CHRISTMAS DAY MORNING- NOTES

                                  CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MORNING

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1.    To understand the importance of Christmas as an occasion to reaffirm love.

2.    To accumulate the values of sharing, kindness and caring.

I.                  Meanings refer to the text.

II. Read the extract carefully and answer the questions as follow;

1.     “Yet where was the magic of Christmas now?  “

a.    Why does author ask this question?

Ans: When Rob was young and his father was alive, Christmas was an occasion to reaffirm love and show kindness. As he grew old and was left alone with his wife; he missed the magic of Christmas. Therefore, the author asks this question as his children had grown up and left him.

2.     “ Jesus had been born in a barn”

a.    How did the idea of giving his father a special gift in the barn, strike Rob? What was his special gift?

Ans:  Rob’s father told about ‘Jesus’ birth. This struck Rob with the idea of giving his father a special gift in the barn.

                                The special gift was that he freed his father from milking on the Christmas Day.

3.”In just few minutes his father would know…”

a. what would his father know?

Ans: His father would come to know that Rob was done with milking , before the early hours of morning and he was freed from his job in that Christmas morning.

b.    Why did Rob think that he could have bought a better present for his father?

Ans:  Rob loved his father a lot and wanted to gift him something better. He also wanted to see the joy and happiness on his father’s face.

4.” He laughed to himself as he gazed at the stars”…

a. Why was milking not a chore for Rob on the Christmas day?

Ans; Milking was not chore because Rob wanted to present a special gift to his father. It did not seen to be a usual chore but something special he was doing for his father.

5. “But he was not satisfied”

a. Rob was not satisfied because he wanted to tell his wife that he loved her in a special way much more than he ever loved when they were young.

6. “He realized that he could give the gift again”

a. what was the gift?

Ans: The gift refers to the ’gift of love’ .As ‘love’ knows no bounds; one can gift the same again and again.

b. How can one give same gift again and again?

Ans: Every time when one reaffirms the pledge of love, through words and deeds, the same ‘gift of love’ is presented again again.