Hansel and Gretel

The story of a bond between a Brother and a Sister, of how they survived a very hard situation. It started when their step mom told their Father who is a woodcutter, to bring the two kids at the forest and just leave them there. They are so poor that they cannot afford to feed them anymore.

While in the forest, the two stumbled upon a house made of candies,chocolates and biscuits. Because they were both hungry, they went inside to eat, not knowing that the woman who lives there was a witch who eats little children. The witch put Hansel in a cage and let Gretel do the house choirs. She also told Gretel to never forget to feed her Brother. But when Gretel Found out that if her Brother becomes fat, the witch will cook and eat him. She told Hansel about this and they came up with a plan.

 When the time came that Hansel will be cooked, Gretel told the witch that there’s something wrong with the oven. So the witch went inside the oven to take a look, Gretel took the opportunity and shoved her more inside and closed the oven. She freed Hansel and they ran away from the witches’ house.

Just in time, for their Father is looking all over the forest for them. He realized that he can’t live without his two kids, so the three went home and lived peacefully with each other. This story shows how tight the bond of a family is, thru thick and thin, a family is always there to help and give support. Even if it means risking their own life just to save their love ones.

Multiple choices questions

1. What job do the children father do?

a. Woodcutter.
b. Chef.
c.Tailor.

2. Who told the children's father to left them in the forest?

a.The witch.
b.The children stepmother.
c. Hansel and Gretel went themselves.

3. Why the children's are left in the forest?

a.They had been trouble-makers.
b.The father could not afford them to feed anymore.
c.The children hurting their stepmother.

4.What do Hansel and Gretel found in the forest?

a.Only trees.
b. Only trees and animals.
c.They found a house made of candies,chocolates and biscuits other than just trees and animals.

5. How Hansel and Gretel save themselves from the witch?

a.Feed the witch a lot so that the witch barely able to move when they fight.
b.Gretel fool the witch to do the chores together but let her do more until the witch feel tired and unable to catch Gretel and his brother when they escape.
c.Gretel took the opportunity and shoved her more inside and closed the oven when the witch went into oven to check.

The Elves and The Shoemaker

Fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

shoemaker	shocked	skipped	curtain	table
elves	singing	sold	dress	slip

There was once a (   1   )with his wife living in a village. But they were so poor that they have nothing to eat for the next coming days. They have nothing aside from a leather which will be good for a pair of shoes only. The shoemaker left it on the (   2   ) so he could sew it by tomorrow.

The next day the shoemaker was so (   3   ) to see a pair of shoes, sewn so skillfully. They were already made and ready to be (   4   ). The shoemaker was so very happy that with his money he bought a leather which will be good for two pair of shoes. He left it again on the table that night. The next day he saw again a four pair of shoes well made and so it went on.He now became a very rich shoemaker.

 One day he told his wife to hid that night so that they would know who really makes the shoes. They saw the (   5   ) dancing and (   6   ) while making shoes. The next morning his wife told him that she would make a (   7   ) for the elves for they were almost naked. The shoemaker was so happy to hear that and thought that it would be better to make a shoes for them too for their bare feet.

They put it in the table and that night they hid again behind the (   8   ). The elves was so happy to see the shoes and dress that were made for them. They (   9   ) their clothes and (   10   ) out of the window. After that night the elves were never seen again.

 

 

The Princess and The Pea

There was once a prince, and he wanted a princess, but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled right around the world to find one, but there was always something wrong. There were plenty of princesses, but whether they were real princesses he had great difficulty in discovering; there was always something which was not quite right about them. So at last he had come home again, and he was very sad because he wanted a real princess so badly.

One evening there was a terrible storm; it thundered and lightninged and the rain poured down in torrents; indeed it was a fearful night. In the middle of the storm somebody knocked at the town gate, and the old King himself sent to open it. It was a princess who stood outside, but she was in a terrible state from the rain and the storm. The water streamed out of her hair and her clothes; it ran in at the top of her shoes and out at the heel, but she said that she was a real princess. ''''Well we shall soon see if that is true,'''' thought the old Queen, but she said nothing.

She went into the bedroom, took all the bed clothes off and laid a pea on the bedstead: then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top of the pea, and then twenty feather beds on top of the mattresses. This was where the princess was to sleep that night. In the morning they asked her how she slept. ''''Oh terribly bad!'''' said the princess. ''''I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heaven knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!'''' They saw at once that she must be a real princess when she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Nobody but a real princess could have such a delicate skin. So the prince took her to be his wife, for now he was sure that he had found a real princess, and the pea was put into the Museum, where it may still be seen if no one has stolen it. Now this is a true story.

True or false questions.

1.The weather is fine when there a princess come at one night.(   )

2. The prince so sad because he still have not found the right princess yet at the beginning    story.(   )

3. The queen laid a pea on the beadstead.(   )

4. The princess feel happy after had a good night sleep.(   )

5. The princess marry the prince at the end of the story.(   )

 

Little Red Riding Hood

The story is about a lovely sweet girl who is loved by one and all. Everyone calls the girl Little Red Riding Hood as she always wears a riding hood made of red velvet, which was gifted to her by her grandmother. One fine day, Little Red Riding Hood’s mother packs a bottle of wine and a cake in a basket and asks her to take them to her sick grandmother. Before she leaves, her mother warns her not to talk to anyone on the way. Little Red Riding Hood promises her that she wouldn’t and sets off to her grandmother’s place, which was put up in the forest, half an hours walk from the village.

 When Little Red Riding Hood enters the forest, she comes across a wolf, who plans to eat her up. So when the wolf asks her where she is off to, she answers him that she is on her way to see her grandmother, without suspecting the wolf. When the wolf asks her where her grandmother lives, Little Red Riding Hood innocently answers that too. The wolf trots along with Little Red Riding Hood for sometime and tempts her to make a slow journey, asking her to enjoy the scenery. Little Red Riding Hood leaves the path and starts picking flowers and as she does so, she goes deeper and deeper into the forest. Meanwhile, the big bad wolf reaches grandmothers house and knocks the door. He enters the house and gobbles Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother. Then, he puts on the grandmothers clothes and night cap and lies down in her bed.

 Little Red Riding Hood soon realizes that she is late and hurries to her grandmother’s house. She reaches the house and finds the front door wide open. She makes her way towards the bed, to see her grandmother looking very strange. “Grandmother, what big ears you have!” she asks. “All the better to hear you with,” the wolf replies. “Grandmother, what big eyes you have!” she asks. “All the better to see you with,” the wolf replies. “Grandmother, what big hands you have!” she asks. “All the better to hold you with,” the wolf replies. “But grandmother, what big teeth you have!” she asks. “All the better to eat you with,” the wolf replies, and leaps out of the bed and swallows Little Red Riding Hood. After that, the wolf gets back to the bed and starts sleeping.

After a while, a passing huntsman hears the loud snores and goes inside the house, to find a wolf sleeping on the bed. He immediately cuts open the wolf’s stomach with a pair of scissors. Little Red Riding Hood pops out of the wolf’s stomach, followed by her grandmother. They then fill the wolf’s stomach with stones and sew it. The wolf wakes up and tries to run, but falls down dead instead. The grandmother drinks the wine and eats the cake and feels much better and the story ends with Little Red Riding Hood promising her grandmother that she would never again leave the path when her mother has forbidden it.

Structured And Wh-Questions

1. Why everyone calls the girl Little Red Riding Hood?

2.What are the things Little Red Riding Hood's mother packs in a basket?

3.Who is Little Red Riding Hood's met when she came across the forest?


4.When is the grandmother of Little Red Riding Hood's eaten?


5. Where does Little Red Riding Hood's leading when she epick up some flowers?

INTRODUCTION TO GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALE STORIES

Around 1806 Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) started to collect fairy-tales with his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859). Nowadays their collection is one of the best known books of the world. After the bible there is no other book which has been translated more, read more or pressed more. Worldwide approximately 26 millions copies have appeared in more than 160 different languages.

The brothers Grimm have not written the stories from own fantasy. Both brothers were famous language scientists and their scientific research had been - among other things - aimed at the sources of the German language such as these still lived in the oral tradition of fairy-tales and sages.

The first part of the "Kinder- und Hausmärchen" contained 86 fairy-tales and was published on December 24th in 1812. The Second part - with 70 stories - appeared two years later in 1814. As from 1819 appeared updated and improved versions and in 1822 a third part was published, the so-called "Anmerkungen" - a bulky bookwork with notes of the brothers Grimm themselves concerning the origin and the meaning of the collected stories. Finally a second, revised and multiplied edition appeared in 1856, which forms the basis for almost all translations and following editions: a collection of all 200 stories plus the so-called 10 child legends.

The fairy-tales of Grimm are and remain unprecedentedly popular. In the beginning that was however different. Of the first edition from 1812 only 900 copies were pressed and it lasted more than three years before they were sold. The first expenditure was a simple book without rich illustrations or expensive layout. Such as said it contained 86 stories. A large part of it will become later the best-known fairy-tales of all-time, such as Snow-white, Mother Hulda (Frau Holle), King Thrushbeard, Sleeping beauty, Little Brother and Little Sister, The Frog King, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Grethel, Little Red Cap, Cinderella, The Bremen town musicians and Fundevogel (Bird-foundling) with the famous opening sentence: "There was once..." and the likewise well-known lock rule: "and if they are not dead, they are living still." The second part appeared on September 30th 1814 (with as year 1815) and contained 70 stories. Fifteen of them were told by Katharina Dorothea Viehmann, which in sum provided 37 stories to the brothers Grimm.