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Surviving Christmas
Surviving Christmas
SURVIVING
CHRISTMAS
Expemo code:
167J-34LC-3LB4
1 Warm-up
2 Key words
3 Reading
You are going to read an article about how to survive Christmas. Match the headings to the paragraphs
in the article on the next page.
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
1.
Christmas. Eating, drinking, celebrating with family best advice is not to eat or drink too much. Alternate
and friends. Sounds great doesn’t it? But for many alcohol with soft drinks, and when eating just have a
people, there is a lot of pressure to make Christmas little of what you fancy.
entertaining, memorable, and above all, perfect. 4
2.
If you’re smart, you will have planned ahead to make 8.
Christmas is a time when many of us have a lot of late
life easier. You’ve bought presents throughout the nights and drink and eat too much. This can really
year, planned what to cook for dinner, and made sure affect our nocturnal cycles, so make sure you give
that all the family will sit next to someone that they yourself some time to recharge your batteries.
like at the dining table. 5
3.
But this is Christmas. There are some things you 9.
A brisk walk, a light jog or an early morning swim
can’t plan for. The dog might eat the turkey. There
will really help you feel human again after a night
might be a lot of snow and you can’t drive anywhere.
celebrating. You might also feel like you have cabin
You might accidentally set the Christmas tree on fire.
fever at this time of the year, so getting outside will
(Well...it could happen.)
also help to ease this tension.
4.
So, here are some tips to survive the festive season, 6
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
5 Collocations
Match the verbs on the left to the words on the right to form phrases from the text.
6 Talking point
1. Do you do any of these things to help you survive Christmas? Which ones?
2. Do you think Christmas is something you have to ‘survive’ or do you enjoy it?
3. Do you personally have any memorable Christmas stories, either good or bad?