Modern Fairy Tales

Practising the writing skills in a funny way

Lesson aims: to teach the students the basic rules of writing a fairy tale to show the students how a classical fairy tale can be “modernised” to make the students work in groups and co-operate in order to

produce a creative writing task to make the students discuss (agree, disagree, bring arguments) in

English to make the students work with dictionaries to make the students present their work in a meaningful way and

answer to questions related to their work

Activity no. 1

Aim: establishing the fix items of a fairy tale(beginning, ending,types of characters etc)

Procedure: Brainstorming and a

mind map on the blackboard

Interaction:Students-teacher

Timing: 10-15 minutes

Activity no. 2Aim:to make the students

identify the modern and the classical items in two modern versions of “Cinderella”

Procedure:Listening and identifying

elements

Interaction:Students-teacherStudents-students

Timing:15-25 minutes

Activity no. 3Aim:to make the students produce creative writing by working in

teams , discussing their ideasand using dictionaries

Procedure:Team workThe students will have dictionaries to work withThey will have to choose one of the stories: Little Red Riding

Hood, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty or another, but to “modernise” them

Interaction:Students-students

Timing: 20-30 minutes

Activity no. 4

Aim: to make the students present, discuss and evaluate their work

Procedure: a fairy tale contest(each team leader will present the modern fairy tale and will answer to questions about it;the class will vote the one they liked best

Interaction:Students-students

Timing:40-50 minutes