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ACTIVITY: CINDIRELLA’S DRAMATIZATION

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- Narrator: He goes to town and looks for her in every house there is.

Prince: Is the pretty lady here?

Woman 1: No, she is not, and I don´t know where she is.

- Narrator: The prince goes to another house… and another one… and another one. He didn’t find her, he draw a blank (its means you get no response when you ask for something or get not result when you search something) At last, he goes to Cinderella’s house.

Prince: Is the pretty lady here?

Stepmother: Yes, she is. That is my daughter’s shoe…. Daughter, come here.

Stepsister 1: Yes, mother.

Stepmother: Try on the shoe.

- Narrator: Her daughter, who is very fat, tries to put on the shoe.

Stepsister 1: I can’t. This shoe is too small, and my foot is fat. It hurts! This is not my shoe.

- Narrator: Meanwhile, Cinderella is coming down the stairs and says.

Cinderella: That shoe is mine.

Stepsisters: Ha, ha, ha… it is hard to swallow (its means that’s difficult to believe), it’s funny!

Cinderella: Yes, that shoe is mine! And I have the other one.

- Narrator: Suddenly she appears with her pretty dress, and once again she looks very beautiful.

Prince: I love you! I love you! Do you want to marry me?

Cinderella: Yes, I want to marry you.

- Narrator: And now Cinderella and the Prince live happily in the palace.

- THE END –

Idioms of the Day

- hard to swallow

Meaning: Something that someone has said is hard to swallow if it’s difficult to believe.

- a shot in the arm

Meaning: You can say something is a shot in the arm if it gives a person or an organization renewed energy or enthusiasm.

- make up your mind

Meaning: If you make up your mind, you make a decision

- behind the times

Meaning: If someone is behind the times, they are old-fashioned and their ideas are out of date.

- behind the eight ball

Meaning: If you’re behind the eight ball, you’re in a difficult or dangerous position.

- do you the world of good

Meaning: If something does you the world of good, it makes you feel a lot better.

- put the brakes on

Meaning: If you put the brakes on something, you stop it or slow it down.

- a question of time

Meaning: You can say ‘’it’s only a question of time’’ before saying what you think will happen in the future.

- a gut feeling

Meaning: If you have a gut feeling, you sense something about a person or a situation, without knowing why, but you’re sure what you sense is true.

- take the plunge

Meaning: If you take the plunge, you decide to do something you really want to do even though it’s risky and possibly dangerous.

- pull your socks up

Meaning: You can say “pull your socks up” to someone if you think they should improve the way they are behaving or the way they are doing something.

- draw a blank

Meaning: If you draw a blank, you get no response when you ask for something, or get no results when you search for something.

- leave no stone unturned

Meaning: If you leave no stone unturned, you look everywhere in order to find something, or try everything in order to achieve something.

- nothing to write home about

Meaning: If you say something is nothing to write home about, you mean it isn’t very important or it isn’t very good.

- add insult to injury

Meaning: Someone adds insult to injury if they say or do something to upset you a second time, after you’ve already been upset somehow.

Idioms of the Day

- hard to swallow

Meaning: Something that someone has said is hard to swallow if it’s difficult to believe.

Example: His excuse for coming late was a bit hard to swallow, don’t you think?

- a shot in the arm

Meaning: You can say something is a shot in the arm if it gives a person or an organization renewed energy or enthusiasm.

Example: After a terrible start, the team was ready to quit. But after getting a shot in the arm from their coach’s half-time talk, they came back and won the game.

- make up your mind

Meaning: If you make up your mind, you make a decision.

Example: Is Kathy’s having trouble making her mind, she can’t decide what to do.

- behind the times

Meaning: If someone is behind the times, they are old-fashioned and their ideas are out of date.

Example: My Uncle Tom is always so far behind the times that he never knows what young people are interested in.

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