English Reading Journal 3周婉婷

English Reading Journal 3 A Christmas Carol Author：Charles Dickens Retold by：Machael Dean Illustrator：Giles Waring Publishing company：Penguin Books Ltd Year of publishing：This edition first published 2000 Word Level：Level 2 ( Elemantary 600 words) Number of pages：36 pages Christmas Eve in this year, Scrooge, the man who doesn't like Christmas, had an amazing experience that changed his life. Scrooge is a cold and hard old man. He prefers money to people. Scrooge owned an office, which was run by him and his partner, Marley, who had been dead years ago. On Christmas Eve this year, Scrooge went home and went to bed early. Suddenly, a loud noise woke him up. A ghost was standing in front of him. Scrooge was surprised that it was Marley! Ghost Marley told Scrooge that he had a chain around him because he didn't help others before he died and that there were other three ghosts would come to Scrooge to tell something. The first ghost arrived Scrooge's room at one o'clock. He was the Ghost of Past Christmas. He took Scrooge back to Scrooge's memories. He showed Scrooge the happy time on Chrismas Day when Scrooge was a child and was a rookie in his job. Scrooge was moved. The second ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Now, arrived at the same time next night. The ghost took Scrooge to his office clerk's home and to the house of his nephew, Fred. In his office clerk's home, Scrooge saw that even though they were poor, they still had a very good time on Christmas Day. On the other hand, Fred was sorry about Scrooge's cold attitude towards people, but he still wished his uncle would have a nice day on Christmas. Scrooge learned a lesson that what he had done this year were wrong. He thanked the second ghost and expected the third one to teach him. The third ghost was the Ghost of Future Christmas. They came to a shop whose owner was dead. Nobody was sad to this money-loved man. The ghost finally took Scrooge to the grave of the dead man. He read the name on the grave. It was himself! Although Scrooge guessed this when he saw the shop, the grave still made him believe that as long as he changed his attitude, his future life would be different. When Scrooge got out of bed, he found it was the morning on Christmas Day. He went out his house and became kind to people. After that, Scrooge became a happy person, not a cold one. In this story, I really agree with the words Scrooge said finally, "Peple do things and then other things happen. But the same people can do different things and different things will happen in the future. We can change the future." Our future is controlled by ourselves, not others. As long as we have possitive and kind attitude towards everything, we will lead a satisfied and happy life. Therefore, I should do my best to do everything so that I won't regret when I am old. This time、I read the book 30 minutes a day. I also use the method professor told me. I read faster and more fluent than before. I think if I keep it, I will overcome my obstacle soon. 49777045 周婉婷