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The Snow Queen

This story tells of two children, Kay and Gerda, and their encounter with the Snow Queen. Kay is taken by the Snow Queen to her ice palace, and Gerda embarks on a journey to find and save him. After travelling and with the help of others, Gerda finds Kay and saves him from the Snow Queen.

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The Snow Queen

This story tells of two children, Kay and Gerda, and their encounter with the Snow Queen. Kay is taken by the Snow Queen to her ice palace, and Gerda embarks on a journey to find and save him. After travelling and with the help of others, Gerda finds Kay and saves him from the Snow Queen.

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Summary of the story
This traditional fairy tale tells the story of two children, a kind Granny and a
nasty Snow Queen. The boy, Kay, becomes mean and nasty and then
disappears. He has followed the horrible Snow Queen to her palace of ice.
His sister, Gerda looks for him and after some time travelling, finds him. She
saves him from the Snow Queen. Kay changes back into a friendly person
and they return to Granny.
Background to the story
Originally published in 1845, this story is one of Hans Christian Andersons 168 stories. It appeared
first in English in a collection of fairy tales by H. P. Paull in 1872.
Penguin Young Readers Factsheets
The Snow Queen
Teachers Notes
Level
4

Pearson Education Limited 2000. Visit our website at www.penguinreaders.com


Making use of the Reader
Identikit. Write a list of adjectives used in the
story on the board or on a poster. (e.g. wicked,
ugly, horrible, mean, nasty, warm, kind, cold, sad,
greedy, happy, beautiful, lovely, hard, cruel,
dangerous, small, brave, huge, scared, unhappy,
safe.) Discuss them. Now the pupils have to
decide which adjectives best describe the four
main characters. They should draw a picture of
each and write the adjectives. (e.g. four for each
character). Can they now find at least six pairs of
opposites from the list? (e.g. warm cold). Who
can find the most?
Game. This is an extension activity from the
Identikit Who am I? Played in pairs but
demonstrated first with the whole class. (e.g. I am
mean, cold, wicked and cruel. Who am I?)
Again, the pupils refer to the list of adjectives.
Collecting pictures. Pupils may collect pictures
of examples of different weather and stick them
on card. The pictures could be of snow, clouds,
sun and moon.
Design a hat. Design one for a good, kind
person, then draw one for a mean and nasty
person.Write why you have drawn it as it is.
Make a list of different forms of transport
that people in the class have used and then look
at some of the pictures of other forms of
transport. A sleigh, boat and reindeer are used in
the book.
Activity. How many animals can the pupils find
in the book? They should make a list in a timed
period, for example 3 minutes.
Topics and themes
Animals. Animals feature strongly in this story.
Horses, reindeer and a black bird are used for
transport. Gerda talks to birds and a rabbit on
the farm, and her Granny has a cat on her lap.
Clothes. Hats and scarves, and other warm
clothes to wear in snow could begin this topic.
Magic. In this story, a piece of mirror in the eye
from a troll can change a personality. Animals fly,
and talk.
Senses. Feeling cold, tiredness, smelling roses,
crying are part of the story.
Transport. Pupils can locate Denmark, Sweden
and Finland in their atlas or on a globe.
Seasons. The seasons appear in the story and
could be the basis for work on weather
language.
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Teachers Notes
Penguin Young Readers Factsheets
The Snow Queen
Level
4

Pearson Education Limited 2000. Visit our website at www.penguinreaders.com


During watching and listening whole
class prediction. Play the video or audio
cassette story through in its entirety. The second
time through, stop just before a dramatic event
in the story (such as page 23, when Gerda
discovers the boy is not her brother) and ask the
pupils to tell you what happens next, then view
or listen to see if they were right.
Simultaneous reading and listening in
groups. This will help the pupils with
pronunciation and intonation.
The pupils can join in with some of the sounds,
after hearing the actor speak, e.g. the black
birds kerrawk!
Record the pupils dramatizing the story on
audio or video cassette.
Activity 1. The pupils will write about the part
of the story they liked. They could draw it too.
Activity 2. This is a pair-work activity. Pupils
should use a pencil only. Check that the pupils
understand all the vocabulary then ask one in
each pair to draw a picture of these things
across the grid. Then this partner hides his
picture from his partner and describes what
he/she is to draw using the gird references
such as draw the bird in B4. When they are
finished, see if the pictures look the same.
Activity 3. Cut out the sentence boxes and
then put them in order of the story.
Alternatively lines can be draw from one to
the other to connect them.
Activity 4. The pupils will fill the circles with
vocabulary, for example under Transport, they
may put reindeer, sleigh, bird. Some of the
words will belong to more than one circle (for
example, the black bird belongs in both
transport and animals). If they see an animal
but dont know the word, they could draw the
picture and find out the word they need.
In the back of the Reader
Before you read
1. Look at the cover together and discuss it.
There is no really right or wrong answer as the
pupils are really only predicting what will be in
the book.
2. Sledge, pages 11 & 12; a red rose, pages 17
& 30; a rope, page, 20; a troll, page 3; a whip,
page 11; a sleigh, page 11 & 12; a reindeer,
pages 5,24,25,26,29; a mirror, page 3.
3. Kay and Gerda.
After you read
2. a. False; b. True; c. True; d. False; e. False; f.
False.
3. There is no correct answer for this question,
but it is an interesting one to discuss with groups
or the whole class.
In the factsheet
3. d. g. h. a. f. e.
4. Some of the words are:
Transport, Sledge, sleigh, reindeer, bird, boat
Animals, Cat, rabbit, reindeer, bird, horse
People, Granny, Gerda, Kay, Alice, Snow Queen
Places to live, Farm, tent, palace, house
Answers to the activities
Notes on using the activities in the factsheet
Using the accompanying video and audio cassette
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Pupils Activities
Level
4
The Snow Queen
Name.............................................................................................................
Activity 1
P H OT OC OP I A B L E
Penguin Young Readers Factsheets

Pearson Education Limited 2000. Visit our website at www.penguinreaders.com


Write about the part of the story you liked best, make a drawing too.
Activity 2
The Grid Game. Play this with a friend.
Now your friend is going to draw your picture without seeing it. Tell your friend where the
parts are on your grid. Do your grids look the same?
On the grid draw:
the bird
the sledge
the whip
the mirror
the boat
cake
the rose
A B C D E
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2
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Penguin Young Readers Factsheets
Pupils Activities
Activity 4
Each circle is a different word
family. Find as many words in
the book as you can to go in
the four word families. Write
them in the circles.
Level
4
The Snow Queen
Name.............................................................................................................
P H OT OC OP I A B L E

Pearson Education Limited 2000. Visit our website at www.penguinreaders.com


Activity 3
Cut out the sentences. Put them in order.
a. Gerda rested in Alices cottage.
c. There was a huge, black bird.
e. Gerda arrived at the
Snow Queens palace.
g. Kay got into the sleigh with
the Snow Queen.
b. Kay had a piece of glass in his eye.
d. The mirror broke.
f. Gerda passed the night in a farm.
h. Gerda went off in Grannys boat to
find Kay.
Transport
Animals
Places to
live
People

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