All around the world children love listening to and reading fairy tales in their mother tongue. Whatever the reason, fairy tales provide both children and teachers with a familiar starting point from which to explore stories in a second language. This kit contains a variety of resources, from text and tasks to illustrations, flashcards and presentations, for you to download and use in your classroom. You can also find computer based interactive materials for students on British Council's LearnEnglish Kids website.

Downloads - The downloads are divided into five sections

• Activities - is a collection of materials related to the story

• Chants - is a collection of spoken drill type activities

• Flashcards - is to help you build up vocabulary and support understanding

• Play - helps you to use the materials to produce a short play

• Story - helps you to tell the story

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Activities - is a collection of materials related to the story

• Introduction - tells you how you can use the materials in class

• Charades

• Big or Little?

• Big, Bad Wolf

• Bingo

• Categorise words

• Colour in the characters

• Colour in Little Red Riding Hood

• Label Little Red Riding Hood

• Match characters and descriptions

• Match character’s speech

• My Little Red Riding Hood story

• Picture dictionary

• Picture wordsearch

• Story review

• Vocabulary checklist

• Wanted posters

• What can you see?

• What have I got?

• What’s the time, Mr Wolf?

Chants - is a collection of spoken drill type activities

• Let’s go to Grandma’s

• Please don’t play in the wood

• Tummy, teeth and tail

• What a good girl!

• Wow Whee!

Flashcards - is to help you build up vocabulary and support understanding

• Working with flashcards (notes for teachers)

• Characters

• Body

• Clothes

• Food

• Home

• Little Red Riding Hood

• Wood

• Word cue cards

Play - helps you to use the materials to produce a short play

• Working with plays (notes for teachers)

• Making masks (black and white)

• Making masks (colour)

• Play - Version 1

• Play - Version 2

• Play - Version 3

Story - helps you to tell the story

• Working with stories (notes for teachers)

• Story A4 flashcards

• Story flashcards on PowerPoint

• Story filmstrip

• Storyboard

About BritLit
This is the first in a short series of kits for primary school learners of English. It was produced to respond to the initiative of governments, including the Portuguese government, to lower the age at which English is taught in state schools.

Carolyne Ardron and Sue Clarke. Illustrations by Paul Millard