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>.