Ask pupils to find the common themes of them all. Consider why the Ghost of Christmas Present wants Scrooge to see the happy scenes within hardship. Look for links in song and singing and discuss ...

the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present ...

it was Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol –published exactly 175 years ago – that really popularised it. By the same token, ‘Bah! Humbug!’ entered popular usage, and everyone knows what it means to ...

How is Scrooge like this? Scrooge is stingy with his money and will not even allow his clerk Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve. Evidence...as the clerk came in with ...

It is quite a cheering thought for Christmas. So, like Ebenezer Scrooge cast away the ‘Bah Humbug! And be happy this season.

Today, Scrooge’s name has become synonymous with the sort of vengeful and destructive greed that is practiced by our grasping billionaire class. No serious reader of A Christmas Carol could ...

Jim Carrey played seven roles in this Disney flick, including Scrooge at four stages of life and all three Christmas ghosts!

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate ...