Task 1.

Before watching and dealing with vocabulary:

1. Which Christmas movies and cartoons do you know? Name as many

as you can. Which one did you like most of all and why?
2. What helps you to feel Christmas atmosphere? Do you decorate
your home? How?
3. You have 1 minute. Write down as many New Year and Christmas
words as you can.
Task 2. Look through words before
watching
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 Task 3. Watch from the beginning till 3:00
Look through the questions below, Remember all the details and answer
the questions:
1. What’s the name of the city?
a)who-city b)who-ville c) who-village
2. The citizens are called…
a) Whos b)wheres c)whens
3. Wreath man gave a little boy….
b) A wreath b)a cookie c)a Christmas tree
4. What did the tractor unload ?
c) A snowman b)snowballs c) a Christmas tree
5. The festive atmosphere is felt here during….
a) The whole month b) the whole year c)3 weeks
 Task 4. Watch from 3:00 till 39:00 and be ready to do the
tasks.
How to go about the task:
• Look through the words on the previous slides
• Look through the tasks on the next slides. Underline key words and
phrases you need to pay your attention to
• Watch the episode till 39:00 and make notes if necessary.
• Do the tasks and check yourself.
Task 5. Look at the pictures, describe what you see and
what situations they refer to:
 Task 6. True or false. And why? Prove your point of view

1. The Grinch lives in the cave alone.

2. The Grinch is used to drinking coffee every morning.
3. All whos love Christmas and decorate every house in the who-ville
4. The Grinch hates Christmas because of his unhappy childhood.
5. The Grinch decides to go to the city because he wants to see the decorations.
6. The Grinch decides to steal Christmas, dressing up as Santa Claus
7. Cindy-lou lives with her parents and two brothers.
8. Cindy wants to see Santa Claus because it’s her dream to see him in person.
9. Groopert is Cindy’s best friend and he offers Cindy to find Santa.
10. The Grinch asks his neighbour to give him a book about Santa to find out
everything about him.
 Task 7: Match the phrases to the heroes. Describe the situations where
they used them. Some of them can be used more than once

1) ‘This isn’t just a letter. This is the letter’

2) “Noone’s ever seen him. My bad’
3) ‘I’m sorry about making you uncomfy’
4) ‘I’m gonna stay up on Christmas Eve this year and meet
Santa Claus’
5) ‘I wish I could see the look on their faces’
6) ‘Wow! And I just asked him for a turtle'
Task 8. Circle the correct word:
1. This jam is for my Christmas stuffing/despise/eggnog.
2. I moan/despise/ridiculous all people who celebrate Christmas.
3. This is a list of all shortcut/hoax/my errands for today.
4. I can’t concrete/unclog/unload the drain.
5. The very first impression is usually despise/deceptive/stride.
6. We’re a bit late. Let’s hurry up and take a shortroad/shortcut/wreath.
7. She works as a nurse in hospital and usually has 6 night parts/errands/shifts a
month.
8. I didn’t expect to hold/unclog/bump into him yesterday, but I was really glad to
see him.
9. Please, don’t bump/fall upset/blame me for the things I didn’t do. It wasn’t me!
10. I was thinking over this problem during 2 hours and suddenly I came up
/moaned/fell upset with an interesting idea! And you know what? It really worked
out!
 Task 9. Answer the questions before the second part:

1. What is Grinch’s routine? Describe his lifestyle and his

typical day.
2. What is Who-ville like? Describe the city and people there.
3. Would you like to visit Who-ville one day? Why/ why not?
4. Why doesn’t Grinch like Chistmas? What does he usually
do during this day?
5. Which plan did Grinch come up with? Why?
6. Who is Cindy Lou? Where does she live and with whom?
7. Why does Cindy want to meet Santa Claus? Which idea did
she come up with?
 Task 10: Look through the next words and continue watching till
56:30

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Task 11. Fill in the gaps with prepositions. Then watch till 56:30 and
check yourself.

1. ‘When something matters ____you, that means it matters

___me’
2. ‘And now that is a great cup___coffee’
3. ‘Now ___you go, Max”
4. ‘Six houses on the Oak Street. Watch ___’
5. ‘Trying ____get myself tired’
6. ‘I just wanted to wish you good luck ____ Santa Claus
7. ‘How did I end up ____ such a wonderful daughter?’
 Task 12. And now connect these phrases to characters. Some of
them can be used more than once.

1. ‘When something matters __to__you, that means it matters __to_me’

2. ‘And now that is a great cup_of__coffee’
3. ‘Now _off__you go, Max”
4. ‘Six houses on the Oak Street. Watch _out__’
5. ‘Trying _to___get myself tired’
6. ‘I just wanted to wish you good luck __with__ Santa Claus
7. ‘How did I end up _with___ such a wonderful daughter?’

a) The Grinch
b) Ozzy
c) Cindy’s mom
d) Groopert
e) Cindy lou
And now watch till the end of the cartoon.
 Answer the questions:
1. What is the plan of the Grinch? What does he do? Who helps him?
How does it go?
2. What is the reaction of Cindy and the Grinch when they meet?
3. How does the Grinch feel after he comes back from his mission into
his cave ? Why?
4. What does the Grinch decide to do? Do whos forgive him or not?
5. Did you like the cartoon? Why? Why not?
6. Retell the cartoon to your friends or family in English. If you can’t do
it, record your speaking, then listen to it and try to correct your
mistakes if any.
 Keys:
Task 3: 1)b; 2)a; 3)a; 4)b; 5)c;
Task 6: 1)false; 2)true; 3) true; 4)true; 5)false; 6)true; 7) false; 8)false;
9)false; 10) false;
Task 7: 1)Cindy Lou; 2)Grinch; 3)the happiest who alive; 4) Cindy Lou;
5)Grinch; 6)Groopert
Task 8: 1)stuffing; 2)despise; 3)my errands; 4)unclog; 5)deceptive;
6)shortcut; 7)shift; 8)bump; 9)blame; 10)came up
Task 11: 1)to, to; 2)of; 3)off; 4) out; 5)to; 6)with; 7)with
Task 12: 1)Cindy Lou 2) the Grinch 3)the Grinch; 4) the Grinch; 5)Ozzy;
6)Groopert; 7)Cindy’s mom