HANSEL AND GRETEL STORY

HANSEL AND GRETEL 

STORYTELLING ELEMENTS: HANSEL AND GRETEL

HANSEL AND GRETEL
PLOT	Once upon a time… 1. A poor woodcutter and his wife had two children named Hansel and Gretel. 2. Their mother died when they were young. Hansel and Gretel were very sad. Soon their father remarried but their stepmother was very cruel. One day, she took the children deep into the forest and left them there. 3. Clever Hansel had some breadcrumbs in his pocket and had dropped them on the way so that they could find their way back home. The birds ate all the crumbs and they couldn’t find the path that led back home. 4. Both of them ate the house, because they were so hungry. Now, a wicked witch lived there. When she saw Hansel and Gretel, she wanted to eat them.  5. The witch decided to make a soup out of Hansel and eat him first. 6. She grabbed the chil­dren and locked them in a cage. The witch decided to make a soup out of Hansel and eat him first. 7. The witch began boiling a huge pot of water for the soup. Just then, Gretel crept out of her cage. She gave the wicked witch a mighty push from behind and the witch fell into the boiling water. She howled in pain and died instantly. 8.  Hansel and Gretel found treasure lying around the cottage. They carried it home with them.  Their stepmother had died and their father wel­comed them back with tears of joy. They never went hungry again!
CHARACTERS	Main Characters Hansel and Gretel The witch Second Characters The birds
SETTINGS	The Forest The candy house At the beginning the story is developed in the forest when Hansel and Gretel are lost, then the rest of the story is developed in the candy house.
STRUCTURE POINT	The lesson of this story is do not talk to or take anything from a stranger and do not go into a stranger's house because it could be dangerous and you can risk yourself too much.

LITERATURE IS MOTIVATING

Literature influences our lives since we were children. Children literature is not the exception, as we saw with Folk and Fairy Tales, those stories give us moral lessons in order to form people with different values. 

Also, literature helps people to develop their language skills, for example reading can give you new vocabulary for expressing yourself, and having strong arguments when you are talking. It develops our minds. 

Another important aspect, the imagination is developed. You can visit different places, meet new people, and even create different ends for the stories you read. All these benefits can give you the literature, that is what literature is motivating.

As teachers, we must include literature  by reading for teaching grammar, it is a funny language teaching methodoly   and the students will learn grammar rules directly from their use and there is another great point, you express yourself taking into account what you have read, and what you have heard. The more you read, the merrier you communicate your ideas.