The Weekend - Christmas Chronicles II (C0022)
A: Really, gentlemen, you can’t take me to jail! Don’t
you know who I am? Kris Kringle, you know, Papa
Noel, Pere Noel, Babbo Natale, sheng dan lao
ren!
B: Yeah, Yeah, we’ve heard that one before, haven’t
we Joe?
C: Yeah, last week we booked this guy who claimed
to be the tooth fairy! Can you believe that?
A: It’s Christmas Eve and I have all these presents to
deliver! Where is your Christmas spirit? What will
happen when all the children wake up tomorrow
and don’t find any gifts in their stockings?
B: Sorry buddy, you were parked in a no-parking
zone, you were speeding, and you have no ID!
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C: Besides that, even if we let you go now, your
sleigh has been impounded and those reindeer
were taken to the city zoo.
A: What! This is unbelievable! What’s this world
coming to? Christmas is ruined!
C: What’s that up ahead? It looks like... elves!!
Elves!! Whoa, they’re shooting candy canes!
Mayday, Mayday, we are under heavy attack! We
need backup!
Key Vocabulary
take someone
to jail
phrase take someone who is ar-
rested to a place where
other criminals are kept
book verb arrest (informal)
claim verb say something is true
when some people say it
may not be true
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stocking common
noun, sin-
gular
large sock; tradition-
ally, Christmas gifts
are put inside on the
Christmas Eve
speed verb drive faster than legal
speed limit
impound verb held by the police
ruined Adjective damaged or destroyed
reindeer common
noun, non-
variable
large deer that lives in
the north part of the
globe
elf common
noun, sin-
gular
small creature (in sto-
ries) that have pointed
ears and magic powers
candy cane common
noun, plu-
ral
a stick-shaped candy
with red and white
curves on the top
under heavy phrase being attacked or hurt
backup common
noun, non-
variable
help
Supplementary Vocabulary
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charge verb formally accuse some-
one of a crime
pull someone
over
phrase make a moving car
move to the side of the
road
ambush common
noun, sin-
gular
a sudden attack
stocking
stuffer
common
noun, sin-
gular
small gifts that are put
in the Christmas stock-
ing
Christmas or-
nament
common
noun, sin-
gular
decoration that is used
to make the Christmas
tree beautiful
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