English Fairy Tales. A1

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Народное творчество. English Fairy Tales. A1

Before-reading questions:

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

The Story of the Three Bears

Molly Whuppie

The Fish and the Ring

The Old Woman and her Pig

Exercises

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

The Story of the Three Bears

Molly Whuppie

The Fish and the Ring

The Old Woman and her Pig

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What is your favourite fairy tale? Try telling it to your reflection in a mirror. What is the most important thing in telling a fairy tale?

What is the difference between a fairy tale written by a single person and a folk tale? What do they have in common?

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Well, Jack is not satisfied, and soon he decides to have another try at his luck up there at the top of the beanstalk. So one fine morning, he gets up early, and goes on to the beanstalk, and he climbs and he climbs and he climbs and he climbs till he gets to the top. But this time he doesn’t go straight to the ogre’s house. He waits behind a bush till he sees the ogre’s wife come out of the house to get some water, and then he creeps into the house and gets into the copper. He isn’t there long when he hears thump! thump! thump! as before, and the ogre and his wife come in.

“Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman,” cries out the ogre; “I smell him, wife, I smell him.”

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