Fairytales

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Which fairytales do
you know?

How would you describe a fairytale?
What is a fairytale? Give a few key words.

A fairytale is a folktale that uses magic and fantasy, it starts with the sentence: 'once upon a time' and always takes place in a unknown land and time. Most of the time they 'live happily ever after'.

Wikipedia

Fairy tale characters

Watch the two fragments and try to remeber as many fairytale characters as possible. 

Every fairytale has a few elements:

• It usually starts with: 'once upon a time'  
  
• A hero 
  
• A quest/task/desire 
  
• A lesson 
  
• A villian   (the bad guy)
  
• A moment where all seems lost  
  
• There is an element of magic/a transformation
  

You have to write your own

Mashed up fairytale

use between 300- 400 words