1. MOTIVATIONAL PART (3-5 minutes)

- introduction of the story with help of pictures

- the teacher puts the pictures one by one on the board

- the pupils try to guess what the topic is

2. PRE-READING ACTIVITIES (10 minutes)

a) Restoration of the original fairy tale with help of the pictures

b) Talking about the book and film versions of the fairy tale

- 1697 by Charles Perrault: Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper

- 19th century by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Aschenputtel

- 1899 - first movie version by Georges Méliès: Cinderella

- 1950 - Disney’s version: Cinderella

- 1969 - Czech musical film (black-and-white): Popelka

- 1973 - Czech-German movie: Tři oříšky pro Popelku

- 1998 - US romance, “the real story of Cinderella”: Ever After

- 2004 - US modernization of the story: A Cinderella Story

(There are hundreds of adaptations of this fairy tale. I have chosen only those I

think can be interesting for the children and they probably know them.)

+ REVOLTING RHYMES by ROALD DAHL

3. WHILE-READING ACTIVITIES (30 minutes)

a) Pupils read the story for themselves with help of dictionaries - because of some

unknown words. There is also one passage with gaps - pupils have to fill them

in according to the sense and rhyming (box with words next to the text)

(I would not pre-teach the vocabulary because it could destroy the moment of

surprise when reading the story.)

b) Reading the story together, checking the gap-filling and explaining some

confusing passages

4. POST-READING ACTIVITIES (45 minutes)

a) Comparing the version by Roald Dahl with the traditional fairy tale (focusing

on similarities and differences)

b) Pupils draw a comics based on Roald Dahl’s story (work in groups of 3-4)

c) Watch the online version of the fairy tale on YouTube.com (reading

accompanied by pictures)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXGmnR9F5Y

Sources:

Cinderella. In Wikipedia : the free encyclopedia [online]. St. Petersburg (Florida) : Wikipedia

Foundation, [cit. 2010-12-10]. Dostupné z WWW:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella>.

DAHL, Roald; BLAKE, Quentin. Revolting rhymes. London : Puffin Books, 2008. 46 p.

YouTube [online]. 16.2.2010 [cit. 2010-12-10]. Revolting Rhymes_ Cinderella.mp4.

Dostupné z WWW: <Revolting Rhymes_ Cinderella.mp4>.