Explain literary reference in the following phrases. Comment on the reference.

1. Diana and her younger brother Charles, like the children Hansel and Gretel …

2. Sarah’s youngest sister Diana, Cinderella, was off to the ball.

3. Like the husband in another fairy-story “ Blue beard ”…..

4. “They lived happily ever-after.”

5. … what happened to Snow-white and Cinderella after their weddings?

1. Hansel and Gretel the chief characters in the fairy story of that name by the Grimm Brothers. Hansel, a boy, and Gretel, a girl, are left alone in a forest. They discover a house made of gingerbread and belonging to a wicked witch. The witch wants to eat them, but Gretel pushes the witch into an oven and the children go home with her riches.

2. Cinderella a young woman who is treated like a slave be her stepmother and two ugly sisters. One day Prince Charming invites all the ladies to the ball but Cinderella cannot go as she has no dress. Her Fairy Godmother waves her magic wand and produces a dress and glass slippers. She changes six mice into horses and a pumpkin into a coach. … The word "cinderella" has come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect.

3. Bluebeard is a wealthy aristocrat, feared because of his "frightfully ugly" blue beard. He had been married several times, but no one knew what had become of his wives. He married a younger daughter of his neighbour.One day Bluebeard announced that he had to leave the country for a while; he gave over all the keys of the chateau to his new wife, including the key to one small room that she was forbidden to enter. He then went away and left the house in her hands. Overcome with the desire to see what the forbidden room held, she and her visiting sisters opened the room and discovered the room's horrible secret: Its floor was awash with blood, and the dead bodies of her husband's former wives hung from hooks on the walls. Horrified, she locked the door, but blood had come onto the key which would not wash off. Bluebeard returned unexpectedly and immediately knew what his wife had done. In a blind rage he threatened to behead her on the spot, and so she locked herself in the highest tower with her sister. At the last moment, as Bluebeard was about to deliver the fatal blow, their brothers broke into the castle, and killed him.

4. Snow White the main character in an old fairytale. Snow White is a beautiful princess who has a jealous stepmother. The stepmother owns a magic mirror which when asked "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?" always answers that she is the most beautiful, until one day it says "Snow White". The stepmother is very angry and sends Snow White into the forest to be killed. Snow White does not die, but finds and lives with seven dwarfs. Her step­mother tries to kill her with a poisoned apple, but instead of dying she goes to sleep until a prince kisses her and wakes her, and they live happily ever after.

5 Find English equivalents for the following word-combinations.

благородного происхождения по собственному опыту будущий король ко всеобщему глубокому удивлению отправиться на бал тоскующий по дому предел мечтаний выдвинуть жесткие условия отправиться в новую жизнь получать особое внимание объяснить все сложности ее новой роли кратчайшим путём, напрямик недоступный, запрещённый для посещения переплетенные буквы G и F ее первая примерка (платья) и с тех пор жили долго и счастливо две соединенные буквы С взмахнуть волшебной палочкой королевская чета ужины в одиночестве не принимать в расчет чувства ясновидец предсказатель

of noble birth at first hand the king-to-be too much to everyone’s surprise to be off to the ball homesick the stuff of dreams to impose a stern condition to set off for a new life to come in for special attention to talk her through the rigours of her new role as the crow flies out of bounds the letters G and F intertwined her first fitting They lived happily ever-after. two “Cs” interlocked to wave the wand the royal couple solitary dinners to indulge one’s feelings clairvoyant soothsayer

6 Check you know the meanings of the words and phrases given in the box, make use of them when covering the information provided in the episode:

Teachers’ Notes: Choose any of the items for scripting as a home assignment.

1. Diana’s background.

to arm smb against to be blessed with humility custody at first hand to fall apart witnessed by to claim as to collapse to testify against to make one’s own way

at first hand – directly; из собственного опыта; humility - the state or quality of being humble; покорность, смирение; custody - the right of guardianship;

2. Charles’ misery and Diana’s love.

Duch far-fetched to mix in to date smb young royal the king-to-be to be off to to be brought up by to comfort smb to mourn smb to cast the spell

far-fetched -improbable in nature; unlikely; надуманный, искусственный;

3. Blue Beard versus a “modern” woman.

to impose a condition to share a title a forbidden room to marry into a family to produce

4. Camilla Parker-Bowels’ involvement in Prince Charles and Diana’s life.

to set off to to learn the reason next bombshell letters G and F intertwined to go through with tea-towels

bombshell - a shocking or unwelcome surprise; ошеломляющая новость, tea towels - a linen souvenir with printed pictures, photos, etc on it;

5. A fairytale and the reality.

to waste one’s weight to shrink from … to to fall for immortal lines to buy the myth of a pair of cufflinks two “Cs” interlocked

6. Deeper realities that the public shine conceal.

to have rumors the royal couple anorexic the news footage to arouse displeasure soothsayers to indulge one’s feelings to pour out one’s soul to solitary dinners to look for solutions clairvoyant

Clairvoyance - the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; ясновидение; soothsayer - предсказатель, прорицатель;

indulge - потворствовать, потакать; баловать

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