Fairy tales characters combat the evil.
Bad weather hasn’t ruined our plans for the day. Today WOA Center was visited by a group of students from school No.141 which has specialization - profound study of foreign languages. The topic of the visit was “American Tales”. The children were offered an informative slide show and a display of colorful books from the library collection. We have introduced the children to the most popular characters of American tales and their adventures; we compared the plots with Ukrainian tales and found similarities. The children are now able to differentiate folk and literary tales.
The tales’ characters combat the evil in the world and do a lot of good things. The kids can learn from them to be brave and be good. The kids who know a lot of tales received prizes and diplomas. The event was funny and educational.
Participants number – 30 persons ( 28 students+ 2 teachers).
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For a library event WOA Dnipropetrovsk prepared and presented the display «Fairytales of the World» of bright kiddy’s books from the library collection. All the students of English can improve their language skills by looking through these books, meeting the new characters, learning about their adventures, comparing the Ukrainian fairytales with the tales of other countries.
Today’s session of the Gabfest Club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) was dedicated to the International Day of children’s book.
We decided to focus on the fairy tales as a highlight of the children’s literature.
A collection of English speaking fairy tales was presented to the group. We had some fun comparing the English and Russian titles of world famous tales.
The next funny activity was to describe illustrations to the American book “The Red Riding Hood”. The most exciting moment was the description of the final illustration where the Grandmother was having a glass of wine to celebrate the saving from the Wolf’s belly.
The other book under scrutiny was an American version of the “Three Bears”. We have discussed the illustrations and watched an animated cartoon about the bears and Goldilocks.
To draw the line of the discussion we have discussed the American tale “Little Chicken”. The plot of the tale was funny and innocent at the beginning. But the club members were shocked by the twist in the tail – a helicopter crashed on the wagon where Little Chicken and other poultry characters were incarcerated by the cunning Fox. Such development was considered inappropriate for the children’s story.
The session was both funny and educational. The adult Club members enjoyed the topic that aroused nostalgic feeling in each participant.
Number of participants – 29 persons.
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