The Grimm brothers are the most famous fairytale writers in the world – but they actually didn´t come up with any of their stories them selves – they travelled around in Europe and  wrote down the stories that people had been telling each other for many, many years. . But they are famous for their work, and most certainly your have read one or two of their stories.

  1. Can you name any famous Grimm brothers fairytale?

2. Now – we will start by listening to a Grimm fairytale together, and talk about our understanding and the story. The fairytale is called ” The Golden Fish”, or sometimes ”The Fisherman and his wife”, and you find the audio track HERE

After listening – TALK IN GROUPS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

  1. Why does the fisherman put the fish back in the sea the first time he catches it?
  2. Why does the wife keep sending the fisherman back down to the sea and the fish?
  3. What was the Fisherman’s wife like? What in the text makes you think so?
  4. Did the Fisherman think that asking for more was wrong? If he did think asking for more was wrong, why did he keep returning?
  5. If asking for more was wrong, why was the fisherman’s request granted each time until the last?
  6. What do you think the moral of the story is? What is the text telling us?
  7. Look back at the text and focus on how the water and the wind changes with each new request from the fisherman. Make a list on paper of these changes!

3. Now – listen to The Golden Goose on you own. It is 15 minutes long and it has text. Try not to read along, but rather just listen if you can, so that you practise your listening skills. After listening – write a summery of the text IN SWEDISH and hand into Vklass!

4. You are now going to read a fairytale of your choice. You have a choice of two texts:

  • If you want to boost your English, read Bord duka dig which is a great story with some difficult language and words.    Also – practice these words – they will be your homework!
  • If you feel that reading texts can be a bit challenging, read Rumpelstiltskin which is a classic. Also – practice these words – they will be your homework!
  1. READ the text. Read it more than once if you need to.
  2. Translate 10 cm of the text in to Swedish. Make it SOUND Swedish. We will talk about what that means in class.
  3. Translate your Swedish text back to English. Check your English text with the original.
  4. Pick out 10 words that you don´t already know. Look it up on Bab.la and then write 10 sentances using these new words.

5. You are to listen to a fairytale of your choice and after retell it to your friend. You need to keep notes as you listen, and maybe you need to listen to the fairytale twice in order to be able to retell it. You find the fairytales to choose from HERE

NOTE: Retell means…. to reTELL. Not reREAD…. reTELL. 

6. You will all write your own fairytale now. We will go through the assignment together in class.

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