Home reading "Rapunzel" (with tasks).
методическая разработка по английскому языку (5 класс) по теме

Home reading

1. Answer the following questions.

1) Do you like reading fairy-tales?

2) If you like reading fairy-tales can you give any examples of your favorites?

3) What character are you most fascinated? What qualities does he or she have?

2. Get aquatinted with some of the characters. Match them with the descriptions.

1) Rapunzel

2) the enchantress

a) a woman who uses magic on people and things

b) a character in a fairy tale who is kept prisoner at the top of a high tower. She is set free when she lets her very long hair hang down the side of the tower and a handsome prince climbs up her hair, using it like a rope, and saves her.

3. What is the main idea of the fairy-tale “Rapunzel”? Do you have any ideas?

4. Study the vocabulary after the text. Mind the meaning of the phrasal verbs, idioms, and set expressions.

5. Read the text.

Rapunzel

There was once a couple who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. They had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion - rapunzel, and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, and had the greatest desire to eat some. This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable. Her husband was alarmed, and asked, "what makes you sad, dear wife." "Ah", she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die". The man, who loved her, thought, sooner than let your wife die, bring her some of the rampion yourself, let it cost what it will. At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife. She at once made herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It tasted so good to her - so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before. If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden. In the gloom of evening, therefore, he let himself down again. But when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him. "How dare you", said she with angry look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief. You shall suffer for it". He answered, "let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat". Then the enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, if the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world. It shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother. The man in his terror consented to everything, and when the woman was brought to bed, the enchantress appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under the sun.
When she was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest, and had neither stairs nor door, but quite at the top was a little window. When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me".
Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
After a year or two, it came to pass that the king's son rode through the forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a song, which was so charming that he stood still and listened. This was Rapunzel, who in her solitude passed her time in letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found. He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it. Once when he was thus standing behind a tree, he saw that an enchantress came there, and he heard how she cried,
"If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune". thought he, and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair". Immediately the hair fell down and the king's son climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as her eyes had never yet beheld, came to her. But the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred that it had let him have no rest, and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband, and she saw that he was young and handsome, she thought, he will love me more than old dame gothic does. And she said yes, and laid her hand in his. She said, I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse. They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said to her, tell me, how it happens that you are so much heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son - he is with me in a moment. Ah. You wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do I hear you say. I thought I had separated you from all the world, and yet you have deceived me. In her anger she clutched Rapunzel’s beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground. And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

On the same day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened the braids of hair, which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the king's son came and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, she let the hair down. The king's son ascended, but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress, who gazed at him with wicked and venomous looks. Aha, she cried mockingly, you would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest. The cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well. Rapunzel is lost to you. You will never see her again. The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in his despair he leapt down from the tower. He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes. Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries, and did naught but lament and weep over the loss of his dear wife. Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness. He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it, and when he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell on his neck and wept. Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them as before. He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

Vocabulary

couple пара

in vain напрасно

be about собираться

grant one’s desire удовлетворить ч-л желание

splendid великолепный

herb трава

surround окружать

belong to принадлежать к-л

enchantress волшебница, колдунья

dread бояться

dare осмеливаться

bed клумба

rampion-rapunzel колокольчик-рапунцель

increase возрастать

long for жаждать

get of sth избавиться от ч-л

pine away чахнуть

alarm встревожить

clamber down опускаться

miserable несчастный, жалкий

hastily спешно

clutch схватить

greedily жадно

descend спускаться

in the gloom of evening в сумраке ночи

mercy милость

soften смягчать

make up one’s mind принимать решение

treat относится (к к-л)

care for заботиться о

consent соглашаться

beneath под

magnificent великолепный

spun крученный

unfasten расплетать

braided tresses косы

hook крючок

climb up взбираться

charming очаровательный

solitude одиночество

pass one’s time проводить время

resound звучать

touch one’s heart тронуть сердце

ladder лестница

mount взбираться

try one’s fortune попытать счастья

terribly ужасно

frighten пугать

beheld взглянуть

stir тронуть

force заставлять

gothic готика

skein клубок

deceive обманывать

clutch сжимать

wrap обматывать

seize схватить

snip отрезать

snap оторвать

pitiless безжалостный

grief горе

misery страдания

cast out выгнать

ascend пониматься

gaze at уставиться на

wicked злой

venomous ядовитый

mockingly издевательски

fetch принести

scratch out царапать

leap down прыгать

escape сбежать

thorns шипы

pierce прокалывать

wander about бродить по

naught ничего

lament оплакивать

roam about бродить по

give birth родить

wretchedness крайняя нищета

familiar знакомый

towards по направлению к

approach подойти

weеp плакать

receive получать

contented довольный

6. The fairy-tale is about:

a) kindness and justice;

b) love and attachment;

c) both of them.

7. Put the events in correct order.

1) ___; 2) ___; 3) ___; 4) ___; 5) ___; 6) ___; 7) ___; 8) ___; 9) ___;

10) ___; 11) ___; 12) ___; 13) ___; 14) ___.

f) A couple wished for a child.

e) The woman looked down into the garden and saw a bed which was planted with rampion.

k) The husband  clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, clutched a handful of rampion.

c) When he climbed down the wall for the second time, he saw the enchantress and she said he would suffer for it.

j) She made a condition – she wanted to take their future child.

b) Once the enchantress gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.

n) When Rapunzel was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a tower.

g) Passing by the tower the king's son heard a song of Rapunzel.

m) He cried, “Rapunzel. And she let her hair down.

l) The king’s son asked her to marry him and she agreed.

i) The enchantress knew about it and clutched her beautiful tresses.

h) Escaping from the enchantress he got into the thorns that pierced his eyes.

a) Some years later he found Rapunzel with the twins.

d) When two of her tears wetted his eyes, he could see with them as before.

8. Choose the right answer.

1) A couple who had long in vain wished for ___.

a) a child  b) Rapunzel  c) a rampion

2) The woman had the greatest ___ to eat some rampion.

a) dislike b) impression  c) desire

3) When the man had clambered down the wall he was terribly ___, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.

a) glad  b) afraid  c) delightful

4) The  enchantress made one condition: the man had to give her the ___ which his wife would bring into the world.

a) salad  b) kindness  c) child

5) When Rapunzel was twelve years old, the enchantress shut her into a ___.

a) castle  b) tower  c) hut

6) The king’s son heard a ___ of Rapunzel, which was so charming that he stood still.

a) song  b) speech  c) crying

7) Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when the king’s son asked her if she would take him for her ___.

a) friend  b) husband  c) brother

8) Rapunzel and the king’s son agreed to bring with him a skein of silk every time that he comes to weave a ladder with it.

a) silk  b) cotton  c) sateen

9) The enchantress was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.

a) town  b) valley  c) desert

10)  The king’s son led Rapunzel to his kingdom where he was joyfully ___, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

a) rejected  b) received  c)  mocked

9. Who said these words? One of them could be said by not only one person.

a) the husband of the woman;

b) the woman;

c) the king’s son;

d) the enchantress;

1) "If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I too will try my fortune".

2) "If I can't eat some of the rampion, which is in the garden behind our house, I shall die".

3) "How dare you", said … with angry look, "descend into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief. You shall suffer for it".

4) …  answered, "let mercy take the place of justice, I only made up my mind to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat".

5) "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair".

10. Answer the questions.

1) Why did the man climb down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress?

2) What condition did the enchantress make?

3) Where did Rapunzel live?

4) What did the king’s son do when he heard Rapunzel singing?

5) Why was the enchantress so angry with Rapunzel? Can you describe her actions?

6) When and how did the king’s son and Rapunzel meet again?

11. Retell the story as if you are:

a) the woman who gave birth a child (Rapunzel);

b) Rapunzel;

c) the enchantress;

d) the king’s son.

12. Continue the story using your imagination and then compare your version with your classmates’ versions.

Keys

№2. 1)b;2)a

№6. c

№7. 1)f;2)e;3)k;4)c;5)j;6)b;7)n;8)g;9)m;10)l;

11)i;12)h;13)a;14)d.

№8. 1)a;2)c;3)b;4)c;5)b;6)a;7)b;8)a;9)c;10)b

№9. 1)c;2)b;3)d;4)a;5)c,d