Ebenezer Scrooge wants nothing to do with Christmas. The old, mean and greedy man hates anything and everything that is related to Christmas: the food, the people, the singing and especially the charity. But on Christmas Eve Scrooge receives a visit from the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge is told that during the night three ghosts will come to visit him and that he will be forced to change his selfish ways. The reader contains • Author’s Life and Works • Adaptation of the text with notes • Wide variety of activities covering the four skills • Focuses on: Christmas Time in England and The Victorian Era • Creative Activities and On Line Projects • Trinity – style exercises (Grade 4) • Cambridge – style exercises for KET • Book on CD: Recordings of Text and Activities (Downloadable also in mp3 format from the website www.simonescuola.it)