what a great christmas i had reading

My name is Laura, I am fifteen and I live in a flat on Central Park, New york.. As you can imagine New york is really gorgeous at Christmas with all the street lights, the giant tree at

Wow ! Got to go back to school… ! I had such great Christmas

holidays , two weeks but I am so tired still !! My name is Laura, I

am fifteen and I live in a flat on Central Park, New york As you

can imagine New york is really gorgeous at Christmas with all

the street lights, the giant tree at the Rockfeller center I went

ice skating there We did all our Christmas shopping just a few

days before the D- day , because Mum and Dad work a lot as lawyers But

anyway we invited my four grandparents , my uncle Steve, my aunt Stella, my

cousins Dave and Julia , so this made twelve people with my older brother

Brad.We ate a lot maybe too much but Mum is a real good cook when she takes the time and it was such great fun being all together ! After we gave each other presents, I got an Ipad and nice clothes , my brother got some money to help

him pay the trip to France he has planned for next summer As for New Year’s

Eve, we all went to different parties.Apart from this , we had some nice walks

together in Central Park, we visited the latest Monet exhibition at MOMA I

mustn’t forget that we gave a hand several times to the Salvation Army to give food to some of the homeless people living in the park, I know we are

priviledged Well I also went window shopping with my friend Leila, we listened

to some great new groups and watched a lot of DVDs,so we had a real great time.

1 answer the questions

1 What is the name of girl

speaking ? - 2 Where does she

live ? -3 What period is

she talking

about ? -4 What are her parents

jobs ? -5 How many people were

there ? -6 What presents did she

get ? -7 Where did she go ice

skating ? -8 Where did they go for

walks ? -9 Whose paintings did she

see at

MOMA ? -10 Which charity did she help and

how ? -

-2 underline all the verbs in the past and translate them in your own language

3 What about you, how did you spend your Christmas holidays ?

1 Did you stay at home ?Where did you

go ? - -2 What presents did you get for

Christmas? - -3 What did you give to

others ? -4 What are the

traditions in your family ? - -5 What else did you do during these

holidays? -

-4 Write about your holidays in