampant industrialism and social injustice. In fact‚ through miserly
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Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Eating Christmas in the Kalahari is an interesting story of how ethnographer‚ Richard Borshay Lee‚ exploring the culture of the local !Kung Bushmen natives in the Kalahari Desert‚ experiences a cultural misinterpretation which caused him so much grief and concern‚ it almost led to him backing out of his lengthy three year study. Lee nearing the end of his study‚ decided to supply the meat for the Christmas feast as a parting gift. Bushmen take this meal extremely
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JohnLevis.com Advert analysis This one minute long advertisement focuses on people who are trying to find ideal gifts for the people they love and care about. John Lewis Christmas advert 2OO9 was focused on the joy of receiving gifts through the eyes of children‚ so this year they decided to try the opposite idea. Idea of this advert is to show the viewer how nice it is to give perfect gifts to the ones you care about‚ because the feeling you get when you give a gift to someone (and they like
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I had asked for under my Christmas tree. I tossed and turned all night. Sleep was impossible. I kept waiting for the sun to come up so that I could go in and wake my parents. At the first peak of a sun ray I ran into my parent’s room to wake them up and beg them to please get up so we could go and see what Santa left for us. When my brother and I were given the green light we stormed down the stairs to see what gifts and goodies awaited us on this wonderful Christmas morning. The anticipation
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The unforgettable Christmas The most wonderful time for me as a child was the winter. I will never forget when in late November I was waiting for the first snow. In the morning when I woke up‚ I looked out of window and saw snow-covered trees and buildings‚ I could not have been happier. Because snow from the point of view of a 6 year old child‚ meant really good fun. My friends and I made snowmen‚ went tobogganing‚ and pretended to be detectives tracing each other from our footsteps. There
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A Christmas Carol is a short story‚ not very long at all as I read it today and found some interesting differences between the book by Dickens and the movie incantations. Most of the movies I have seen pretty much have the same screenplay‚ it seems‚ with some small differences in most and some have a scene or two the others don’t. The first and most important difference is that all of the movies make it quite plain that Ebenezer’s father send him to boarding school away from him is because his
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originally a Christian belief. People need the idea of redemption to help change and become a better individual. They need to believe that they can still be saved no matter how horrible of a deed they have done. Scrooge is redeemed in Charles Dickenson’s Christmas Carol with the help of 3 spirits and a dead business partner. First Marley affected Scrooge greatly. He slowly scared him into believing that he was real. Marley came to scrooge in a frightening way by showing him his face as a door knocker
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