A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is abridged in 9 episodes and read by Alan Smith.
The audio for this series is available at any time. Simply click on the audio links page and you will be able to listen to the story for all 9 episodes and also read transcripts of each episode.
The language is faithful to the original, making this an ideal way to support study of an extended classic text at Years 5 and 6.
It is Christmas Eve and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits. If he heeds their lessons he may redeem himself...
Curriculum links
En1 Speaking and Listening; En2 Reading and equivalent levels in Scotland (Curriculum for Excellence). A Christmas Carol also matches a range of reading outlined in the NLS framework, including:
Year 4 Term 1 - historical stories and short novels
Year 5 Term 1 - novels by significant children's writers
Year 6 T erm 2 - longer established stories and novels selected from more than one genre
Listen to an extract from the series
