Thursday 22 October 2009

A Chinese Rendition: The Fairytale

A few of my classes were a week ahead of all the others so I decided to do a lesson for them on fairytales. I started with the basics (which they knew) – prince, princess, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, etc. Then I asked them to create their own fairytale. Well, I got some pretty hilarious stories. See below:

MY FAVORITE: “Long long ago, in a distant land called Karleneland a prince lived in a tower. He was very sexy and beautiful. He lived with a bad dragon. The prince wasn’t allowed to go out of the tower. One million years later Duck, another prince, who was very cool and handsome found the tower and the sexy prince. He fell in love with the prince. So, Duck went to the tower and fought with the dragon. Finally, the dragon killed Duck and married the sexy prince.”
Did you think this was a mistake? Did the students mean a princess was locked in a tower? NOPE. They meant a prince. It’s a homosexual love story. Yeah…my thoughts exactly.

And another: “Long long ago in a big house a girl was born but her parents died and her grandmother was very bad. She sent the girl to an enchantress and the enchantress was also very bad. The girl became a butterfly then she met a prince. She followed the prince. The prince was very surprised because the butterfly spoke to him. She told him all of her experiences and the prince was very angry. He found the enchantress and beat her. Then the butterfly became a girl and they were married and had a very good life.

There’s more: “Long long ago a prince and princess lived together on a small island. One day the prince got hurt and a witch was him so the witch helped the handsome prince. After a month the prince got healthy. During this time the prince fell in love with the witch. At the same time the witch loved the prince very much. So, the prince dropped the princess and went to another country with the witch.

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