Year 3
Number 85
October 26th
2002
4348 SHARERS are reading this issue of SHARE this
week
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never
decreases by being SHARED
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Dear
SHARERS,
Wow!
It´s late. Marina´s giving her last touches to her Saturday evening pizzas and
soon I will be called for dinner. She has popped her head into the study twice
to see whether I had finished. Between you and me : she definitely wants me to
finish this issue today because I have a bit of garden duty left for me to do
tomorrow. Martin , our eldest son, has promised to do it himself but you can
never be too sure. I might still end up doing it myself and … Oh, Lord! how much I hate cutting the grass!
Sebas
has just come back from some friends´ and is not going out tonight (He had a
party last night). Martin´s upstairs with friends and won´t be going out
either.
Yippee!
This means we will all sleep tight tonight.
Marina´s
calling! I must go ( Yummy, yummy! those pizzas smell delicious!).
Love
Omar and
Marina
In SHARE
85
1.- “True”
Homographs.
2.- Is Halloween a Catholic
celebration?
3.- Seminars in
Quilmes.
4.- Patriotism?
5.-
Cyberloafing.
6.- Jornadas on Creativity in ELT at
CAECE.
7.- Radio Programme by Students of
English.
8.- Macmillan Heinemann
announces.
9.- The Original Little Red
Hood.
10.- Applying NLP in the
Classroom.
11.- Don´t argue with
children.
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1.- “TRUE”
HOMOGRAPHS
This is the second and last part of the article that our dear SHARER
Blanca Perez Cazón from Córdoba sent us (part one was published in SHARE
84)
You
will not be able to see the phonetic characters correctly (as our programme does
not carry the Lucida Sans Unicode font) but the stress
pattern of each word (an important point in the article) will be, we hope,
discernible anyway. Notice that schwa
is shown as ? here.
The following set of 46 homographs (86 if all the inflectional variants
are counted) arise from a variety of causes. This section of the list includes
those words like “moped” and “wound” which are most typical of what we have in
mind when we think of homographs.
axes
'&ksIz
'&ksiz
(plural of axe/plural of axis)
aye
aI
eI
(Yes/ever)
baas
bAs
bAz
(South African boss/makes a sheep-like
noise)
bases
'beIsIz
'beIsiz
(plural of base/plural of basis)
bass
b&s
beIs
(fish/low voice)
bow
b?U
baU
bowed
b?Ud
baUd
bowing
'b?UIN
'baUIN
bows
b?Uz
baUz
(play violin/bend from the waist)
buffet
'bUfeI
'bVfIt
buffets
'bUfeIz
'bVfIts
(help-yourself table/blow)
cleanly
'klenlI
'klinlI
(adjective/adverb)
do
d?U
du
(musical note/auxiliary verb)
does
d?Uz
dVz
(deer/auxiliary verb)
entrance
'entr?ns
In'trAns
entrances
'entr?nsIz
In'trAnsIz
(way in/give delight)
forbear
'fObe?R
fO'be?R
forbears
'fObe?z
fO'be?z
(ancestor/not do)
forearm
'fOrAm
,fO'rAm
forearms
'fOrAmz
,fO'rAmz
(part of body/warn)
furrier
'f3rI?R
'fVrI?R
(more furry/fur dealer)
gallant
'g&l?nt
g?'l&nt
(adjective/person)
gill
dZIl
gIl
gills
dZIlz
gIlz
(measure/part of fish)
grave
grAv
greIv
graves
grAvz
greIvz
(French accent/burial place)
invalid
'Inv?lId
In'v&lId
(sick person/out of date)
lead
led
lid
leading
'ledIN
'lidIN
leads
ledz
lidz
(metal/go first)
lied
laId
lit
(told lies/German song)
live
lIv
laIv
(verb/adjective)
lives
lIvz
laIvz
(verb/noun)
lower
'l?U?R
'laU?R
lowered
'l?U?d
'laU?d
lowering
'l?U?Rin
'laU?rIN
lowers
'l?U?z
'laU?z
(make more low/frown)
manes 'mAneIz
meInz
(customs/fur round animal's neck)
minute
'mInIt
maI'njut
(time/very small)
moped
'm?Uped
m?Upt
(motor-cycle/was gloomy)
mow
m?U
maU
mowed
m?Ud
maUd
mowing
'm?UIN
'maUIN
mows
m?Uz
maUz
(cut grass/grimace)
palled
p&ld
pOld
palling
'p&lIN
'pOlIN
(made friends/became boring)
pasty
'p&stI
'peIstI
(pie/pale)
pension
'p0nsI0n
'penSn
pensions
'p0nsI0nz
'penSnz
(boarding-house/salary in retirement)
poll
p0l
p?Ul
polls
p0lz
p?Ulz
(parrots/opinion surveys)
put
pUt
pVt
puts
pUts
pVts
putting
'pUtIN
'pVtIN
(place/hit a golf ball on the green [often spelt
putt])
read
red
rid
lip-read
'lIp-red
'lIp-rid
misread
,mIs'red
,mIs'rid
proofread
'prufred
'prufrid
reread
ri'red
ri'rid
(past/present)
reproof
,ri'pruf
rI'pruf
reproofs
,ri'prufs
rI'prufs
(proofread again/criticism)
routed
'raUtId
'rutId
routing
'raUtIN
'rutIN
(comprehensively beating in battle/sending on a particular way [often
spelt ROUTEING])
row
r?U
raU
rowed
r?Ud
raUd
rowing
'r?UIN
'raUIN
rows
r?Uz
raUz
(propel a boat/argue)
sewer
's?U?R
'sju?R
sewers
's?U?z 'sju?z
(person who sews/drain)
slough
slVf
slaU
sloughs
slVfs
slaUz
(discard skin/marsh)
sow
s?U
saU
sows
s?Uz
saUz
(spread seed/female pig)
swinging
'swININ
'swIndZIN
(from swing/from swinge [often spelt
SWINGEING])
tarry
't&rI
'tArI
(wait/covered with tar)
tear
tI?R
te?R
tears
tI?z
te?z
(liquid from the eyes/rips in cloth)
tinged
tINd
tIndZd
tinging
'tININ
'tIndZIN
(made a bell sound/added colour)
valence 'v&l?ns
'veIl?ns
valences
'v&l?nsIz
'veIl?nsIz
(hanging border--also spelled 'valance'/chemical bond--also spelled
'valency')
wind
wInd
waInd
winding
'wIndIN
'waIndIN
winds
wIndz
waIndz
(moving air/twist a knob)
worsted
'w3stId
'wUstId
(defeated/cloth)
wound
waUnd
wund
(past of WIND/hurt in battle)
Several other homographs failed to show up in the dictionary list;
job/Job, august/August, polish/Polish and reading/Reading are distinguished by
capitalisation and would only be homographs in sentence-initial position or in
all-upper-case writing. The word dove is a homograph for speakers of American
English but not for the British for whom the past tense of dive is dived. In two
cases of recent loan words, pate and resume, the homograph is disambiguated by
retaining the French accent in the English spelling. In several other cases the
words were presumably missed out because the listing of inflected and derived
forms was selective. Many of these words are particularly popular with crossword
setters since they allow for the creation of misleading cryptic clues.
august/August
O'gVst
'Og?st
(solemn/eighth month)
bower
'baU?R
'b?U?R
(tree-shaded place/violinist)
denier
'denI?
dI'naI?
(stocking measure, one who denies)
dove
d?Uv
dVv
(past of dive (US)/bird of peace)
drawer
drO
drO?
(sliding container in a desk/one who draws a cheque--as in "refer to
drawer")
finish
'fInIS
'faInIS
(complete/somewhat fine)
flower
'flaU?R
'fl?U?R
(plant/something that flows)
glower
'glaU?R
'gl?U?R
(frown/something that glows)
job/Job
dZ0b
dZ?Ub
(work/old testament prophet)
layer
'le?R
'leI?R
(stratum/egg-producer)
number
'nVmb?R
'nVm?R
(numerical value/more numb)
pate
'p&teI
peIt
(meat spread/bald head; not a homograph if one retains the acute accent
for the first meaning)
peer
pI?
'pi?
(look closely/one who pees)
polish/Polish
'p0lIS
'p?UlIS
(make shiny/from Poland)
prayer
'pre?R
'preI?R
(what is said to God/person who prays)
pussy
'pUsI
'pVsI
(beloved cat/oozing pus)
reading/Reading
'ridIN
'redIN
(looking at words/town in Berkshire or
Massachusetts)
resume
rI'zjum
'rezjU,meI
(start again/CV; not a homograph if one retains the acute accent for the
second meaning)
sake
seIk
'sAkI
(behalf/Japanese drink)
shower
'SaU?R
'S?U?R
(short rainfall/one who shows)
skier
'ski?
'skaI?
(one who skis/ball hit high into the
air)
supply
'sVplI
s?'plaI
(in a supple way/provide)
tier
'taI?
tI?
(one who ties/row of seats)
tower
'taU?R
't?U?R
(tall building/one who tows)
Abbreviations
There is one homograph I know of (there may be more) which arises from
abbreviating two different words. Reg is pronounced /redZ/ when it is short for
Reginald or registration, as in "a T-reg car". It is pronounced /reg/ when it is
short for regulation as in "Queen's Regs" (the British Army's rule book).
Luckily the second form is almost always plural and the first almost always
singular, so there is little chance of confusion. There are at least two cases
where a homograph arises between a full word and an abbreviation. One is the
homograph of path, which is pronounced /pAT/ by RP speakers in its ordinary
meaning as a place to walk, and /p&T/ when it is an abbreviation for
pathology, as in "we are waiting for the path reports"; the other is the
abbreviation Staffs /st&fs/ for Staffordshire against the verb staffs
/stAfs/, which would be homographs in upper-case writing.
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Reference: Higgins, J (1984). "It or ate; a note on the pronunciation of
words ending in -ate.", ELT Journal 38, 1, p. 50-51.
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© John Higgins,
2002
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2.- IS HALLOWEEN A CATHOLIC
CELEBRATION?
Our dear SHARER Jorgelina Sanchez from Rosario sends us
this short article to throw some light about the origin of this spooky
celebration:
October 31st
Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve)
Many Catholic parents have their doubts
about Halloween- some suspect it’s an unhealthy carryover of pagan trafficking
in spirits. (Kids, of course, have no qualms).
Halloween has deep Christian
roots. Even “Trick or Treating” may have its origin, in part, in “Souling” –
walking from door to door, dressed as souls in Purgatory, asking for prayers.
“Halloween” comes from All Hallows’ Evening – the eve of All Hallow’s Day,
that is, All Saint’s Day. Until 1965, the liturgy of the Universal Church
celebrated it as a solemn vigil.
In many parts of the world, there is a
long tradition of praying for the dead at the grave sites of departed loved ones
on Halloween and attending “black vespers” at church in the evening. It is
believed that Irish Catholics began the custom of banging pots and pans on this
night, so that even the souls in hell would not feel left out.
A modern
Catholic observance of Halloween?
For guests (of any age) in costume:
1. Have someone read aloud Psalm 129
(“De Profundis”).
2. Make a candlelight procession to a graveyard while
singing the Litany of Saints (an adult with a flashlight and the litany printed
out will need to lead this). The simplest way is to create a temporary
“graveyard” in your own yard. Some families set up four “tombstones”: one for
Departed Family, one for Departed Friends, one for Departed Clergy, and one for
Forgotten Dead. Say a prayer at each tombstone.
3. Costume-party games and
treats.
(Privately) Recite the Sorrowful
Mysteries of the Rosary for the holy souls in Purgatory.
The Litany of the Saints is available
online at a number of sites, including www.geocities.com/francishinchoy/litany-saints.htm
.
© www.catholic.net
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3.- SEMINAR IN QUILMES
Anglia
Examination Syndicate, The Bridge School of English and Kensington School of
English have the great pleasure to invite you to their ELT seminar:
Ready for the frantic rush between the last month and the holidays? - Bet
you are!! Then, don't miss the chance to get the full monty and fill yourself
with enough stamina to cope with the toughest bit!!
Saturday 9th November 2002
Registration: - 02.30 - 02.45 p.m.
02.45 - 04.15 p.m.-
English Pronunciation - A burden for EFL teachers?!
Well, it's not as frightening as it sounds, or at least, it shouldn't
be!!
Don't you think that getting aware of the latest models is the
cornerstone of a successful attempt?
Don't you think that your students deserve to be taught how to deal with
the vast corpora of British, American and Australian
sounds?
Last but not least, don't you think that a full bunch of classroom
recipes to fully exploit this potential is what you
need?
If you have answered YES to any of these questions, then you can't miss
this presentation!!
Conducted by: Christian Kunz
Christian Kunz is an EFL Teacher, Teacher Trainer and Director of Studies
at Kensington Schools of English, Buenos Aires. He has also taught ESL/EFL in
the UK and Australia, and has recently run workshops for EFL teachers in
Holland. He has been lecturing on ESL/EFL Methodology and Advanced Language for
teachers all over Argentina since 1997. Christian has been involved with the
Anglia Examination Syndicate Testing Services since 1996 and was appointed
Academic Representative in South America for this EFL examining body in 1997. He
holds the Cambridge/RSA Cert. / Dip. ELTA. His main interests are "Evolution and
Change in Spoken English", "Diversities of English Accents" and "ESL/EFL
Teaching Resources".
BREAK: - 04.15 - 04.30 p.m.-
- 04.30 - 06.00 p.m.-
Towards Communication through Grammar
Task-based learning? - Content-based syllabuses? - Improvisation and
Role-play? - of course!! We all want our students to communicate, but can they
do all this without a GRAMMAR?"
Conducted by: Omar Villarreal
Omar has taught English at all levels : Kindergarten through University
for 29 years. He was Secondary School Head for more than 10 years. He was also
Head of the School of English at Universidad Austral and Principal of Instituto
Superior del Profesorado Modelo.
At present he is a University Lecturer in the area of Applied Linguistics
at INSPT of Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and Head of Department at Instituto
Superior de Formación Docente Nro 41- Adrogué.
His post-graduate studies include: Applied Linguistics (INSPLV),
Educational Research (UN Córdoba). and two Licenciaturas: Ciencias de la
Educación (UCALP) and Educational Technology (FRA-
UTN).
He was the Project-Director and co-author of the best-seller series
"Polimodal English" (Macmillan Heinemann). He is also the author of "Grammar
Explorer", "Tourism" and "Hotel and Catering Services" (Macmillan Publishers)
and of a number of other books, papers and articles in the field of Pedagogy and
ELT. He has lectured extensively in all Argentine provinces as well as in
Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Peru.
Venue: Multimedios "El Sol" - Auditorio "Sara C. Ghisani" - Matheu 67,
1st fLoor, Quilmes Ctro
Fee: Anglia Members: $ 3.00 (handouts) Others: $ 5.00 (including
handouts)
Registration:
The Bridge School of English - Tel: 4252-5321 - thebridgeschoo@aol.com
Kensington School of English - Tel: 4243-3589 -
kensangliarep@infovia.com.ar
Certificates
of attendance will be issued.
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4.- PATRIOTISM?
Our dear friend Pablo Figueres from Montevideo, Uruguay
wants to share this quote with all of us. Says he: “I hope this will move of us
SHARERS into deep reflection about the ultimate purposes of many a
drummer”
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into
a
patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens
the
blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have
reached a fevered pitch
and the blood boils with hate and the mind has
closed, the leader will have no need in
seizing the rights of the citizenry.
Rather, the citizenry, infused with
fear and blinded by
patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the
leader and gladly so. How do I know? For
this is what I have done.
And I am Caesar.”
Julius Caesar
©
CyberCowGrrl, 2002
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5.- CYBERLOAFING
If you're reading this in the office, you may be
cyberloafing, as it's the term for employees who surf the Internet when they
should be working. It's not an especially new word (it dates from the end of the
heyday of the "cyber-" word-creation boom, about 1996) but it has become
newsworthy recently following the publication of apaper by Vivien K G Lim of the
National University of Singapore in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She
surveyed a selection of
self-identified cyberloafers and found that they
often did so not out of boredom or laziness but as an act of defiance against
what they saw as unjust actions by their employers - so a conscious attempt to
balance the ledger. The term's root is the colloquial English noun "loafer",
someone who spends time idly. This is known from about 1830, originally in the
US, but its origin is unknown; it might come from a German word for a tramp,
"Landläufer".
”Gartner estimates that about five percent of enterprise
workers engage in inappropriate online behavior at the office, ranging from
simple "cyberloafing" to using company Internet access to hold down a second
job”.
[Business Wire, May 2001]
”As employers grow wary of workers
cyberloafing and worry about litigation over offensive and incriminating e-mail,
many companies are cracking down with strict e-mail use policies and software to
monitor network usage”.
[PC World, March 2000]
World Wide Words- Issue
311. World Wide Words is copyright (c) Michael Quinion 2002. All rights
reserved.
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6.- JORNADAS ON CREATIVITY IN ELT AT
CAECE
Our dear friend and SHARER Ana
Maria Rozzi de Bergel has an invitation to make:
Universidad
CAECE
Tte.Gral.Juan Domingo Perón 2933 - Buenos
Aires
T: 5217-7888/89 - www.caece.edu.ar
Invita a su Jornada: "La Creatividad en la Enseñanza de las Ciencias y
las Humanidades"
Sábado 2 de Noviembre, de 9:00 a 17:00
hs.
Presentaciones de Trabajos Finales y Proyectos de los egresados de las
Licenciaturas para Profesores. Los asistentes podrán elegir entre las siguientes
especialidades: Geografía - Biología - Inglés - Lengua y Literatura - Matemática
- Ciencias Sociales - Filosofía - Comunicación en la Enseñanza - Historia -
Informática - Física - Tecnología Educativa - Química - Educacion Física –
Música
Programme - Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Idioma
Inglés
9:00: Accreditation and welcome by the Head of the Humanities Department,
Prof. Henri Bosch.
Brief concert by CAECE's choir. (For all the
Licenciaturas)
9:45 - 10:00: Presentation of the Licenciatura en Enseñanza del Idioma
Inglés, by Lic.Ana María R. de Bergel,
Coordinator.
Presentations of Projects and Papers
Tutored by:: Prof. Ana Traversa, M.A. and Lic. Efrain Davis,
M.A:
10:00 - 10:45: Alejandra Jorge, Delayed Needs and their Methodological
Implications when Teaching Business English to Job-experienced
Learners
10:45 - Coffee break
11:15 -Improving Education Through Teacher Development: Two Papers.
- Adriana González
- María Paula de la Peña
13:00
- 13:45: A Critical Perspective on Materials Selection: Two Papers .
Beatriz
Carranza
- Anabella Linari
13:45 - 14:00 : Break
14:00 - 15:30 - Pending Issues in ELT Education: Three Reports of
Research in Progress
- Cristina Araujo, "Meeting the Needs of Special Learners: Towards
Two-Way Integration"
- Anabel Morrison, "Applying Drama to Language Learning" - A Case
Study
- Laura Garcia, "The Role of the L1 in the L2 Class: Cognitive and
Ideological Considerations"
15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45 - Pablo Labandeira, Authentic materials: a possible way
of improving language performance in a high-pressure
context.
Free Admission.
Please confirm your attendance:
arozzi@caece.edu.ar
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7.- RADIO PROGRAMME BY STUDENTS OF
ENGLISH
Our dear SHARER
Silvia Lorenzón from Entre Ríos is leading a special project with some of her
students. Our sincere congratulations to her and her young “radio artists”.
Dear
Omar,
A group of
students of mine ( 5th. Media B -Cultural Inglesa-Paraná) are hosting the first
radio programme in English (FM del Este-105.1) called "RADIO BREAK" every Friday from
8: 00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. They are Yamila Almada, Eduardo Alfaro, Soledad Servat,
Florencia Suksdorf and María Emilia Vergara. I'd be grateful if you could
"announce" this programme in your magazine so that all the SHARERS of this area
can SHARE this very rewarding experience with us.
Fondest
regards.
Ms.
Silvia Lorenzón.
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8.- MACMILLAN HEINEMANN
ANNOUNCES
Our dear friend and SHARER Marina Ulloa announces a series of workshops
and presentations of Macmillan Heinemann materials:
Barrio Norte: Thursday 31st October, 17:00 to 19:00
pm
A Skyline for the Future: Teaching English at
Polimodal
Why not have it all? Presenting the Macmillan English
Dictionary
Estari Libros, Viamonte 2052, Ciudad de Buenos
Aires.
Registration: Estari Libros, Viamonte 2052, Phone:
4374-0014
Barrio Norte: Thursday 7th November, 17:00 to 19:00
pm
Primary teaching is Brilliant!; Fantasy, Emotion and Friendship in one of
the most memorable courses ever!
Different Learning Needs : A Galaxy where all Students are
Welcome...
Venue: Estari Libros Registration: Estari
Libros
Flores, Friday 8th November, 17:30 to 19:00
pm.
A Skyline for the Future: Teaching English at
Polimodal.
Why not have it all? Presenting the Macmillan English
Dictionary
Venue: Acme Agency, Sucursal Flores. Camacua 87 -
Registration: Camacua 87, Flores. Phone: 4631-
8659
Córdoba, Friday 8th November, 18:00 to 19:30
pm.
A Skyline for the Future: Polimodal
Students
Why not have it all? Presenting the Macmillan English
Dictionary
Venue: Librería Blackpool, Av. Rafael Nuñez 4555, Cerro de las
Rosas
Registration:
Librería Blackpool, Phone:
0351 4237122 / 0351 481 4472
Córdoba: Saturday 9th November, 9:00 to 12:00
am.
Primary teaching is Brilliant!; Fantasy, Emotion and Friendship in one of
the most memorable courses ever!
Different Learning Needs : A Galaxy where all students are
welcome...
Venue:
Librería Blackpool - Registration: Librería Blackpool
Palermo, Tuesday 12th November, 17:30 to 19:00
pm
Primary teaching is Brilliant!; Fantasy, Emotion and Friendship in one of
the most memorable courses ever!
Different Learning Needs : A Galaxy where all students are
welcome.......
Venue:
SBS, Coronel Diaz 1745, Registration:
SBS, Coronel Diaz 1745. Phone: 4821- 0206
Ciudad de Buenos Aires- Centro, Friday 15 th November, 17:30 to
19:00
A Skyline for the Future: Teaching English at
Polimodal.
Why not have it all? Presenting the Macmillan English
Dictionary
Venue: Acme Agency, Suipacha 245 1er Piso, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Registration:
Acme Agency, Suipacha 245 1er Piso. Phone:
4328-1662.
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9.- THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RED RIDING
HOOD
Our dear SHARER Patricia Bortolussi from Santa Cruz sent us this original
version of the well known Grimm´s tale “Little Red Riding
Hood”
Grimm's Fairy Tales
For these stories we give the original 1884 text of Margaret Hunt (called
Grimm's Household Tales, by all accounts a good translation, if somewhat
old-fashioned by present-day standards . Hunt is based on the last revised
edition of the Grimms´ tales. This book contains 209 tales collected by the
brothers Grimm.
Note that these tales are presented more or less as the Grimms collected
and edited them (and as Hunt saw fit to translate them). Readers of these
versions may find more violence and crudity (and occasional anti-Semitism) than
in the retellings that are more familiar to most modern readers.
Little
Red-Cap
Once upon a time
there was a dear little girl who was loved by every one who looked at her, but
most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have
given to the child. Once she gave
her a little cap of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never
wear anything else. So she was
always called little red-cap.
One day her mother
said to her, come, little red-cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of
wine. Take them to your
grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her
good.
Set out before it
gets hot, and when you are going, walk nicely and quietly and do not run off the
path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then your grandmother will get
nothing. And when you go into her
room, don't forget to say, good-morning, and don't peep into every corner before
you do it.
I will take great
care, said little red-cap to her mother, and gave her hand on
it.
The grandmother
lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as little
red-cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
Red-cap did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all
afraid of him.
"Good-day, little
red-cap," said he.
"Thank you kindly,
wolf."
"Whither away so
early, little red-cap?"
"To my
grandmother's."
"What have you got
in your apron?"
"Cake and
wine. Yesterday was baking-day, so
poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her
stronger."
"Where does your
grandmother live, little red-cap?"
"A good quarter of
a league farther on in the wood.
Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just
below. You surely must know it,"
replied little red-cap.
The wolf thought
to himself, what a tender young creature.
What a nice plump mouthful, she will be better to eat than the old
woman. I must act craftily, so as
to catch both. So he walked for a
short time by the side of little red-cap, and then he said, "see little red-cap,
how pretty the flowers are about here.
Why do you not
look round. I believe, too, that
you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you were
going to school, while everything else out
here in the wood
is merry."
Little red-cap
raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through
the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere, she thought, suppose I take
grandmother a
fresh
nosegay. That would please her
too. It is so early in the day that
I shall still get there in good time.
And so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever
she had picked
one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it,
and so got deeper and deeper into the wood.
Meanwhile the wolf
ran straight to the grandmother's house and knocked at the
door.
"Who is
there?"
"Little red-cap,"
replied the wolf. "She is bringing
cake and wine. Open the
door."
"Lift the latch,"
called out the grandmother, "I am too weak, and cannot get
up."
The wolf lifted
the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to
the grandmother's bed, and devoured her.
Then he put on her clothes, dressed himself in
her cap, laid
himself in bed and drew the curtains.
Little red-cap,
however, had been running about picking flowers, and when she had gathered so
many that she could carry no more, she remembered her grandmother, and set out
on the
way to
her.
She was surprised
to find the cottage-door standing open, and when she went into the room, she had
such a strange feeling that she said to herself, oh dear, how uneasy I feel
to-day, and at
other times I like
being with grandmother so much. She
called out, "good morning," but received no answer. So she went to the bed and drew back the
curtains. There lay her grandmother
with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very
strange.
"Oh, grandmother,"
she said, "what big ears you have."
"The better to
hear you with, my child," was the reply.
"But, grandmother,
what big eyes you have," she said.
"The better to see
you with," my dear.
"But, grandmother,
what large hands you have."
"The better to hug
you with."
"Oh, but,
grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have."
"The better to eat
you with."
And scarcely had
the wolf said this, than with one bound he was out of bed and swallowed up
red-cap.
When the wolf had
appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to
snore very loud. The huntsman was
just passing the house, and thought to himself, how
the old woman is
snoring. I must just see if she
wants anything.
So he went into
the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it.
Do I find you here, you old sinner,
said he. I have long sought
you. Then just as he was
going
to fire at him, it
occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she
might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began
to cut
open the stomach
of the sleeping wolf. When he had
made two snips, he saw the little red-cap shining, and then he made two snips
more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, ah, how
frightened I have
been. How dark it was inside the
wolf. And after that the aged
grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red-cap, however,
quickly
fetched great
stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to
run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell
dead.
Then all three
were delighted. The huntsman drew off the wolf's skin and went home with
it. The grandmother ate the cake
and drank the wine which red-cap had brought, and revived,
but
red-cap thought to
herself, as long as I live, I will never by myself leave the path, to run into
the wood, when my mother has forbidden me to do so.
It is also related
that once when red-cap was again taking cakes to the old grandmother, another
wolf spoke to her, and tried to entice her from the path. Red-cap, however, was on her guard,and
went straight forward on her way, and told her grandmother that she had met the
wolf, and that he had said good-morning to her, but with such a wicked look in
his eyes, that if they had not been on the public road she was certain he would
have eaten her up. Well, said the
grandmother, we will shut the door, that he may not come in. Soon afterwards the wolf knocked, and
cried, open the door, grandmother, I am little red-cap, and am
bringing
you some
cakes. But they did not speak, or
open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at
last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until red-cap went home in the
evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness. But the grandmother saw what was in his
thoughts. In front of the house was
a great stone trough, so she said to the child, take the pail, red-cap. I made some sausages yesterday, so carry
the water in which I boiled them to the trough. Red-cap carried until the great trough
was quite full. Then the
smell of the sausages reached the wolf, and he sniffed and peeped down, and at
last stretched out his neck so far that he could no longer keep his footing and
began to slip, and slipped down from the roof straight into the great trough,
and was drowned. But red-cap went joyously home, and no one ever did anything to
harm her again.
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10.- APPLYING NLP IN THE
CLASSROOM
Our dear SHARERS and friends Jamie Duncan and Laura Szmuch send us all
this announcement:
Courses for 2003
including Summer Sizzlers
We are firming up
our plans for next year's courses.
The year will kick
off in February with Summer Sizzlers - the Creativity Week. Following the success of Winter Wonders,
we will be holding another week of workshops applying NLP to the classroom. You
can enrol for the whole week or individual workshops.
Date: Tuesday
February 11 Friday February 14
9.00 12.00 and 14.00 17.00
Workshop titles:
What do I want?
Goal Setting
Enriching your
creative work
Language for
Flexibility
Really Listening
What lies
beneath? How beliefs affect teaching and learning
Another slurp of
Passionfruit
Options for
Resourceful Leadership
I´m a
Superteacher
Practitioner
Certificate
We will begin a
new course in April for those who want the full Practitioner Course training
with international certificate.
There will be some changes to the modules to realign us with
international requirements. This
course will run on Saturdays once a month during 2003 and 2004
(wow!)
Master
Practitioner Certificate
We will open a new
course to start in April. This 13
module course also offers international certification. Please note that we do not offer this
course every year and the next starting date will be
2005!
If you are
interested in this course or would like more details, please get in touch with
us at lauraszmuch@aol.com or jamie@abaconet.com.ar
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11.- DON´T ARGUE WITH
CHILDREN
Our dear SHARER and invaluable collaborator Bethina Viale sends some jokes to brighten up this
coming week.
A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said
it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though
it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated
that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a
whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl
said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah." The teacher asked, "What if Jonah
went to hell?" The little girl replied, "Then you ask him."
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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they
drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's art work. As she
got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing
was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God." The
teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like." Without
missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in
a minute."
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An honest seven-year-old admitted calmly to her parents that Billy Brown
had kissed her after class. "How did that happen?" gasped her mother. "It wasn't easy," admitted the young
lady, "but three girls helped me catch him."
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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes
at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother has several strands of
white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her
mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your
hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do
something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The
little girl thought about this revelation for while and then said, "Momma, how
come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"
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A three-year-old went with his dad to see a litter of kittens. On
returning home, he breathlessly informed his mother that there were two boy
kittens and two girl kittens. "How did you know?" his mother asked. "Daddy picked them up and looked
underneath," he replied. "I think it's printed on the bottom."
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Today we will say
goodbye with a short poem that Mónica Beatriz García gave me on April
4th 1996 in San Martín de los Andes where I was teaching an
in-service course. She is not a SHARER. I do not even know whether she´s got an
e-mail address. She just gave it to me in a typed out piece of paper long before
the times of regular daily e-mails.
To her and to the
many generous souls that SHARED with me my many happy days lecturing in the
provinces goes this little poem as
a taken of appreciation.
A
FAMILY
Sometimes being
family
means more than just a
smile
and good
times
It means caring for each
other
and building bridges of
trust.
It means not being
afraid
to ask and answer difficult
questions.
It means accepting one
another
for what we
are.
It means pulling
together
When things get
rough,
knowing that love will be
there,
no matter what.
HAVE A WONDERFUL
WEEK!
Omar and
Marina.
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