Сыныптан тыс сабақ "Fairy tales"

Fairy tales; not just for kids

Teacher’s notes

Topic:

Fairy tales and stories

Aims:

-To help students talk about stories

-To expand students’ vocabulary

-To develop students’ writing skills

Level:

intermediate B2

Introduction

What do you remember about S

now White or The Three Little Pigs? In this

lesson, students talk about well

-

known stories. They revise story telling

vocabulary and then plan and write a fairy tale.

Procedure

Lead in: Fairy tales

•

Hand out the list of fairy tales to students or write

the list on the board.

Ask students which ones they know, what the fairy tales are called in the

students’ languages and who are the main characters in each story. Can

they add more fairy tales to the list?

Fairy tales

Jack and the Beanstalk

Little Re

d Riding Hood

Snow White

Hansel and Gretel

Beauty and the Beast

Rapunzel

Cinderella

The Three Little Pigs

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Task 1: Fairy tale quiz

•

Hand out task 1. Ask students to do the quiz in small g

roups. Then

correct as a class.

Answers task 1

: 1B (from ‘The 3 little pigs’), 2B, 3B, 4A, 5C, 6C

Teaching

English

| Lesson

plans

Task 1: Fairy tale quiz

Choose the correct answers with a partner.

1Who says ‘I’ll huff and I’ll puf

f and I’ll blow your house down

’?

A) a giant B) a wo

lf c) a witch

2

)

Snow White eats a poisioned:

A) apple B) orange C) banan

a

3) Hansel and Gretel find a house made of:

A) gold B) sweets C) straw

4) Cinderella wears shoes made of:

A) glass B) gold C silk

5) Rapunzel has very long:

A) nails B) e

yelashes C) hair

6) How many bears did Goldilocks meet?

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3

Task 2: Fairy tale frame

work.

Ask students if they know how fairy tales usually start (Once upon a

time...) and finish (And they all lived happily ever after.)

Hand out task 2. A

stronger class could complete the framework in pairs.

With a weaker group you could do this as a whole class activity.

Task 2: Fairy tale framework.

Com

plete the details of this well

-known fairy tale.

The start:

Once upon a 1________....

Location:

In

the woods

Character 1:

A girl called Little 2________ Riding Hood. She wears a 3________ coat. She

is kind and brave.

Character 2:

A wolf. He has big 4________. He is wicked.

Basic situation:

A girl goes to visit her 5________. She finds a 6________ in

her 7________’s

bed.

Teaching

English

| Lesson

plans

Outcome:

A woodcutter kills the 8________.

The end:

They all lived 9________ ever after.

Answers task 3: 1 time, 2 Red, 3 red, 4 teeth/ears/eyes, 5 grandmother, 6 wolf,

7 grandmother, 8 wolf, 9 happily

Task 3: Location and chara

cters

•

Ask students to tell you some other typical fairy tale locations. Give them

some help if necessary, e.g.,

Are fairy tales usually located in a castle or

in an office building?

Can they think of any typical baddies (evil

characters like the queen in

Snow White) and goodies (kind, nice

characters

like

Snow White)?

•

Hand out task 3. Students categorise the vocabulary in task 3 in pairs.

They should add more words and expressions if they can. Walk around

the class and help as necessary.

•

Discuss which char

acters are typically goodies or baddies as a class and

explain any vocabulary as necessary.