Read the extract carefully, then answer the questions.
‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens tells the story of mean and lonely Mr Scrooge, who, on
Christmas Eve, meets the ghosts of the past, present and future, who frighten him into changing
his ways.
Once upon a time – of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve – old Scrooge sat busy
in his counting house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the
people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts,
