XIX городской конкурс учебно-исследовательских и

Научно-исследовательских работ учащихся

МБУ «Управление образования

Администрации г. Кунгура»

Научное общество учащихся

Секция «Английский язык»

Scottish and Russian fairytales

Красненкова Мария,

9А класс МОУ лицей №1

Ладыгина Е.Ю.,

учитель английского языка,

МОУ лицей №1

Кунгур 2011

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Contents

I.	Introduction	3-4
II.	The History of Creating Russian Folk Tales	4-6
III.	The History of Creating Scottish Folk Tales	7-8
IV.	Peculiarities of Russian Folk Tales	9
4.1	Composition	9-10
4. 2	Main Characters	10
4.3	Moral Values	11
V.	Peculiarities of Scottish Folk Tales	13
5.1	Composition	14
5.2	Main Characters	14-16
5.3	Moral Values	17-19
VI.	Conclusion	20
VII.	The List of Main Literature	21
VIII.	Appendix

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1. Introduction

We love and know fairy tales since childhood. “Will you tell me a tale?” It’s a common question of a child to his mum or dad, granny or granpa. A tale lived, lives and will live for centuries because it is a real miricle.

All fairy tales dated back to the early days of people’s history. A man came out of the world of animals. But thousands of years had passed before a man learned how to built warm houses, domesticated animals and began tilling the land. At that time people knew little about the world. There was so much unusual around: nature, distant lands, the sky, the bottom of the ocean. People believed in some magic power, in kind and evil spirits. As a result, fairy tales appeared.

People always dreamed about happy life. A man lived in a dug-out house but he dreamed about beautiful palaces; he walked his way through forests and marshes but pictured rich harvest grown in a night.All fairy tale characters overcame all the difficulties and gained the point.

People loved deeply their fairy tales characters and always described them as clever, honest, brave and kind-hearted. Kind wizards, animals simple people supported and helped such characters. Greedy, wicked, envious persons were always laughed at and punished.

The objectives of my work are

• to find information about classifications of tales;

• to find similarities and differences between Russian and Scottish tales;

• to explaine the reasons why tales were created.

I used the following methods for my research:

• critical study of special literature

• comparison and contrast

• description

• questionnaire.

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My working hypothesis is Russian and Scottish tales have something in common.