КіноКава: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Discussion: EPISODE 1: 00:59 – 07:00

1. Put the lines into correct order:
(.....) Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot
(.....) The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
(.....) Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
(.....) But the Grinch who lived just North of Whoville did not!
(.....) It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
(.....) May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
(.....) But I think that the most likely reason of all
(.....) It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
(.....) But, whatever the reason, his heart or his shoes,
(.....) Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown
(.....) At the warm lighted windows below in their town,
(.....) He stood there on Christmas Eve hating the Whos,
(.....) Was busy now hanging a hollywho wreath.
(.....) For he knew every Who down in Whoville beneath

Questions to the episode:

1. Is the Grinch good or bad?
2. Why does he hate Christmas?
3. What will the Grinch decide to do?

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Discussion:

1. Who brings children presents in our country? How is he called in other cultures?
2. Did the person really exist in past times or was he completely made up?
3. How does he arrive with the presents for the children, according to your culture?
4. How does he deliver presents to the children, according to your culture?
5. Where does he live for the rest of the year, according to your culture?
6. Does everybody get a present or only those who have "been good"?
7. How old were you when you found out that St Nickolas does not exist?
8. How did you find out? Were you disappointed or sad? Why/Why not?

EPISODE 2: 07:41 – 12:03
1. Put the actions into correct order.

1. The Grinch got an awful idea.
2. The Grinch is loading empty sacks on a sledge.
3. The Grinch cuts out clothes from red cloth.
4. Whey are approaching Whoville.
5. The Grinch sews clothes with a help of sewing machine.
6. The Grinch is looking in the mirror.
7. The dog hides under a bed.
8. The Grinch is trying on new clothes on his dog.
9. The Grinch bites his dog with a whip.
10. The Grinch pulls the dog for its tail.

Questions to the episode:

1. Why does the Grinch dress like Santa Clause?
2. What does he want to do?
3. Will he manage to spoil the holiday?

Discussion: EPISODE 3: 12:33 – 15:34

What do the words in bold mean?

1. "This is stop number one," the old Grinchy Claus hissed, As he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.
2. Pop guns, pampoogas, pantookas, and drums! Checkerboards, bizilbigs, popcorn, and plums!
3. Then he slunk to the icebox. He took the Whos' feast! He took the Who pudding! He took the roast beast!
4. He cleaned out that icebox as quick as a flash. Why, that Grinch even took the last can of Who hash!

Questions to the episodes:

1. Will Christmas be spoiled?
2. What is the main attribute of Christmas to your mind? Is it candies, Christmas tree or something different?

EPISODE 4: 20:19 – 24:50

1. Fill in the gaps with the words from above.

ribbons ◦ coming ◦ packages ◦ stood ◦ before ◦ perhaps ◦ grew ◦ store ◦ strength

He hadn't stopped Christmas from ________! It came! Somehow or other, it came just the same! And the Grinch, with his grinch feet ice-cold in the snow, ________ puzzling and puzzling. "How could it be so? It came without ________! It came without tags! It came without ________, boxes, or bags!" He puzzled and puzzed till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't ________.

Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a ________. Maybe Christmas, ________, means a little bit more! And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say That the Grinch's small heart ________ three sizes that day! And then the true meaning of Christmas came through, And the Grinch found the ________ of ten Grinches, plus two!

2. Listen to the carol and fill in the gaps. Then sing the carol with your colleagues.

We ________ you a Merry Christmas;  We wish ________ a Merry Christmas;  We wish you a ________ Christmas and a Happy New Year.  Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;  We wish you a Merry ________ and a Happy New Year.  Oh, ________ us a figgy pudding;  Oh, bring us a ________ pudding;  Oh, bring us a figgy ________ and bring it right here! Good tidings we bring to you and your kin;  We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  We won't go until we get ________;  We won't go until we ________ some;  We ________ go until we get some, so bring it right here!

Good tidings we bring to you and your ________;  We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  We all like our figgy ________, We all like our ________ pudding, We all ________ our figgy pudding, With all its good cheer! Good ________ we bring to you and your kin;  We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  We wish you a Merry Christmas;  We wish you a Merry Christmas;  We wish you a ________ Christmas and a ________ New Year.