STILLE NACHT, HEILIGE NACHT/MERRY CHRISTMAS/BUON NATALE

Mit diesem wunderschönen Weihnachtslied, das am  Heiligabend 1818 vom Dorfschuhllehrer und Organist Franz Xaver Gruber und dem Hilfspfarrer

Joseph Mohr in der Kirche St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf bei Salzburg erstmals aufgeführt wurde, wünsche ich allen meinen Lesern ein fröhliches Weihnachtsfest.

Stille Nacht (Silent Night) German – Sing Along, posted with vodpod

Wenn ihr hier http://www.lyricstraining.com/game4558.htm klickt, könnt ihr mit dem Weihnachtslied einen musikalischen Lückentest machen!

Solltet ihr ein Wort nicht verstehen, stopt die Musik. Das Wort wird wiederholt, wenn ihr auf die “RÜCKWÄRTSTASTE” klickt und sobald

ihr auf “TABULATOR” drückt, wird das gefragte Wort eingesetzt.

http://www.lyricstraining.com/search.php?my=1&status=any ist eine ganz tolle Webseite für diejenigen Leute, die mit Musik ihre Sprachkenntniss

verbessern möchten.

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN ENGLISH BY THE GOTTHARD WHOSE LEAD SINGER, STEVE LEE, WAS  KILLED  LAST FALL IN AN ACCIDENT IN CALIFORNIA

1st collector for MERRY CHRISTMAS
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GOTTHARD MERRY CHRISTMAS LYRICS

traduzione di certe espressioni o frasi  in italiano)

No One Here, No One There I See

(here=qui/there= lì)
Desolation Everywhere

Just Run Out Of Tears To Cry

(run out of=esaurito/tears=lacrime)

Its Getting Colder Every Day

(cold=freddo/colder=più freddo/coldest= il più freddo)

(In This God Forgotten World I Pray

(God forgotten=dimenticato da Dio/pray=pregare)

As I Look Up To The Sky

(Guardando su al cielo)

Is There Something I Can Do?

(C’è qualcosa che posso fare?)

To Give Back Hope To This Horizon

(Per dare indietro speranza a questo orizzonte)

Close My Eyes, As If It Would Stop The Rain

(Chiudere i miei occhi come se ciò fermasse la pioggia)

On Me. (Su di me)

I Can’t Get My Fears Away

(Non riesco ad liberarmi dalle mie angosce)

(With Those Words I Hear You Say

(Con quelle parole che sento da tè)

Wish You All A Merry Christmas

Wish You All A Great New Year

Hope You Save A Thought For Something

That Is True (Questo è vero)

I Wish A Merry Christmas To You!

(Ti faccio gli auguri di buon Natale!)

Greeting Cards, That You Read

(Cartoline che leggi)

You Got Everything You Really Need

(Tu hai tutto quello che ti occorre)

In Your World Of Red N’white

(Nel tuo mondo di rosso e bianco)

Flying High Right To The Sun
But The Sparkle In Your Eyes Has Gone

(Il scintillio nei tuoi occhi è svanito)

It’s So Easy To Forget (dimenticare è così facile)

Is There Something I Can Do? (Is
There Something I Can Do?)
I Don’t Wanna Weep In Silence ( I
Don’t Wanna Weep In Silence)

(weep=piangere)

There’s No Such Blindman

(blindman= ciecco)

When You Just Don’t Want To See

(Quando proprio non vuoi vedere)
But I Can’t Ease My Pain Today

(pain=dolore)

With The Words I Hear You Say

Wish You All A Merry Christmas
Wish You All A Great New Year
Hope You Save A Thought For Something

(thought=pensiero)

That Is True
I Wish A Merry Christmas To You!

Check out on http://www.lyricstraining.com/search.php?sort=dateand you can do many gap exercises with songs!

OR, DO THE MERRY CHRISTMAS GAP EXERCISE I’VE PREPARED ON LYRCISTRAINING:http://www.lyricstraining.com/game4653.htm

(Click on “TAB” if you want to have the missing word filled into the gap or click on “back space” so that you can relisten to the part of the song where a word is missing.)

FROHE WEIHNACHTEN

BUON NATALE

MERRY CHRISTMAS

A Christmas Carol/Charles Dickens

As Christmas is approaching some of my students want to tackle this beautiful story by Charles Dickens. The vocabulary is always very rich in his books, so I give you

some help/translation for the first pages of the book.

1.SUMMARY OF  A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS

2.Vocabulary list regarding the reading you can listen to.

3. Power Point presentation with questions regarding the story.

SUMMARY :Ebeneezer Scrooge’s partner Marley is as dead as a door nail, that’s for sure and Scrooge the old miser is in his counting-house

not wanting to have anything to do with Christmas. As usual his employee, Bob Cratchit,is very cold because his employer doesn’t want to spend money on coal.

His nephew, Fred, comes to pay his uncle a visit and to wish him merry Christmas and to invite him to his home for Christmas dinner.  In answer to this

Scrooge is morose  and only spits out angrily „Bah! Humbug! He behaves in the same way towards  two portly gentlemen who drop by to ask in order to ask

for some money or help for the poor.

In the evening  Scrooge takes his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern, reads his newspapers and then goes to his gloomy rooms and to bed.

When he puts his key in the knocker, this turns into Marley’s face. In the room there is a fire in the grate and spoon and basin are ready,

but he can’t see anybody. Everything is very strange when suddenly the bell begins to ring and Marley’s enchained ghost leaps up and tells

or warns Scrooge that he is  continuously forced  and punished to wander  around the world to share what he didn’t share with the others but

could have  shared. Scrooge is informed that he has one last chance to escape the same fate and that therefore three spirits will appear.

The first Ghost represents Christmas Past. The strange phantom looks like a child but also like an old man diminished to a child’s proportions. It takes

Scrooge back to the Christmases of his childhood school days, where he meets a lonely child, to  his days as an apprentice at the jolly and generous merchant Fezziwig and his engagement with Bell, who left him because he became to absorbed in money and unable to love. Scrooge is very touched by what he sees

and sheds tears of regrets.

Scrooge is lying in bed when the bells toll one. He is expecting the second Ghost of Christmas Present. He gets up softly and shuffles to the door

and the moment his hand is on the lock he hears a strange voice calling him by his name. He enters the room which has undergone complete

transformation and  is full of delicious food and green leaves.

The Ghost of the Present is clothed in one simple deep green robe, bordered with a white fur. Scrooge is being taken to the Cratchit family so he can see how it prepares a miniature feast in the simple house and he also discovers the crippled son, Tiny Tim. This boy is very courageous, kind  and humble and warms

Scrooge’s heart. and he wants to know whether the boy is going to live.

The Spirit then takes Scrooge also to his nephew’s family or their Christmas celebration which  includs singing and playing games such as blind-man’s buff.

He is so delighted by what he sees that he wants to stay until the end.  As the day passes the spirit is getting older and towards the end of the day he

shows Scrooge two starving children. The boy is Ignorance and the girl is Want!

The Ghost of Christmas yet to come takes Scrooge through a sequence of strange scenes concerning an unnamed man’s death. The latter sees a

businessman speaking about the riches of the death man and some vagabonds are selling his personal things. One couple even expresses happiness

about the man’s death because now they don’t have to pay back a debt. The Ghost takes him to the churchyard where he sees his own name on the

tombstone and is really shocked. He pleads with the Ghost to give him another chance and that he will change his stingy ways, his indifference towards

others and celebrate Christmas.

He then wakes up in his bed.

He looks out of the window and is informed that it is Christmas  and because this answer makes him so happy that he  asks a boy to go and buy the

biggest turkey available at the Poulterer’s. He sends it then to the Cratchit house and attends Fred’s Christmas celebration. Tiny Tim doesn’t die

and he treats him as if were his son, gives generous gifts to the poor and treats the other human beings with kindness and understanding.

DISCUSSION: Is money more important or human relationships?

Special Christmas song

With this song I wish you Merry Christmas, Buon Natale, Fröhliche Weihnachten.

Please daddy don’t get drunk this Christmas, I don’t want to see my mum cry!

Ti prego papà, non ti ubbriacare questo Natale, non voglio vedere piangere la mamma!

Ich bitte ich Papa, betrinke dich nicht diese Weihnachten, ich möchte meine Mama nicht weinen sehen!

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