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Did you like listening to stories when you were a child?
What was your favourite story?
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What are ‘fairy tales’?- A fairy tale is a story with imagined
characters and usually with supernatural beings like fairies (vile), dragons…
Unit 3: ‘Telling Tales’Some of the most popular fairy tales are:- Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (Snežana i
sedam patuljaka)- Cinderella (Pepeljuga)- Little Red Riding Hood (Crvenkapa)- Aladdin’s Lamp (Aladinova lampa)- Sleeping beauty (Uspavana ljepotica)- Beauty and the Beast (Ljepotica i zvijer)- Hansel and Gretel (Ivica i Marica)- Little Marmaid (Mala Sirena)- Goldilocks (Zlatokosa)...
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Tales or Folk tales are stories with imagined character but real
situations. Each nation has its own traditional folk tales.
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Fables are stories in which animals play the main roles and possess the characteristics of humans, showing their good and bad sides. The most popular fable writers were Aesop, La Fontenne and Dositej Obradovic.
The most popular fables are: ‘Raven and Fox’, ‘Goat and Grapes’, ‘Raven and Cheese’...
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The story of Gluskap is a native American folk tale. The story comes from the tribe of the Algonquians, the tribe in which people speak about 30 different languages. They live in the area of Quebec and Ontario. The American Indians don’t have the written document in their language and it was passed on from one generation to another aurally.
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Can you describe Gluskap?- He is big, strong and fast
Can you describe the baby?- It is small, weak and loud.
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This story happened a long time ago and it uses past tenses. Do you know which tenses tell us about past events?
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The Past Simple Tense
The Past Continuous Tense
The Past Perfect Tense
Do you know anything about these tenses?
The Past Simple TenseThe Past Simple Tense
PastPast PresentPresent FutureFuture
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- The action started in the past- We know exactly when the action
happened- The action finished in the past- There are no consequences in the
present- It also describes past habits
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Positive form:S + V-ed/II col.
Interrogative form:Did + S + Vinf (-ed se gubi, II - I col)
Negative form:S + DIDN’T + Vinf
Positive form: S + was/were + V-ing
Interrogative form: Was/were + S + V-ing
Negative form: S + was/were + not + V-ing
Unit 3: ‘Telling Tales’- The action started in the past- The action lasted for a certain period of
time- The action finished in the pasta) It also describes two PARALLEL actions
in the past. The connector is while:• Paul was sleeping while Mary was reading
a book last night.b) It describes an INTERRUPTED action. The
connector is when:* I was sleeping when the telephone rang.
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The action happened in the past BEFORE another past action
The connectors are BEFORE, WHEN, AFTER
Unit 3: ‘Telling Tales’ Positive form: S + had + Past Participle (V-ed/IIIcol.)
Interrogative form: Had + S + P.P.
Negative form: S + HADN’T + P.P.
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1. When Carol arrived home, Mark cooked dinner.
Kada je Kerol stigla kući, Mark je SKUVAO večeru
(ove radnje su se odigrale jedna za drugom)
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2. When Carol arrived home, Mark was cooking dinner.
Kada je Kerol stigla kući, Mark JE KUVAO večeru. (Zatekla ga je usred spremanja)
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3. When Carol arrived home, Mark had cooked dinner.
Kada je Kerol stigla kući, Mark JE BIO SKUVAO VEČERU. (Večera je bila spremljena prije nego što je ona stigla, prošlo je izvjesno vrijeme)
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Read the text again and find all the verbs in the text. Identify the tense and say whether the verb is regular or irregular
Unit 3: ‘Telling Tales’Nastavak –ED može se izgovoriti na tri načina u
engleskom jeziku: kao /t/, /d/ ili /id/Kao /t/ se izgovara iza BEZVUČNIH SUGLASNIKA
osim ‘t’:Stop-stopped;Ask – asked;Push – pushed;Reach – reached;Pass – PassedPuff – puffedBath - bathed
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Kao /d/ se izgovara poslije ZVUČNIH SUGLASNIKA osim /d/ i SAMOGLASNIKA
• Call – called• Play – played• Cry - cried
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Kao /id/ se izgovara posle /t/ i /d/:Invite – invitedShout – shoutedVisit – visitedDecide – decidedTrade – tradedFade - faded
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/t/ /d/ /id/-Stopped- looked -Danced
-Covered -Listened -Opened -screamed
-Wanted-Shouted-Boasted -Pointed
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