1. An old man tried to move the mountains.
Unit 6
An old man tried to move the mountains.
Section B 2a-3b

2. fairy tales 睡美人 白雪公主 灰姑娘 小红帽 Sleeping Beauty Snow White 童话故事
old traditional stories
灰姑娘
小红帽
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood

3. A fairy tale is an old, traditional story
A fairy tale is an old, traditional story. Do you know what these fairy tales are about? 2a
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood

4. Hansel and Gretel What’s the text type? a letter a short story a play
文本类型
What’s the text type?
a letter
a short story
a play 戏剧
a piece of news

5. characters Hansel Gretel their father their stepmother the old woman
Fast Reading
What are the characters in the play?
Hansel
Gretel
brother
sister
characters
their father
their stepmother
husband
wife
the old woman

6. Did they hear their parents’ plan?
How did the story begin?
Read paragraph 1
2.What was the weather
like one year?
1.Where do they live?
dry
lived near a forest
the beginning of the story
5.What do you think
of the stepmother?
bad, unkind,
stone-hearted
3.What’s the result
of the weather?
No food
would grow.
Unless he leaves the children to die in the forest, the whole family will die because they don’t have enough food.
4.What did their stepmother
tell the father?
Did they hear their parents’ plan?

7. What did Hansel and Gretel do when they heard it?
They made a plan to save themselves.
They did nothing.

8. ? Scene 1 What did Hansel say about the plan?
G.The children learn that something
bad is going to happen.
Scene 1
What did Hansel say about the plan? ?
I am going outside to get something in the moonlight.

9. 1.What did Hansel go outside to get?
2-B.The children wake up.
3-D.Gretel learns about Hansel’s plan.
Scenes 2~3
1.What did Hansel go outside to get?
2.What did he do with the stones?
Some white stones.
He dropped white stones along the way.

10. 1.How did their parents feel when they went back home?
Scene 4
1.How did their parents feel
when they went back home?
A.Happy
B.Surprised
C.Unhappy
D.Both B and C
2.What did their parents
decide to do?
A. Live with their children
B. Never left their children in the forest
C. Take their children to the forest again.
E.The children surprise the parents.

11. difficulty： way： no more stones Dropped instead
Scene 5
F.Hansel has to change his plan.
difficulty：
no more stones
way：
Dropped
____ pieces of bread _____ ___ the stones.
instead of

12. 1.Were they successful? Why?
Scene 6
C.The children cannot find
the pieces of bread.
1.Were they successful? Why?
2.What did they do then?
No, they weren't. Because the birds ate the bread on the ground.
A: Kept walking.
C : Cried and felt afraid.
B: Stop walking.

13. T F F F A.The children get lost. Scene 7 True or False
1. The birds led the way. F
2. That bird’s song sounded not nice.
beautiful F
3. They found a house made of stones.
bread, cake and candy F
4. They wanted to live in the house.
eat

14. Who is brave enough to eat my house?
an old woman’s voice
1.What did she say?
Who is that?
Who is brave enough to eat my house?
2.Who was she?
A witch

15. Homework
1.Work in groups to act the play out.
2.Finish Self-check on Page 48.