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# Christmas shopping
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Watch this video to see how a shop is getting ready for Christmas.
[https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/uk-now/video-uk/christmas-shopping](https://)

# Task 1
Read the questions and choose the correct answers.

1. What kind of things do Fortnum & Mason (the shop in the video) sell?
- [ ] discount goods
- [ ] luxury goods
- [ ] electrical goods 

2. What’s the theme of this year’s Christmas window displays in Fortnum & Mason?
- [ ] trees and nature
- [ ] food and drink
- [ ] dancing and shows

3. How does Paul Symes, the designer of the window displays, feel just before the displays are revealed?
- [ ] very proud
- [ ] very excited
- [ ] very nervous

4. When did Christmas shopping become such an important tradition in Britain?
- [ ] two thousand years ago
- [ ] in the Victorian era
- [ ] within the last twenty years

# Task 2
Complete the sentences.

| Christmas lights | Christmas story | Christmas shopping |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| Christmas traditions     | Christmas list     | Christmas dinner     |

1. At Christmas, children make a ______________. It contains all the presents they would like to get from Father Christmas.
2. It’s a good idea to get your ______________ done early, because the shops get very busy just before Christmas
3. It’s a beautiful sight to see colourful ______________ twinkling at night in streets, shops and homes.
4. The ______________ is about the birth of Jesus
5. It’s traditional to have a big ______________ of roast turkey
6. 6. There are many ______________ in Britain, such as eating mince pies, pulling Christmas crackers and hanging mistletoe over a doorway.

Leave your answers in the comments section
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