Tuesday, 3 July 2012

Fairy Tale Exercise

Directions
1.       These are popular fairly tales which you may know. At the bottom of the picture, you will find some verbs. Choose a fairy tale and write sentences using the verbs to tell the fairly tale (1 verb/ 1sentence). Every verb MUST be in Past form. You may also use characters and helping words given to you.  
2.       The sentences you wrote may be single sentences. Therefore, use “because, so, until, while and when” to connect sentences. You should use at least 2 of these connecting words.
3.       Once you have finished telling the story, look at the picture and write a sentence to describe what the character(s) was/were doing in the picture. You can start the sentence by saying “In this picture, …..”. You MUST use Past Continuous Tense to describe the action.


TORTOISE & HARE



Character: Hare / Tortoise
Verbs:
Laugh
Dare __sb.__ to compete
Run
Sleep
Try to run
Win
Helping words:    fast, slow, finished line



 THE LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD



Character: The little red riding hood/ the wolf/ her grandmother/hunter
Verbs:
Go to see
Talk to
Follow
Eat
Ask
Kill
Helping words: almost, eyes, nose, mouth



Snow white



Character: Snow White, the Queen, the Prince, dwarfs
Verbs:
Be a princess
Be jealous of
Try to kill
Save
Eat
Die
Kiss
Come back to life
Helping words: poisoned apple   



THE UGLY DUCKLING



Character: the ugly duckling, mother duck, other ducklings,
Verbs:
Be born
Look ugly
Like (negative)
Try to make friends
Live alone
Cry
Become
Helping words:  different from, one day, swan



 SLEEPING BEAUTY



Character: sleeping beauty, prince, fairy godmothers, evil fairly, king and queen
Verbs:
Be born
Celebrate
Give blessing to
Curse
sleep for 100 year
kiss
wake up



 Goldilocks and the three bears



Character: Papa bear, Mama bear, Baby bear, Goldilocks
Verb:
Go for a walk
Go into the house
Taste
Break
Sleep
Frighten
Run away
Helping words: the porridge, the chair, the bed 

If you want to, you can practice writing more than one story. Enjoy!

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