Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms Johnson.

And I'm going to teaching you English today.

In today's lesson we're going to read and analyse the opening section of Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne.

We're going to start today's lesson by finding out about the author Anthony Browne, of this version of Hansel and Gretel.

Then we're going to do a recap recheck.

This is always really important because it helps us know how to work out what was unsure of how to work them out and understand the meaning of those words.

Then we're going to read the opening section of the fairy tale and then we're going to do some predictions for the next section of the fairy tale.

In the lesson today, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, or a pen and your brain.

I really want you to be thinking throughout the lessons today.

This is also a really good time.

If there is a TV on or if the window is open and it's noisy.

So just pause the video and sort of any distractions because it's really important that you can focus on the lesson to pause the video here and then press play when you're ready to resume.

Okay, let's get started.

So we're going to start by doing an introduction to Anthony Browne and an introduction to fairy tales.

So Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale and it was originally included in Grimm's fairy tales which was like a book of fairy tales.

They often were quite dark fairy tales so they often had a bit of a dark twist to them.

The fairy tale is a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands.

They're not based on true events.

They are made up stories.

They often get retold over time as well.

So often they are very old stories that have been retold and retold and retold.

I wonder if you've already heard of Hansel and Gretel and you know, a little bit about the story already.

Now Anthony Browne has decorated his own version of Hansel and Gretel.

And you might know Anthony Browne for some of his other books that you studied in school.

He is generally a picture book author.

So he uses and creates really interesting illustrations throughout his books.

I'm a really big fan of Anthony Browne.

And I hope today that after reading this fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, you might be interested in picking up another one of his books.

And this is Anthony Browne.

So here is an image of him.

So you can picture what the author is like.

And as I said before, he really focuses on his illustrations and using things like colour and using things like setting to cry and create meaning throughout his books.

So Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale.

Now that is a genre that you might have heard of before and I'm sure we can all think of a fairy tale in our heads.

So I want to know what fairy tales do you already know? So which ones have you heard? Which ones have you read, perhaps you've watched them.

And what features did they have? Now by features, what I mean by that is, I mean what things did they have in common? If you think of two fairy tales, what did both of them have in them that perhaps linked to each other? So this is what your fairy tales tend to be like.

And how do we know something as a fairy tale as opposed to just a story.

So what I'd like to do is to mind map your ideas here.

So pause the video and press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done, so I'm going to show you now everything I know about fairy tales.

Now, this is only brief.

It's only the kind of key things I know already.

And I wonder if you've got any of the same if you don't have any of the same then that's absolutely okay.

Today we are learning about fairy tales.

So I've said some of the fairy tales I've heard of when I was younger and I've heard of retold myself, but these ones, The Princess and the Pea now I've always remembered The Princess and the Pea about the princess who sleeps her to sleep on a little piece all these mattresses to see if she can feel it.

That's one of my favourite fairy tales actually.

I've also remember The Ugly Duckling and Snow White and The Seven Dwarves as well.

That's always been one that's one at Disney remade.

You might have seen the film with that one.

I also really found that an entertaining fairy tale.

And then I was trying to think about now what happens in lots of these fairy tales? What type of things do I know that very have know that fairy tales have? Now I kind of knew already that fairy tales are fantasy and have make-believe sections in them.

Sometimes they are set in real places.

It's not always imagined new lands but they have characters in them.

They have settings in them that make believe and fantasy.

So you might be set in a castle with an evil stepmother, witch or an evil queen.

Throughout the fairy tale, there is often good versus evil.

So you can often identify the good characters and the evil characters or the ones that those authors expected us to see as good and to see as evil.

And there's usually a conflict between good and evil in fairy tales.

There's always imaginary or magical characters.

So there's usually witches.

There's usually things like princesses and queens and princes or frogs that turn into a prince.

There might be berries.

As other are in sleeping beauty.

There might be a beast like in Beauty and the Beast.

They also have a clear story structure.

So by that, I mean, they often have an opening, a buildup with a climax where there's a problem where the evil perhaps is in control and the good has to fight evil.

And then they always have a resolution and rough often very very often actually the resolution is usually a happy ending where the good wins they usually set an enchanted setting.

So words that speak or in lands where there's castle and forest that grow.

And there's often a lesson taught.

To the main character often learn something in a fairy tale.

So now we know a little bit more about fairy tales.

We're going to read and think about Hansel and Gretel as a fairy tale and how it fits his idea of a fairy tale.

Now he's one of the oldest fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel and it's been around a long, long, long time.

So it's really quite an interesting one as well.

It's a little bit dark, perhaps.

So if you might get scared by this it might be worthwhile pausing the video and asking somebody to watch it with you but it's just a tale.

Remember it's only made up.

So before we do any reading of the story we're going to look at some vocabulary.

This is always really important before we read something, because sometimes without reading there might be words that we're not sure of.

And sometimes we just need to know what those words are because that helps us with our understanding of what we read.

Even adults.

When they read a book they can sometimes find words that they don't know.

And so I'm going to give you strategy to help you with that today.

Before we do that, there are just some words I'm just going to tell you these are words that you're going to read and listen to in a minute.

And I'm just going to tell you what they mean.

And the first one is famine say off to me famine and that's when and so if famine is a noun and it might hit a country, for instance where it might hit the town and a famine is when there is extreme lack of food.

And this could be due to events happening in the town.

It could be due to bad weather.

So an extreme lack of food, a famine, famine and it would affect perhaps a whole town.

So it's not just an individual that would affect.

Lots of people.

Woodcutter say, wood cutter.

A woodcutter is just someone who chops wood as their job.

And that's all you need to know for that.

It's just the job.

Often we can sometimes find that we're not sure what these jobs are.

If it's a job and you know you don't really need to understand it.

It's just someone's job,.

And then there's word, we're going to come across.

Now, when I resume my reading of Hansel and Gretel myself, there was a word that I wasn't sure of and that word was fretting.

Say fretting.

And so, it came in Hansel and Gretel in this section "The woodcutter lay fretting in bed at night, tossing and turning." Now I could just carry on and think, well do I really need to know that word? But I think this word is quite key to understanding how the customer is feeling at the time.

And so it's important not to do this too much.

You must pause yourself when you read and use a strategy to help you understand a word that you're not sure of, because the more words you learn the better your reading will be and the better your writing will be.

So let's have a go now.

This is the strategy that I want you to use when I read the text.

So if you get stuck on a word you just pause the video and you follow my strategies I'm going to show you now.

So I went to start by skipping out the word in a sentence.

This might help me understand what type of what it is.

Is it a verb? Is it a noun? Is it an adjective? So what's the word class of the word.

The word can late hmm in bed at night tossing and turning.

It sounds like this is a verb that's already helping me.

I noticed that the woodcutter is doing.

Now I'm going to read around the word.

Are there any other clues that might help me.

Now I can see is something that he's doing at night and he's tossing and turning at the same time.

Now I know what turning in bed is.

I know what tossing in bed is, is when you kind of roll around and you can't get comfortable.

Now I'm going to use that to help me.

I'm going to think to myself why do people toss and turn at night? Why do I use you toss and turn at night? Well, usually it's because of worrying about something.

It can be something small or it can be something big that I'm worrying about.

And so I lay there just worrying.

So now I've got an idea.

I'm going to try and replace that fretting with the word, worrying.

The woodcutter lay worrying in bed at night, tossing and turning.

I think that works.

And when I read the rest of the texts and I read around the rest of the text I would find out that he's worrying about a famine that hit the town.

So use this strategy in your reading to help you understand words that you are not sure of.

And here we go, fretting means to worry.

And there's a picture there enhancing Gretel to help me.

Now pictures in books also really helped me with my vocabulary.

We can use them for clues.

We're not going to be opening section of Hansel and Gretel without a Anthony Browne adaptation.

As I read this today, I want you just to listen, carefully and I'm going to do a model feed and this is how you should be reading.

When you read to yourself I'm going to think out loud for you today.

So, "At the edge of a large forest lived a poor woodcutter" now I remember that a woodcutter is a job.

This is his job, "with his two children and their stepmother.

The boy's name was Hansel and the girl's name was Gretel.

The family was always very poor but when a terrible famine came to the land, they could find nothing to eat." I remembering the word famine means that there's a lack of food.

And so for us to look at the pictures I can see that they're all looking quite sad.

Now I would assume they are sad because there is a lack of food and they are hungry.

If I also look at the house inside and looking at Antony brand's illustration here I can really see that the house is run down.

And this shows me that perhaps they are poor.

And so Anthony Browne illustrations always really help.

And you should also look at if any this clues in his drawings too he often sets clues about the story in his pictures.

"The woodcutter lay fretting in bed".

Now I know what fretting means.

That means worrying.

And by looking at that picture I can see he's worrying.

"The woodcutter fretting in bed at night, tossing and turning he sighed and said to his wife, that's the stepmother.

"What's going to happen to us? How can we feed our children when we haven't enough for ourselves?" "I tell you what?" Said his wife, "Early tomorrow morning, we'll take the children out into the thickest part of the forest where make them a fire and give them each a little piece of bread.

Then we'll go to our work.

Then leave them alone.

They will never find their way home and we'll be rid of them." That's quite a strange thing for a stepmother to say, isn't it? She sounds like she wants to get rid of the child children so she can have all the food herself.

Does it sound like a very kind person? "No, I won't do it." He said, "How could I bring myself to leave my children alone in the forest? The wild animals would soon come and eat them.

You've bought at his wife and we must offer die of hunger.

You might as well cut the planks of our coffins.

She gave him no peace until he consented".

Consented means agreed.

"But I agreed, which means worried for the poor children." He said "Hunger had kept the children away too.

And they heard what they stepmother said to their father, Gretel quite bitterly said to Hansel, it's all over for us now.

Quite Gretel whispered, "Don't be upset.

I find a way to save us.

And so what Hansel dive in evening he goes out and he picks up in the middle of the night, lots of white pebbles.

And then he starts to lay a path behind him.

When they go into the forest.

This is the next day.

When the family walk into the forest you can see the stepmother there leading them.

Hansel is just dropping and you can see him in the picture here.

White pebbles go all the way along.

Now why is he doing that? He's doing that.

So he has a path to follow because he knows what they're planning to do to Gretel and him.

So he's leading, leaving a path for himself and for Gretel.

So then when they get lost in the first they can find their way back home.

And also by looking at this picture you can see that the stepmother is leading the group.

When they were deep in the forest, their father said, "Hansel and Gretel, you're going collect some wood and I'll make a fire to keep you warm." The children gathered some brush wood into a great park.

And when it was blazing, woman said "Now lay down by the fire children and have a good rest.

We're going further into the forest to chop wood.

When we finished, we've come back fetch you." Now the reader knows, and Hansel and Gretel know that is actually a lie.

They're not going to come back and get them.

Hansel and Gretel sat by the fire.

And at midday, they both eat their bread because they could hear the blows of an act.

They thought their father was nearby, but it was not an axe.

It was a, but she had fast into it with a tree so that the wind blew it to and from.

So the father did this.

So they thought that they were nearby.

But what actually they did is just leave her hanging from a tree and it was knocking against the tree.

So it sounded like someone was cutting words.

Remember he's a woodcutter.

"After Hansel and Gretel had been sitting for a long time.

The eyes closed with weariness and they fell asleep.

When their woke, it was very dark.

Gretel began to cry saying "How should we ever get out of the wood?" Hansel comforted her with waiting until to the moon is up then soon find the way.

Once a full moon had risen Hansel to cause sister by the hand and followed the pebble." Remember, I said to you, he put out a pebble path which shown in the moonlight and show them the way.

"The children walked all through the night.

And at daybreak reached home.

They knocked at the door.

And when the stepmother looked at or saw who it was, she said, "You wicked children.

Why did you see for so long in the forest? We thought you were never coming home." But the father was glad he had broken his heart to leave them all behind." So this is just the opening part, Hansel and Gretel.

And we can see Talos in this image of the stepmother here that she looks perhaps maybe she is the evil character in the book.

I wonder what you think.

And I really want to know what you think is going to happen next and Hansel and Gretel.

So what do you think the stepmother will do next and why? So she's pretended to be happy to see them.

And she's pretended that it was their fault that they got lost in the woods and that she had didn't have a plan to, she doesn't know that Gretel and Hansel know what the plan was and they overheard her talking to her husband.

So I wonder what she's going to do now that they've returned.

How would she get away with it again? So what I'd like to do here is that like you to pause the video and write a sentence and I want you to say, I think the stepmother will because and predict what you think she might do next.

So press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done.

I can't wait to hear what you thought and we're going to be exploring this and finding out what she does next in the following lessons.

And we're going to be analysing the text a little bit closer.

So congratulations.

You have completed your lesson for the day.

I would like you just to have a think.

What is your initial response to the text? Did you like it or do you not like it? I think some people might not like it at all.

Some children might find it a little bit scary perhaps.

Or does it really interest you? Does it make you excited to find out what happens next? So I want you just to pause the video and say out loud what you thought about the opening chapter of Hansel and Gretel by Anthony Browne and then press play when you're ready to resume.

Well done, it's done so congratulations.

You've completed your lesson day and I see you again, next time.