FAIRY TALESCross curricular and

Cross cultural projects

Survey 

1. What is your present job?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. How long is your work experience?

0 – 5 years6 – 10 years11 – 15 years16 – 20 yearsMore than 20 years

 3. What is your education? (Degree)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 

4. What age groups are you teaching?School stage I (Grades 1-3)School stage II (Grades 4-6)School stage III (Grades 7-9)Secondary school (Grades 10-12)

 5. Do you use fairy tales in your English lessons?

NeverRarelySometimesOftenAlways

 6. Why do you use fairy tales in English lesson?

To develop Ss’s reading skillsTo develop Ss’s speaking skillsTo teach valuesTo find some new exciting themesTo develop Ss’s vocabularyOther__________________________________________________

7. Where do you find fairy tales, exercises connected with fairy tales?

In textbooksIn workbooksIn literature booksOn the InternetIn some course materials

 8. What kind of skills fairy tales help to develop?

ReadingSpeaking (dialogues, roll plays, etc)ListeningWriting

 9. It takes a lot of time to find fairy tales and exercises

connected to the fairy tales

Strongly agreeAgreeI am not sureDisagreeStrongly disagree

10. Fairy tales teach values and moralsStrongly agreeAgreeI am not sureDisagreeStrongly disagree

 11. Fairy tales make English lesson more

interesting and motivate students to learnStrongly agreeAgreeI am not sureDisagreeStrongly disagree

 12. Do you need readymade worksheets on fairy tales?

Strongly agreeAgreeI am not sureDisagreeStrongly disagree

INTRODUCTION TO FAIRY TALES

- Source for teaching Languages .

- Old wisdom and knowledge of humankind.

- Teach moral and values (universal norms for life).

- Find fairy tales (FTs) and look for Language materials which are connected the topic.

- Folk features: fairies, goblins, princes and princesses.

- Sub-class of the folk tale.

- A story for children: fantastic forces and beings

- Happy ending.

CONCEPT OF FAIRY TALES

HISTORY OF FAIRY TALES

- Oral tradition.- Sad endings .d

- Started to write them down.- d

- FTs were for adults and children.

- d

- Later they were about princes and princesses, combats.

- d

- Common features: Happy endings and moral lessons.

- “Once a upon a time….”, “In a far-far away land…”, “They lived happily ever after”, etc.

- Places: castles, far-far away lands, etc.

- Characters: princes and princesses, poor farmers,etc.

- Good and bad characters.

- A moral lesson to be learnt.

CHARACTERISTICS OF FAIRY TALES

- FT spark children’s curiosity and elicit a powerful emotional response.

- Students (Ss) prefer stories about animals and legends.

- As children read them they act out as the caracters.

- Influence positively on children’s interest in books.

FAIRY TALES MOTIVATE READING

Once upon a time, there was a huge house

in a very far away land. The house was very

old and nobody lived there. There were just

a lot of cobwebs and there were sometimes

two or three clothes moths. The house was

in the mountain near a bewitched and

dangerous forest .

Very very far away there was a very pretty princess that was called Penelope. She was really beautiful and had a gold-colored hair like the sun. One day, a wicked witch that was called Betty who lived hidden in the forest locked the princess in a house on a mountain, because the witch was jealous from her beauty.

Betty was very ugly. She had spots, green skin and had only two teeth. She was a very sad witch. That’s why, she hated Penelope. But Betty had a friend…. her cat.

The cat was called “boots” and it was nice, although it was a horrible witch’s pet. Its best friend was called “buttons”, it was Penelope’s cat.

One day “boots” saw the princess at home. She cried and cried; “boots” got very sad and also cried. So it decided to take action!

The cat prepared Betty’s favorite drink– a cup of tea. But this time, “boots” sang a magic song while it was making the tea.

As always, Betty drank the tea and then she went to bed.

In the morning, Betty woke up and….oh! surprise! She had curly silky hair. She was as beautiful as a queen. She had all her teeth and didn’t have spots nor green skin. She looked very pretty.

With the magic song of “boots”, Betty became really beautiful. She went to Penelope’s cell and said:“Forgive me Penelope. I was very jealous. I’m so sorry”.“Don’t worry”, Penelope said. “I understand”.Then Betty and Penelope became the best friends ever and lived happily ever after. “boots” was also very happy!s

THE END

The Scene Setting

1There was a very pretty princess that was called Penelope. She was beautiful, with the gold-colored 2________ like the 3_______. One day, a wicked 4 ________ that was called Betty who lived hidden in the forest locked the princess in a 5________ , because the witch was jealous from her beauty. The 6_______ Pablo was the only one who was able to save Penelope! He had to look for the 7________ to open the 8_______ of each floor. But the princess was in the sixth floor!!

stairs – There was– door– magician– spanish– witch – eyes– castle – prince – sun – hair- key

My name is Miss Whitehouse and I am eternally 21 years old. I have long, straight brown hair and blue eyes and I am quite short. I love playing the violin, running, cycling and travelling as well as writing books, of course! I have an older sister called Sarah and a pet cat called Polly. She is grey and very hairy. I hope you enjoy the book!

SHOW KATHERINE’S VIDEOS

- Pre-reading activities to set up a topic.

d

- Activate Ss’s background knowledge of the topic.

d- Provide any vocabulary.d- Do some exercises for checking

general comprehension.d- Ss provide afffective response

to the content of the text.

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING ENGLISH A S LANGUAGE

skills

- FTs are good provider of topics for discussion.

- Teachers can prepare a questionnaire.

- Ss. discuss answers and tell their ideas to the class.

- Ss. could dramatize an interview between characters of the text.

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING ENGLISH A S LANGUAGE

skills

- Ss may write their onw FT with an alternative ending.

- Teachers could write on the board:

“What if…………”

- Ss may write a modernized version of a well known FT.

- Example: A New Cinderella Story!

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING ENGLISH A S LANGUAGE

skills

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING ENGLISH A S LANGUAGE

skills- FT will interest Ss and bring

them into a natural rhythm language of the text.

- Two uses of language:

Narrative

A dialogue

- Metaphors, alliteration and rhymes.

- Once upon a time, far-far away, they lived happily ever after….

- Fairy, witch, king, queen, prince, princess, magic stick, etc.

- Forest, kingdom, far-far away land, etc.

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY

- Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.

- Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.

- Carrie's cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.

- Dan’s dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove.

ALLITERATIONS

- Teach Ss about own culture and traditions.

- FTs teach children social values, virtues and determination.

- Characters in FTs are either good or bad.

- Trust, hope, honesty, kindness, good deeds, etc.

FAIRY TALES IN TEACHING VALUES

Fairy Tales

Brief: The aims of the next five weeks is:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In your story you will include the following elements:

Task Completed? (Tick off when done )

A cover page, with the title (in English) 

 

A front inside cover with notes about the author and a picture of yourself, in ENGLISH.

 

A brief setting of the scene (in either past or present tenses) 

 

A description of your characters 

 

A short story – what happened? 

 

A happy ending 

 

Optional: some puzzles at the end based on your story 

 

Fairy Tales

Brief: The aims of the next five weeks is:

To understand key vocabulary from fairy tales.

To learn about a range of past tenses.

To create and illustrate a short, simple story for English children, using this new language.

To cross a new culture in order to meet new friends and traditions.

AND FINALLY

THIS STORY IS

OVER!