Lead In: Task 1
Lead In: Task 1
Lead In: Task 1
Task 1: lead‐in
1. What is a fairy tale? What characters does it usually include?
2. Do you know the story of the ‘Sleeping Beauty’?
3. Can you describe the princess in the story?
a) What did she look like?
b) What was her personality like?
c) How old was she when she fell asleep?
Task 2: scanning
Read the text quickly and find the answers to these questions:
1. What is the name of the Sleeping Beauty in this story?
2. How old is she?
Task 3: reading for detail
Are the sentences below true [T] or false [F]? If they are false, correct them.
1. Not many people have Kleine‐Levin Syndrome.
2. Louisa sleeps 13 hours a day.
3. Her parents wake her up to eat and go to the toilet.
4. Doctors are not sure what causes Kleine‐Levin Syndrome.
5. The syndrome will get worse as Louisa gets older.
Hypothalamus
6. There is nothing she can do to make it better.
Task 4: vocabulary
Match the collocations (words which typically go together).
a) a nap
1. a bout
a siesta
2. to have b) symptoms
to suffer from pain
to be afflicted by stress
c) of depression
3. to take
of flu
to have
in bed
4. an eating
a personality d) drugs
a hereditary medicine
an auto‐immune
5. to prescribe
e) disorder
to take
f) a disorder
6. to alleviate
an illness
to relieve
a condition
Task 5: speaking about sleep
Look at the sentences below. What questions do you need to ask?
Find someone who … Name
usually sleeps more than eight hours a night during the week.
usually sleeps more than eight hours a night at the weekend.
usually gets enough sleep.
sometimes has a nap. When? For how long?
has slept more than 12 hours. Were they ill or not?
has stayed up all night. When? Why?
Ask the questions to the people in your class. Write the names in the right‐hand column.
Task 6: speaking about fairy tales
1. Sort the fairy tale characters into columns.
Note: fairy tales in English usually start ‘Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a
[character] who …’ and end ‘and they all lived happily ever after.’
Teacher’s notes and key
Level: pre‐intermediate – upper‐intermediate
Age group: teenagers, young adults or adults
Timing: 1½‐2 hours, excluding homework and extra lead‐in
Task 1: lead‐in
3.
a) beautiful (and possibly blonde/fair)
b) lovely, modest, sweet, kind and clever (or other similar adjectives)
c) 15
If students know the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, elicit the name ‘Prince Charming’.
If students do not know the story, you could:
watch the Disney film
read the Grimm brothers’ version of the tale, available online via www.grimmstories.com
do a jigsaw reading of the text at the end of these notes: give each student a paragraph or
sentence (depending on numbers) and get them to line up in chronological order without
showing each other their piece of text.
Task 2: scanning
It is a good idea to set a time limit for this activity: no more than five minutes.
1. Louisa Ball
2. 15
Task 3: reading for detail
1. T
2. F: the longest she has slept is 13 days
3. T
4. T
5. F: it will ‘fade’ = get weaker
6. F: she can take drugs/medicine
Task 4: vocabulary
The text will enable students to do the matching, but you will probably need to explain the
expressions as well.
1c; 2f; 3a (or possibly d); 4e; 5d; 6b
Sleeping Beauty
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were a king and queen who desperately wanted children.
One day, a frog came to see the queen and said, ‘You will have a daughter before the end of the
year.’ As the frog predicted, the queen gave birth to a baby girl.
The king and queen held a party to celebrate the birth. They invited their family and friends and
all the fairies in the country except for one. At the end of the party, the twelve fairies gave gifts to
the baby. One gave virtue, another gave beauty, another gave wealth …
The twelfth fairy was going to speak when suddenly the thirteenth fairy arrived. She was very
angry because she had not been invited. She said, ‘When the princess is 15 years old, she will
prick her finger on a spindle and die.’ Then she turned and left.
Everybody was very frightened, but the twelfth fairy said, ‘I cannot stop the bad fairy’s wish, but I
can change it a little: the princess will prick her finger on a spindle, but she will not die – she will
sleep for 100 years.’
The king and queen ordered all the spindles in the country to be destroyed and the princess grew
up to be lovely, modest, beautiful, clever and kind.
One day when the princess was 15, the king and queen were away and the princess decided to
explore the castle. She climbed to the top of an old tower and opened a little wooden door.
Behind the door, there was an old woman spinning. ‘What are you doing?’ asked the princess.
‘I’m spinning,’ replied the old woman. ‘And what is that thing which is turning so quickly?’ asked
the princess.
The princess reached out and touched the spindle. It pricked her finger and immediately she fell
into a very deep sleep. Everybody and everything in the castle fell asleep too.
The years passed and a thick forest grew around the castle. Princes from all over the world came
to rescue the princess, but the forest was so thick that they could not get through.
Then one day, 100 years after the princess fell asleep, Prince Charming came to the forest. The
trees became flowers and moved apart to let the prince pass. He went into the castle and found
the princess asleep in the tower. She was so beautiful that he bent down and kissed her. She
woke up and looked at him, and they fell in love.
The rest of the castle was now awake too and they organised a wedding party. The prince and
princess got married and they lived happily ever after.