54 B1+ | 6. Klasse | READING | Traditions, trends and lifestyles Working the reading task: True/False/Justification Read the article about the role of fairy tales in the modern world. First decide whether the statements (1–6) are true (T) or false (F) and put a cross ( ) in the correct box. Then identify the sentence in the text which supports your decision. Write the first 4 words of this sentence in the space provided. There may be more than one correct answer; write down only one. The first one (0) has been done for you. 6 Look at the title and subtitle. Predict what the text will be about. Read the statements and decide where you can find this information. Remember that the statements follow the order of the text and are likely to be paraphrased. As you read the text and statements, think about opinions. Are they literal or implied? Remember to write only the FIRST FOUR words of the sentence where you find the answer. Top tips Is there a place for fairy tales in the modern world? A parent of a private school student considers whether traditional tales are still relevant in the 21st century. Walk past any school playground and there’s a chance that the sound of singing will come to your ears. There’s an even greater chance that the song in question being sung so enthusiastically by a group of six- to eightyear-olds will be from a Disney blockbuster. Let It Go from Frozen comes to mind! Telling the story of a princess who, in a fit of bad temper, turns her whole world to ice has all the ingredients of the typical fairy tale: a dilemma resolved by a lucky and courageous heroine to give us the happy-everafter ending we all crave so badly. Disney certainly knows a thing or two about creating a deliciously mind-grabbing story, and many of the tales chosen by the film studio have endured for generations. Some of the best loved are, as they say in Beauty and the Beast, “as old as time.” Like the magical characters they portray, fairy tales have a power that transcends time and place. India has its very own version of Cinderella, as do China and Mexico, while the tale of Little Red Riding Hood was an established hand-me-down traditional story 1,000 years ago in the Middle East. Does it matter? Absolutely not. As with the Christmas story, the endings of protagonists Cinderella, Snow White or Sleeping Beauty surprise nobody. And that’s the way we like it – safe in the knowledge that no matter what happens, the curse is going to break, the antagonist will get what she/he deserves, and the princess is going to catch her man and live in the huge palace just beyond the sunset, happily ever after. But many experts believe that we really shouldn’t be feeding our children a diet of fairy tales full of spun sugar and makebelieve. They argue that there’s a grim world out there that’s low on enchanted frogs and fairy godmothers to resolve the problems that young people are likely to face. They claim that our job as parents is to cut to the chase with plain honest fiction that prepares kids for a more truthful, if magic-free, future. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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