jueves, 2 de diciembre de 2010

CHRISTMAS WORK

Hi guys, I´m copying here the work you are going to do for Christmas.  It is going to be on Monday 13th but for this Tuesday I want you to show me the selection of words.

It is going to be a short story about Xmas. You are going to divide the work:
Team No. 1. is going to be in charge of selecting unknown words and make a Glossary (as a vocabulary, with the unknown words and the equivalence).
Team No. 2  is going to be in charge of choosing the pictures or doing the drawing of the story.
Team No. 3. is going to collect the money to buy the paper, masking tape for the work.
Team No. 4. is going to arrange and place the work on the wall.
Team No. 5. is going to make some questions about the story.
Team No. 6. is going to answer those questions.

Here it is the short story, the site is:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/goldwrappingpaper


THE GOLD WRAPPING PAPER - An Inspiring Christmas Story
Once upon a time, a man punished his five-year-old daughter for using up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper before Christmas.

Money was tight, so he became even more upset when on Christmas Eve, he saw that the child had used the expensive gold paper to decorate a large shoebox she had put under the Christmas tree.

Nevertheless, the next morning the little girl, filled with excitement, brought the gift box to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy!"

As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction, now regretting how he had punished her.

But when he opened the shoebox, he found it was empty and again his anger flared. "Don't you know, young lady,” he said harshly, “when you give someone a present there's supposed to be something inside the package!"

The little girl looked up at him with sad tears rolling from her eyes and whispered: "Daddy, it's not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full."

The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept this little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open the box, take out an imaginary kiss, and remember the love of this beautiful child who had put it there.


In a very real sense, each of us as human beings have been given an invisible golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children, family, friends and God.

There is no more precious possession anyone could hold.