Hansel and Gretel

Today I bring you a play to work with children, The vocabulary and the extension is adaptated for the chidren English level.  

The story´s name is "Hansel and Gretel

Hansel y Gretel

Father: Good morning children. I forget to buy your biscuits for breakfast

Hansel: Oh I´m hungry. Gretel, Can I bite you your little finger please???

Gretel: It is not a joke. Daddy we can go fish to the river.

Hansel: Ok, but before we can go help daddy chopping to the wood.

Hansel: Gretel! We have been working for two hours!!! What do you think if we go to play?

Gretel: I think it’s fine! Let’s tell daddy!

Hansel: No, he is very busy! We will be back soon, he won’t realize that we are gone.

Gretel: Ok, Let’s go!!!!

THEY PLAYED FOR ONE HOUR, AND WHEN THEY  WERE TIRED, THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO RETURN.

Hansel: Oh!! We are lost!!!

Gretel: Ohhhhhh, no!!!!!

Hansel: Don´t worry. We can pass the night under that tree.

NEXT MORNING....

Hansel: Good morning!! Let´s go.

Gretel: Hansel, I am so tired!!! I dont want to walk anymore!!!

Hansel: SSSSSSSSHHH, Gretel, have you heard that???

Gretel: What are you talking about?

Hansel: Yes... the sound of a bird!!! Look at that!

Gretel: OOOOOH, it’s a big black bird! And it is looking at us!!!

Hansel: Let’s follow the bird!!! Maybe it shows us the way to come back home

Gretel: Ok, Hansel, I think it’s a good idea!!!

THEY FOLLOW THE BIRD UNTIL THE BIRD STOPPED

Gretel: Hansel!!! Look! The bird set down on the roof of that little house.

Hansel: Come on!! Maybe the owners of that house can help us finding our house

WHEN THEY WERE CLOSER TO THE HOUSE, THEY WERE SURPRISED. THE HOUSE WAS MADE OF SWEETS.

Hansel: I can’t believe it!!! This house is plenty of sweets and candies!!! The windows are made of chocolate!!!

Gretel: And the chimeney is a lollipop!!! I want to eat a little bit. Look! The bell is made of strawberry cake!!! Ñam!!!

(DING-DONG)

Witch: Two sweet little children are eating my house.... Ha ha ha!!! I want to eat them!!!

(she OPENS THE DOOR)

Witch: Hello, little children!!! Welcome to my house. Do you want to eat some sweets?? Come in!!!

Hansel and Gretel: Nice!!! We can eat lot of sweets and then we can come back home.

Witch: (Mmmmm.. I am going to give them lot of sweets. They are going to be more and more fat and then... I WILL EAT THEM!
 And force them to do the housework. The children were very afraid.

Witch: You, boy, enter into the cage. And you, girl, take  the broom and clean my house.

Gretel: I don´t want to clean any more. Please let me go.

Witch: oh... you want to go away from me, right? So now you´re going to make me a foot massage.

Witch: I´m hungry. Gretel switch the oven on and bring me your brother.

Hansel: No, no, please! Let me go.

Gretel: Excuse me, I think that the oven is not working.

Witch: Oh, let me see!

Gretel: Now Hansel! Push her into the oven.

Witch: NO!!!!

Father: Ohh my lovely sons! I have been looking for you during many days. Give me a big hug

Hansel: Oh daddy, we have missed you a lot.

Gretel: We love you.

Activities to do witch the children before, durind and after the play.

Activities:

Pretelling:

-         Description: Learn how to describe people and places. They have to name different adjectives to talk about the witch, the children and the witch ´s house. They have to participate in the history inventing the adjectives of the main characters. Each pupil has to say and write on the board an adjective.

During the story:

-         While they are listening the story and we say any of the adjectives on the blackboard, they have to do a gesture linked to each adjective.

After telling:

-         At the first activity, we are going to give them a map. The map shows a few ways to came back home and they have to draw the right way.

-         At the second activity children are going to play a game in pairs. One of them have to guide the other, whose has her/his eyes blended, in order to get one object.