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Summary of the storySnow White and the Seven Dwarves involves a princess, Snow White, and herstepmother. The stepmother, who is the queen, wants to be the most beautifulperson in the land. When her magic mirror tells her that Snow White is morebeautiful than her, she tells her servant to kill the princess. However, SnowWhite escapes into the forest where she lives with seven dwarves. The Queentries to kill Snow White twice more. The second time, thinking that Snow Whiteis dead, the dwarves put her in a glass box near the house. A prince passesby and tries to help. When he touches her face. The apple falls from hermouth and she wakes up. When they get married and the queen is so jealousthat she bursts into flames.
Charles Perrault (1628-1703) is generally considered to have made this story so well known. He is thoughtto be the author of many well-known fairy tales including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red RidingHood, and Bluebeard. There is some mystery surrounding the authorship of these famous fairy-tales,however, as the original manuscripts were signed by his youngest son, Pierre. As Pierre would have beenvery young when the tales were written, Charles Perrault is widely believed to have written them himself.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Teacher’s NotesLevel 3
Animals. The story can be used as part of an animal topic interest. The forest animals can take part in thedrama activity, using cardboard headbands to identify them.Celebrations. Christmas, birthdays and local festivals. Invitations, presents, greeting cards, food and partyactivities would be the focus.My House. The story can be used as an introduction to the topic to stimulate interest by asking the pupilsto imagine the inside of the dwarves’ house. How many rooms would there be, which items of furniturewould they have and how many. Activities could include making group wall murals of the inside and outsideof the dwarves’ house and sticking cut out furniture in the rooms. Items can be labelled. Numbers. The number seven can begin a discussion on size of families, days of the week, or a mathsproject.Parties. Depending on the time of year, the story can be exploited to develop this theme.
Pre reading activity
Sit in a circle with the pupils and show them the cover. Ifnecessary use the mother tongue but always repeat inEnglish. If a pupil answers in the mother tongue, repeatthe word yourself in English and continue. Do not insistthat pupils repeat after you. Pre-teach some of the keyvocabulary: seven, short, tall, beautiful, house, forest,rabbit, bird, (other animals), kind, horrible.After reading activities
Making crowns. Materials: cardboard, crayons, scissors, stapler. Time: 30 minutes. Design: The pupils decorate, cut out and staple.Song. ‘Two little blue birds on a wall,
One called Peter, one called Paul.Fly away Peter, fly away Paul.Come back Peter, come back Paul.’
The teacher copies and enlarges the outline of the two bluebirds on page 24 and gives each pupil acopy. The pupils colour on both sides, stick ontocardboard and add a cardboard loop, so that the birdscan be placed on each index finger. The song can beacted out with the hands. Game. The pupils sit on the floor in a circle. One pupil is the horrible queen and walks round theoutside of the circle with an apple. The queen chants:‘Snow White, Snow White, where are you, where areyou?’ The pupils chant: ‘Here I am, here I am, in theforest, far’. The queen then takes three long strides insilence and places the apple behind a pupil. The pupilsput their hands behind their backs. The chosen pupilgets up and runs after the queen, round the outside ofthe circle. The queen has to return to her place and sitdown before the other catches her. The game isrepeated.
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Penguin Young Readers Factsheets
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Role play/drama. Various scenes from the storycan be built up in simplified role plays. These canthen be put together as a full dramatization of thestory. The pupils bring in items of clothing and props. The teacher needs to use some imagination increating simple cardboard accessories. The pupils’imagination will do most of the work. The pupils canwork in groups on backdrop scenery on large sheetsof paper. Paints or thick wax crayons are best. Allow
several weeks of work for the drama to develop fullyand encourage the pupils to interpret their rolesimaginatively. Invite other pupils/parents.Repetition. Several opportunities for repetition ofspeech occurs here. Firstly of the rhyme ‘mirror’ onthe wall’ but also from making speeches for each ofthe 7 dwarves. Each one would say ‘good morning’,sitting at the table eating, they could all ask for thebread, pass the milk.
Watching or listening for specificinformation/post–reading/whole class.Before watching or listening to the cassette (if thepupils have already read the book) elicit the namesof the main characters from the story and write themon the board. Tell the pupils to, for example, standup when they see Snow White or when she speaks,to clap. Do the same for all the characters. This willresult in very energetic and active viewing orlistening. Ask the pupils to act out vanity, anger suchas the wicked queen shows, and opposite emotions.During watching and listening – whole classprediction. Play the video or audio cassette storythrough in its entirety. The second time through, stopjust before a dramatic event in the story ( forexample when Snow White takes the poisonedapple) and ask the pupils to tell you what happensnext, then view or listen to see if they were right.
Simultaneous reading and listening in groupswill help the pupils with pronunciation and
intonation. The pupils can all speak together for the‘mirror, mirror on the wall’ sequences, for example,or imitate the horrible queen when she is selling hercombs and apples.Whole class. When the pupils are thoroughlyfamiliar with the story, having heard it with theteacher and role played and/or dramatized it, theycan listen to it on cassette. As they listen they shouldlook at the pictures and point to the variouscharacters as they are mentioned. In order tointroduce this idea, it would be best to do this insmall groups with the teacher while the rest of theclass is working on another activity.Some pupils may like to mime certain scenes fromthe video. For example, Snow White’s motherwishing for a baby by the window, the stepmothertalking to the mirror, Snow White running away inthe woods and finding the dwarves’ house. Can theother pupils find the right places on the video?
Notes on the activities in the factsheet
Level 3
Activity 1. This is a Make a Story book activity.Enlarge the activity to A4 and give each pupil a copytogether with a piece of A4 paper. Show how to foldto make a book and show where the title will go andwhere the pictures will go inside. The pupils colour,cut and make a book. They write the sentencebeneath the correct picture. This can be used to retellthe story in a group. Use the photocopiable pagefrom the teacher's guide to make the bookActivity 2. This is a labelling activity. In a group or inpairs they should look through the reader and findthe name for each thing pictured in this activity.Activity 3. Students should decide if these are true orfalse statements.Activity 4. Pupils discuss in whole class or groupswhat might happen next to Snow White and thePrince. They have to write the next part of the story.
In the ReaderBefore You Read(Some of the pupils may give different answers.)On the cover: There are seven dwarvesThey are short.Snow White is tall.She is beautiful. (They may disagree.)In a small white house.A rabbit, birds, butterfly.Snow White likes animals.Their own favourite.Snow White looks kind.The dwarves look kind.After You ReadThe words are comb, crown, mirror, apple, bed,rabbit, present.
In the factsheetActivity 2 comb, apple, dwarf, mirror, castle,house, squirrel, fox, bird, deer.Activity 3 1=False; 2=False, 3=False, 4= True, 5=True, 6= False, 7= True.
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Using the accompanying video or audio cassette
Answers to the activities
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Use the pictures and sentences to make your book.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Name.............................................................................................................
Activity 1
P H O T O C O P I A B L E
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The king and queen and Snow White.The horrible queen and the magic mirror.‘Run away’ said the servant.‘Snow White was very tired.She lived with the seven dwarves.The horrible queen and the yellow comb.Snow White and the poison apple.Snow White and the prince get married.
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Penguin Young Readers FactsheetsPupils’ Activities
True or false? Put your answer in the box.
Snow White has brothers and sisters.
Activity 4
Activity 3
What happens next to Snow White and the Prince? Write the next part of their story.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Name.............................................................................................................
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1. The servant took Snow White to the castle.
2. She woke up to see 10 dwarves.
3. The comb was poisonous.
4. The apple was poisonous and made her sleep.
5. The prince could not wake her.
6. The Queen did not go to the party.
Activity 2
Write the name under the picture.
