READING 5

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is only a few days away and the two children in the Robinson family feel very excited and are impatient for it. Their mother has baked them a very large and delicious Christmas cake. She has shown them how to make colorful ornaments for their Christmas tree. Tomorrow she will take them out shopping in the High Street as she is planning to purchase new clothes for them to wear on Christmas Day. Mr. Robinson gave Tommy and Irena some money last week so that they could buy themselves lots of balloons and streamers to decorate their house

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VOCABULARY

DEFINITIONS

To be impatient for: To long for, to look forward to

To bake: To cook in the oven

Ornament: Decoration

To purchase: To buy

Streamer: Flag, ribbon

To decorate: To ornament

EXERCISES

Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined above

1.  We _____________ the living room with _____________ for Christmas.

2.  My wife _____________ delicious pastries every weekend.

3.  The company _____________ new computers to speed up the work in the offices last week.

4.  It has been two years since he graduated and he is _____________ a job.

5.  The children are _____________ the day when they will go to the playground.

READING COMPREHENSION

1.  We understand from the passage that

A.  Christmas doesn't mean much to the children

B.  the family is not happy with Christmas

C.  children are looking forward to Christmas

D.  they always do the same arrangements for the New Year

E.  the Robinsons will not celebrate the New Year

2.  Children learnt how to.

A.  do shopping

B.  make decorations

C.  buy new clothes

D.  make a cake

E.  excite their mother and father

3.  It is obvious in the passage that.

A.  she hasn't bought clothes for the children yet

B.  the shopping for the Christmas has finished

C.  the following day is the New Year

D.  children spent all their money on cake

E.  Mr. Robinson will give them some more money

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