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FAIRY TALES TEACH US A LOT



For hundreds of years, and perhaps even thousands of years, adults have
traditional fairy tales to their children. The stories have been handed down
one generation to another. They have become a fundamental part of our culti
In early versions of fairy tales there is much more cruelty and violence tl
in the stories published for children today. The case of 'Cinderella' is a gc
example.

In this variant, Cinderella's step-sisters are very pretty (rather than ugly, as tl
are in the modern version). But they are much more cruel. Cinderella works
a slave and has no bed to sleep in. Her step-sisters throw her food into the f
Cinderella has to pick it out of the fire-place so that she can eat.

When news comes that there is going to be a big party so that the prince
choose a future wife, naturally Cinderella is told that she can't go. Cindere
visits her real mother's grave* and cries. Her tears fall on the ground
tree grows. From the branches of the tree, beautiful clothes fall down. So wl
Cinderella finally goes to the party, she looks beautiful and the prince falls:
love with her.

The prince comes looking for Cinderella bringing with him the golden shoe tl
Cinderella was wearing. Cinderella's sisters try on the shoe but it doesn't
To make it fit, one sister cuts off her toes*; the other cuts off her heel*. The
mother says: "You won't need to walk when you become queen!"

Eventually, the prince finds Cinderella and the story ends happily.

Even if there is violence and cruelty in fairy stories, they all have elemei
that make them forever popular. They are simple stories which usually invot
some form of cruelty or injustice. Good people become victims* and must wc
impossibly hard to try to solve their problems and find happiness. Children
identify with the hero or heroine may sometimes be encouraged to try to fi
solutions to their own problems. In any case, the stories have a happy endi
and give children great pleasure.

 

 

2. Are fairy tales part of our culture? Read aloud the extract which says about it.

3. What happens in the old version of "Cinderella"?

4. Why do people like fairy tales?

№39

 

 

1.Read the review and say in 2—3 sentences what it is about.

 























А laureate

лауреат

HAVE YOU READ?..

Children's writer Michael Morpurgo tells a very enjoyable story. If you have not
yet discovered his books, you will be surprised. The Amazing Story of Adolphus
Tips, for example, was published earlier this year.

Lily Tregenze who is 12, lives on a farm in the village of Slapton with her mother
and grandfather. It's 1943, the middle of the Second World War, and her father
is away in the army. Lily's life centres on her local school, currently filled with
people from London sent to the country for safety, and Tips, her beloved cat.

Tips keeps having kittens. But one of Lily's parents always drowns the kittens,
to Lily's despair, because they cannot keep and feed a lot of cats.

Then, when they have to move to their Uncle George's farm to make way for the
army, Tips disappears. For months it is only the kindness of a young American
soldier and his army friend who help Lily search for her cat, that helps her get
through the many changes and challenges in her life. And there's a lovely twist
at the end — which I shan't spoil for you — as the story shoots forward 60 years.

If you like The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips then you will probably also
enjoy Michael Morpurgo's Kensuke's Kingdom, Billy the Kid, Private Peaceful
and many others.

Michael was Children's Laureate* from 2003 to 2005, an honour which involves telling as many people as possible how important children and children's books are. He followed Quentin Blake and Anne Fine. Jacqueline Wilson was Children's Laureate until 2007.

As well as being an author, Michael Morpurgo, with his wife Clare, runs a
charity called Farms for City Children. It enables groups of children to holiday
in Devon, in the south west of England, or Wales.

The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo. Published in hardback
by Harper Collins. Due out in paperback in February 2006. Also available as an
audiobook, set of 3 CDs read by Michael Morpurgo and actress Jenny Agutter.
Duration three hours.

 

 

2.The author describes what the book is about. Find this extract and read it aloud.
3.Who helped Lily when her cat disappeared?
4.Why is it an honour to be Children's Laureate?

 

 

№40

 

 

1. Read the article and say in 2—3 sentences what it is about.

 




















An optometrist

специалист по коррекции зрения

 


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