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Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf - by Roald Dahl
The author of this poem once said that he wrote this as a joke. He didn’t want people to take the poem too seriously. Watch the video. If you want to read along, you can read the text below. Then answer questions 1 through 9 while watching. You can look up the blue words after watching to learn the meaning and add them to your personal word list.
As soon as Wolf began to feel
That he would like a decent meal,
He went and knocked on Grandma's door.
When Grandma opened it, she saw
The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin,
And Wolfie said, "May I come in?"
Poor Grandmamma was terrified,
"He's going to eat me up!" she cried.
And she was absolutely right.
He ate her up in one big bite.
But Grandmamma was small and tough,
And Wolfie wailed, "That's not enough!
I haven't yet begun to feel
That I have had a decent meal!"
He ran around the kitchen yelping,
"I've got to have a second helping!"
Then added with a frightful leer,
"I'm therefore going to wait right here
Till Little Miss Red Riding Hood
Comes home from walking in the wood."
He quickly put on Grandma's clothes,
(Of course he hadn't eaten those).
He dressed himself in coat and hat.
He put on shoes, and after that,
He even brushed and curled his hair,
Then sat himself in Grandma's chair.
In came the little girl in red.
She stopped. She stared. And then she said,
"What great big ears you have, Grandma."
"All the better to hear you with,"
the Wolf replied.
"What great big eyes you have, Grandma."
said Little Red Riding Hood.
"All the better to see you with," the Wolf replied.
He sat there watching her and smiled.
He thought, I'm going to eat this child. Compared with her old Grandmamma,
She's going to taste like caviar.
Then Little Red Riding Hood said,
“But Grandma, what a lovely great big
furry coat you have on."
"That's wrong!" cried Wolf.
"Have you forgot
To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
Ah well, no matter what you say,
I'm going to eat you anyway."
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
She whips a pistol from her knickers.
She aims it at the creature's head,
And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
A few weeks later, in the wood,
I came across Miss Riding Hood.
But what a change! No cloak of red,
No silly hood upon her head.
She said, "Hello, and do please note
My lovely furry wolfskin coat."
Basis
Task 1 - Questions
1. Who is knocking on grandma’s door?
2. Who is the wolf waiting for?
3. What will Little Red Riding Hood taste like?
4. What is the wolf wearing?
5. Where does Little Red Riding Hood hide her pistol?
6. What kind of clothes does Little Red Riding Hood wear in the end?
7. Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood is different from the original story. Write down Original or Roald Dahl after every bullet point.
A hunter that saves grandma and Little Red Riding Hood.
A pistol.
Little Red Riding Hood says something about the wolf’s big teeth.
A coat made of wolf-skin.
Stones in the wolf’s belly.
Task 2
1. Je hebt inmiddels een aantal opdrachten gemaakt over de persoonlijk voornaamwoorden (=personal pronouns) in het Engels. Maak een kleine samenvatting waarin je een stamgroepgenoot uitlegt wat persoonlijk voornaamwoorden zijn, wanneer je ze gebruikt en geef hier ten minste twee voorbeeldzinnen bij. De vorm van deze samenvatting mag je zelf kiezen. Je kan denken aan geschreven tekst, een kleine poster, een mindmap enz.
2. Fill in the correct answers. Choose between can '+' and can't '-'.
a) I …… read the story of the Little Red Riding Hood.
b) Grandma ……. fight the wolf.
c) The Little Red Riding Hood …… see it’s not her grandma.
d) The wolf …… wear grandma’s clothes.
e) The Little Red Riding Hood …… use her pistol to fight the wolf.
Task 3
1. Which sentence bestdescribes the most important turning point of the passage?
A) Wolfie eats Grandmamma
B) Little Red Riding Hood enters Grandmamma’s house
C) Little Red Riding Hood shoots Wolfie
D) Wolfie dresses as Grandmamma
2. What is the main reason why Wolfie puts on Grandma’s clothes?
A) he had not eaten them
B) to appear as Grandma to Little Red Riding Hood
C) he knew he would have to take a long walk in the woods
D) Little Red Riding Hood had taken his fur coat
Task 4
1. Who are the main characters from this poem? Write them down and describe what they look like and how they act in 5 sentences per character.
2. Choose a character from a different fairy tale and describe him or her in 5 sentences (both looks and personality). Make a drawing of him or her. Make sure to make your drawing as detailed as possible, so your classmates can guess from which fairy tale your character is! Swap drawings and compare. While you describe your character, use this/that/these/those, bijv. This character ...
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