Listen & Fill in the Gaps: The Night Before Christmas!

1 - Listen to the poem below without writing anything down. This will give you an idea of the content and you will become familiar with the reader’s voice and pronunciation. 

2 - Listen to the poem again and fill in the blanks as you listen.

3 - Listen again before checking your answers!

• 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the
• Not a creature was stirring, not even a ;
• The stockings all by the chimney with care,
• In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be ;
• The children were nestled all in their beds;
• While visions of sugar-plums danced in their ;
• And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my ,
• Had just settled down for a long winter's ,
• When out on the there arose such a clatter,
• I sprang from my bed to see what was the .
• Away to the I flew like a flash,
• Tore open the and threw up the sash.
• The on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
• Gave the lustre of midday to objects ,
• When what to my wondering did appear,
• But a miniature sleigh and tiny rein-deer,
• With a little old so lively and quick,
• I knew in a he must be St. Nick.
• More rapid than his coursers they came,
• As he whistled, and , and called them by name:
• "Now, Dasher! now, ! now Prancer and Vixen!
• On, Comet! on, ! on, Donner and Blitzen!
• To the top of the porch! to the top of the !
• Now dash away! dash away! dash away !"
• As dry before the wild hurricane fly,
• When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the ;
• So up to the the coursers they flew
• With the sleigh full of , and St. Nicholas too—
• And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the
• The prancing and pawing of each little .
• As I drew in my , and was turning around,
• Down the chimney St. Nicholas with a bound.
• He was dressed all in fur, from his to his foot,
• And his clothes were all tarnished with and soot;
• A of toys he had flung on his back,
• And he looked like a peddler just opening his .
• His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how !