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Folk Tales

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Folk Tales

Vocabulary

Folklore (or lore) (Folk tales): consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs included in the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. The study of folklore is sometimes called folkloristics, and people who study folklore are sometimes referred to as folklorists.

Fables: a short moral story, esp. one with animals as characters

Myths: A myth is a story that usually explains something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman beings.

Fairy tale: It is a type of imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature, as we know them, do not operate.

A proverb: is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.

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What is a folk tale?

• A folktale is a story which began with oral storytelling.

• Passed down through the ages

• Teaches lesson

• Explains why things are as they are.

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Why use folktales?

The great power of the story is that it engages us affectively as well as requiring our cognitive attention, we learn the content of the story we are emotionally engaged by its characters or events.

The use of literature designed for children in the target culture allows learner of the target language to share cultural experiences and attitudes in a very direct way.

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simple and straightforward

includes magic or supernatural powers

characters represent human qualities such as good, evil, wisdom, foolishness, laziness

problems and conflicts are clear

ending usually happy or satisfying

good usually rewarded, evil punished

Characteristics of Folktales

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Examples of Folk Tales

The Nightingale

The Seventh Sister

How the Snake Got Poison

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit

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What is a fable?

A fable is a very brief story in prose or in verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.

The Crow and the JarThe Wolf and the House DogThe Fox and the CrowThe Country Mouse and the City MouseThe Maid and the Milk pail

Examples of Fables

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Examples of Fairy Tales

CinderellaSnow White and the Seven DwarvesElla EnchantedCinder Edna

What is a fairy tale?

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described)[1] and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

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Quiz Time!

•Which genre teaches a moral at the end?

•What are two examples of fairy tales?

•What is a story with no known author?

•What are three examples of folk tales?

•What kind of story is The Country Mouse and the City Mouse?