Telling Tales

Monday & Wednesday 27^th- 29^th October, 2014

Hello! How are you?

I hope you are having a nice weekend. I also hope you to enjoy the concert.

We finished the topic of ‘Holidays’ last week. And we put an end to it (finished) by listening and watching ‘La Isla Bonita’ by Madonna. We laughed at the video clip! It’s funny to look back, but everything looks sort of (looks like)…’old’, ‘outdated’, ‘old-fashioned’?

Anyway, it’s good to look back on the past from time to time.               

I’m glad to know you have also decided on the topic of your project.

So, you are going to do it about “Beach Handball”. Remember that the deadline (the dates to hand the project in) is 15^th-17^th December.

We spent the rest of the week, telling tales.

We read a story about two people that were very much in love and didn’t have much money. Christmas was getting closer (there was little time for Christmas) and they wanted to give a special present to each other. The husband pawned his watch (take something to a shop and have money in return. You have the opportunity of rebuying it if you want to) to buy his wife the combs she liked so much. But she had her hair cut and sold it so as to get money to buy her husband a beautiful chain for his watch. He didn’t have a watch to use the chain with. And her hair was too short for sporting the combs he had bought her. But they had lots of love!

Our second story was “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

It starts like all the tales: ‘Once upon a time’

Once upon a time there was an emperor who wanted to have a very special suit, so when his people saw him they could say “What wonderful clothes our emperor is wearing”. Two tailors came from a remote land. They told the emperor that they were going to make a special suit that only intelligent people could see. The emperor liked the idea very much. Time went by and the tailors worked on the clothes. The emperor was worried because he couldn’t see anything. The day came when the suit was finished and the emperor paraded along the streets of his kingdom completely naked. Everybody cheered and admired the wonderful clothes he was wearing, even though he wasn’t wearing any clothes! Suddenly a child said aloud what everybody was thinking “Which clothes? The emperor is naked”. The emperor felt embarrassed and ran to the palace as fast as he could. He looked for the tailors, but they were gone!

The morale of the story could be that we should all tell what we really think and not remain silent when we are told lies. This is especially true nowadays with all the things that are going on (happening) in our country!

The stories helped us to practice the past and to use adjectives and adverbs, as well as connectors in a narrative.

Adverbs modify adverbs, adjectives or verbs.

Very good, really quickly, run fast

Adjectives modify nouns.

Wonderful clothes

Most of adverbs of manner come from adding ‘–ly’ to the adjective.

They tell “how”. He ran quickly. How did he run? Quickly

Adjective	Adverb
quick	quickly
sad	sadly
happy	hapily
fast	fast
hard	hard
good	well

You can do more exercises online on this link

Exercises on adjectives and adverbs

This was all! See you on Monday!