Sexto año, Bloque I-Leer cuentos y leyendas

Ambiente: literario y ludico

Competencia especifica: interpretar cuentos y leyendas.

Hacer con el lenguaje: Explorar cuentos fantasticos, participar en lecturas guiadas,comparar semejanzas y diferencias de conductas, valores y escenarios propios, con los de los países donde se habla inglés.

Saber sobre el lenguaje: estructura de cuentos, tema , proposito, personajes, destinatario.

Ser con el lenaguaje: Reconocer los cuentos como reflejos de conductas y valores de las personas y sus culturas.

The Old Witch

by The Brothers Grimm

There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her - so how could she be happy? She never helps her mom in the kitchen and never cleans and orders her bedroom. She use to yell at her parents for anything, she disrespect her father and never listen to her mother. She wants everything she sees and she was always very rude.

One day she said to her parents, "I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has many marvelous things in her house, and I am very curious to see them."'

But her parents forbade her going, saying, "The witch is a wicked old woman, who performs many evil actions - and if you go near her, something bad can happens to you”

The girl, however, disobeyed her parents' command and went to the witch's house. When she arrived there, the old woman asked her:

"Why are you so pale?"

"Ah," she replied, trembling all over, "I have frightened myself so with what I have just seen."

"And what did you see?" inquired the old witch.

"I saw a black man on your steps."

"That was a collier," replied she. “He’s dirty because of the coal dust.”

"Then I saw a gray man."

"That was a sportsman, he’s sweating" said the old woman.

"After him I saw a blood-red man."

"That was a butcher" replied the old woman.

"But, oh, I was most terrified," continued the girl, "When I peeped through your window, and saw not you, but a creature with a fiery head."

"Then you have seen the witch in her proper dress," said the old woman. "For you I have long waited, and now you shall give me light."

So saying the witch took her magic wand and changed the little girl into a block of wood, and then threw it on the fire. When it was fully alight, she sat down on the hearth and warmed herself, saying:

"How good I feel! The fire has not burned like this for a long time!"



Leimos este pequeño cuento en el salón. Espero que puedan dejar sus comentarios, en inglés o español, o lo mas que puedan decir en inglés, recuerden que poco a poco iremos avanzando mas. Y aquí les dejo unas pocas preguntas para que les ayuden a su comentario.

1. Do you like the story?

2. What do you think is the moral of the story?

3. Can you mention a similar story but from our country?