Studentin:

Okay. Somebody else? [Sie nimmt einen Zettel in die Hand.] Okay. I didn’t do anything at all because I had to go to university and prepare this lesson. [Sie schaut auf die Zettel in ihre Hand.] Because today we are going to do something very special. We are going to talk about a special topic. But I am not going to tell you what it is. I want you to find out for yourselves. And there I prepared a short text. It’s really short and you have to listen very very carefully and try to find out what our topic for today is. Okay? [Sie liest von dem Zettel ab.] So today we are going to talk about a special kind of story. In this kind of story is usually about people in history. But often these kinds of stories are not completely true. Writers have taken historical events and changed them just a bit to make the story more interesting or exciting. Or maybe to show the difference between right and wrong more clearly. These special stories that we are going to talk about today have usually very colourful characters like kings and queens or magical characters like wizard. There are usually heroes, the good guys, and the bad guys, villains, who have dangerous fights and of course, the good guy usually wins. Popular heroes are often brave knights, but sometimes they’re just normal men who do brave things to help other people. Villains, the bad guys, can be very dangerous criminals or very powerful people who use their power and very bad way. They’re also more modern examples of these special kind of stories like for example Sherlock Holmes, a private detective who solved mysterious crimes. Sherlock Holmes never lived at all but people all over the world love to think that he did. [Sie legt den Zettel auf dem Lehrertisch ab.] Alright. Who has an idea what we are going to talk about today? What kind of story am I talking about? It is similar, a similar word in German, so it should not be too hard though. [Die SuS reagieren nicht.] It is sometimes true but sometimes it isn’t. It’s about historical characters like famous character or queens. Yeah … And these kind of stories exist in different countries, in different cultures. What could it be? [Die SuS reagieren lange nicht. Eine Schülerin meldet sich. Die Studentin schaut auf den Sitzplan.] Yes, Olivia?

Olivia:

Maybe a fairytale?

Studentin:

A fairytale, good idea. That could be it. Yes. [Sie schaut auf den Sitzplan.] [?] [Sie zeigt auf eine Schülerin.]

SchülerinA:

Hm, maybe legend?

Studentin:

Legend. Very good. That’s exactly what we are going to talk about today. And … to start I have prepare a little worksheet for you … [Sie holt einen Stapel Zettel aus einem Ordner.] about typical characters in legends. [Sie zeigt der Klasse die Arbeitsblätter.] Because usually if you talk about legends, we have some characters that are always the same. And therefore here on the left [Sie zeigt auf die linke Seite des Arbeitsblatts.] I have a list of these characters, for example king or queen. And then in the middle [Sie zeigt auf die mittlere Spalte des Arbeitsblattes] there are some definitions and on the right there are some typical pictures of these characters. [Sie zeigt auf die rechte Seite des Arbeitsblattes.] Of course, all of them are a bit mixed up. Otherwise it wouldn’t be fun for you and I want you to take two or maybe three minutes to find the matching definition and picture for every character. Yeah, work on your own. It shouldn’t take too long. [Sie teilt die Arbeitsblätter aus. Die SuS fangen leise an zu reden.]