How Can I Relate with Tales?
Social Practice of the Language To read fantastic tales Achievements • Explore fantastic tales. •Read tales. • Compare and contrast conduct, values, and settings. Product: Illustrated Venn Diagram Recreational and Literary Environment
1 To start exploring the tale, look at the picture and discuss with your class.
• What do you think is the theme of this tale? • Who was it written for? • Why did the author write it?
2 Continue exploring the tale. Look at the illustration, read the title, and together with your partner answer the question.
What is this tale about?
3 Listen and read the tale. Circle unknown words and work with your partner to define them by considering the context. 8 106
The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen
There was once a prince who wanted to marry a real princess. But his mother, the queen, was very demanding and wanted nothing but the best for her son. One evening, a storm came on; rain poured down in torrents when a knock was heard at the door of the palace. It was a girl asking for shelter . She was all wet and her dress muddy; she looked awful. Yet she claimed to be a real princess. The queen, who didn’t believe she was a princess, went into the bedroom where the girl was going to sleep, took all the bedding off
and laid a pea on the bottom; then, she took 20 mattresses and laid them on top of the pea. The next morning, she asked the girl how she had slept. “Oh, very badly! Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard,” the princess said. Then they knew she had spoken the truth because nobody but a real princess could possibly have such sensitive skin. So, the prince took her for his wife. There, that is a true story.
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