Learn English with 6 Famous Fairy Tales in the United States
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Hi, everybody!
Welcome back to Top Words.
My name is Alisha, and today we’re going to
be talking about the Top 6 American Fairy Tales.
So let’s go!
Sleeping Beauty
The first fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty is a very popular story.
Essentially, the story is that there is this
beautiful girl who is asleep for a very long
time and she can only be awakened by a kiss
from a prince, or by her true love, something
I’m not sure about the qualifications for
the person who kisses her to wake her up,
but that’s what it is.
In a sentence, “I didn’t watch the movie
Sleeping Beauty very much when I was a kid.”
That is true.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White is the story of another princess
and she lives in the woods with Seven Dwarfs.
Dwarfs are small people.
I don’t know, depending on the story, they
have powers sometimes, they’ve like different,
I don’t know, attributes.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the
first ever full-color Disney movie.”
It’s truth, look it up.
Jack and the Beanstalk
The next fairy tale is Jack and the Beanstalk.
Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic story,
Jack is a young boy who lives in a village
and he sells his family’s cow for three magic
beans.
The magic beans he plants and then a huge
Beanstalk grows, so a giant plant grows and
he climbs the plant up to the cloud region.
He climbs a plant up and he finds this land
where Giants live and then he steals from
the Giants, and tries to take it back down
to his home.
In a sentence, “Jack and the Beanstalk was
adapted into a movie called Into The Woods
a few years ago.”
Also true.
Cinderella
The next story is Cinderella.
Cinderella is like another classic story from
Brothers Grimm; the Brothers Grimm had the
very dark version of Cinderella.
The story of Cinderella is, Cinderella is
one of three sisters, I believe, and she’s
made to do all of the cleaning in her household,
she’s kind of pushed to the side; but she
has a chance one night to go to a ball, a
formal dance, where she meets a prince and
he really likes her, but she has to get home
before midnight because she’s under a spell
that makes her, that gives her like a beautiful
dress only until midnight.
But when she leaves his house she loses her
shoe and somehow her shoe remains after the
spell has finished, the prince searches the
country looking for the woman whose foot fits
the shoe, so that is the story of Cinderella.
My good story about Cinderella, one of my
shoes fell off when I was at a party recently,
like, last year and the guy behind me saw
it happened, I was walking upstairs and my
shoes fell off my foot, so he grabbed it and
put it back on my foot, and every time he
sees me now he called me Cinderella, that
is true.
“Cinderella is a classic fairy tale.”
The Tortoise and the Hare
So the next story, or I guess not so much
a fairy tale but classic story, is The Tortoise
and the Hare.
So in this very simple story there’s a tortoise,
a turtle, a kind of turtle, and a hare, which
is an old word for rabbit; turtle and rabbit.
So they’re competing in a race in The Tortoise
and the Hare story, the hare runs ahead, the
rabbit runs ahead of the tortoise, so far
ahead that he thinks he’s already won the
race, so he lays down to take a nap; and in
that time period the tortoise catches up and
passes the rabbit and wins the race eventually.
So it’s a great reminder that you should not
take for granted your successes.
In a sentence, “The Tortoise and the hare
is a great reminder about diligence.”
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast, the story is that this
beautiful woman goes to live in a magical
castle.
The master of the castle is a beast, and over
time she slowly makes him more friendly, she
slowly makes him into a better person and
then at the end of the story they become friends,
in a relationship, I guess.
He moves out of, like, beast-zone and then
into friendzone, and then into, like, boyfriend
zone with her, I guess.
Out of beast zone, wow that’s the thing I
said.
Beast zone.
“I have always wanted the library that’s
in the Beauty in the Beast Disney movie.”
So that’s the end of the Top 6 American Fairy
Tales.
Maybe you have an interesting fairy tale in
your country?
Please leave us a comment and let us know
more about it!
Thanks very much for watching this episode,
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