Traditional Stories

  Les Contes: Words You Need

Henriette Tuzzolino (Tikipunga High School) has created and shared the following resources to use with your senior students while working on Traditional Stories and Tales.  Henriette has focused on vocabulary and its aquisition to equip students as they embark on discussion or creative work in this area. She says she  "got a bit carried away on « wordlearner.com »" but this is to our benefit, since it gives our students plenty of choice and practice!  All resources are printable and the answers to the word games are provided.

Les Contes de Fées

Henriette Tuzzolino (Tikipunga High School) has created the resources below to study Fairytales with her combined 12/13 class.  Henriette's "Introduction aux Contes" outlines the genre specificities, describes the theme "le Merveilleux" and a guided writing activity.  She has also written short summaries to six of the famous Contes de Perrault (inc. Barbe Bleue and Le Petit Poucet), that can be use in to carry out the reading comprehension activity, which consists of matching the tale's citations to the tale's title.  Henriette has also used film extract of Peau d’Ane  a clip with Catherine
Deneuve and a range of podcasts she looked up.
Amongst others clips: Un Gateau d'Amour and other podcasts Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Some Traditional Stories Online

Read traditional tales and follow guidelines to write your own

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Les Contes de Perrault

Listen online and read the full transcripts of the classic Perrault tales such as La Barbe Bleue, Cendrillon, La Belle au bois dormant, Le Chat Botté, Le Petit Poucet, le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Peau d’Ane etc. Click on "Moralité " to read an interpretation of the tale. You can choose how to use these sound clips and transcripts, making vocab search, fill in the gap exercises, studying the way the tales are written before suggesting to your students to write a short one reusing the Perrault style. Further information in English is available on Wikipedia on Charles Perrault himself and from this link.

Fairy Tale Writing Guide

Patsy Hall (Hamilton High School for Girls) has put together this web based activity,  which is an introduction to the study of fairy tales. It provides links to the excellent website of the Bibliothèque Nationale.