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SIMPLE PAST IN FAIRY TALES � Exercise 1: Read the sentences and decide which ones are from the story of Cinderella and which ones are from the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Fill in the gap the right name choosing among the following ones: Prince � Fairy Godmother � Red Riding Hood � Wolf � Grandmother �lived with her mother in a house near the forest. �lived with her two horrible ugly sister �did the housework � her sisters went out every evening ��s �lived in a house in the middle of the forest One evening ��s sisters went to a ball at the palace. One day ��s mother asked her to take some things to her �stayed at home � she didn�t have a dress. When �was in the forest, she met a When �was in the kitchen, her �came and gave her a beautiful dress and a mask �said: � Now you can go to the ball. But come home�before midnight �asked: �Where are you going?� and �said �To my �s house� �went to the ball and danced with �fell in love with the beautiful girl in the mask �immediately ran to the little house, jumped on �and ate her. Then �put on ��s nightdress and went to bed Then the clock struck twelve. It was midnight! �hurried home but she lost her shoe. �arrived at the house and saw �in bed in a nightdress �wanted to find the girl in the mask. He came to ��s house with the shoe. �didn�t recognize�.�She said �What big teeth you�ve got!� �jumped on �but, at that moment, a hunter arrived and killed him. �saw that it was ��s shoe and he asked her to marry him. With his knife, the hunter opened ��s stomach and �came out. �married �and they were happy for the rest of their lives. � Exercise 2: Write the base form near the simple past of these verbs taken from the text. Lived Did Went Asked Stayed Met Was Gave Said Danced � Fell in love Ran Jumped Ate Put on Struck Hurried Came Lost Arrived Saw Wanted Killed Were � Exercise 3 Choose if the words given below are related to the story of Cinderella or the one of Red Riding Hood: a little house CinderellaRed Riding Hood � ball CinderellaRed Riding Hood � bed CinderellaRed riding Hood � clock CinderellaRed Riding Hood � dance CinderellaRed Riding Hood � dress CinderellaRed Riding Hood � eat CinderellaRed Riding Hood � Fairy Godmother CinderellaRed Riding Hood � Grandmother CinderellaRed Riding Hood � housework�CinderellaRed Riding hood � hunter CinderellaRed Riding Hood � jumped CinderellaRed Riding Hood � kill CinderellaRed Riding Hood � kitchen CinderellaRed Riding Hood � knife CinderellaRed Riding Hood � marry CinderellaRed Riding Hood � mask CinderellaRed Riding Hood � midnight CinderellaRed Riding Hood � nightdress CinderellaRed Riding Hood � palace CinderellaRed Riding Hood � Prince CinderellaRed Riding Hood � shoe CinderellaRed Riding Hood � Sisters CinderellaRed Riding hood � stomach CinderellaRed Riding Hood � teeth CinderellaRed Riding Hood � Wolf CinderellaRed Riding Hood � � � � �