1. answer the questions. 1) why are people busy some weeks before christmas? 2) where can people get christmas cards? 3) where is a christmas tree from? 4) what are the traditional christmas dishes? 5) what is boxing day? 6) do english people like christmas? 2. complete the sentences 1. many children make their cards at ……. 2. father christmas puts the presents in the children's ……….. 3. there is a very big christmas tree in the centre of ……… 4. on christmas people wish their nearest and dearest a ………. 5. they do not………. on that day.

Meet my family. There are five of us – my parents, my elder brother, my baby sister and me. First, meet my mum and dad, Jane and Michael. My mum enjoys reading and my dad enjoys playing chess with my brother Ken. My mum is slim and rather tall. She has long red hair and big brown eyes. She has a very pleasant smile and a soft voice. My mother is very kind and understanding. We are real friends. She is a housewife. As she has three children, she is always busy around the house. She takes care of my baby sister Meg, who is only three months old.

Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.

And now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, our health-care workers, doctors, nurses, EMTs and support staff who risk becoming infected themselves — who risk infecting their own families — are making extraordinary sacrifices to care for the rest of us. They do so, most infuriatingly, even as they have been put at greater risk than necessary by the avoidable shortages of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment.