Презентация, доклад на английском языке Russian folk tales and English folk tales

we put together by little bits, and the thousand-year history of the people is disclosed in front of us” .
A. N. Tolstoy

“What a charm these tales!”

A.S. Pushkin

the Russians, which reveals the sense of their history, routine and ideology to us. Folk tales are taken from generation to generation, they give us wisdom and moral concepts of the nation. Our favourite folk tales are fairy tales and tales about animals.

between evil and kindness.
2. It the end of a tale the main character is a winner and his opponents are punished.
3. Characters have a general attribute which defines their image.

Bessmertny, Zmey Gorinych, Baba Yaga and Vasilisa Premudraya, Elena Prearasnaya , Alyonushka and others.

Ivan Tsarevich. He is a famous positive person, who fights with evil and helps the weak. He is often the youngest son of a king. He represents courage and good qualities.

he stands on the good side and light forces. His peculiarity is that he is not like other characters. He is not very smart, but due to his irrational behavior and unconventional thinking he goes through all the difficulties and becomes a winner. He defeats his opponents and gets the wealth.

did not characterize human mental abilities in the old days in Russia. The younger son was considered to be a “ fool”. But the word "fool" was understood as "another", "next" child.

Bessmertny , Baba Yaga and Zmey Gorinych.

witch, she deals with magical powers. Most often she is a negative character.

Koschey Bessmertny in Slavic mythology is the evil character whose death is hidden in several united animals and things.

Zmey Gorinych is a fire-breathing dragon with multiple heads, the representative of the evil forces in Russian fairy tales. Zmey Gorinych usually lives in the mountains.

- beautiful, kind, intelligent and hardworking. They are Vasilisa Premudraya, Elena Prekrasnaya , Alyonushka and others.  These women characters often own any magical items or know how to use miraculous powers.

by a few main
traits.

Folk tales about animals

Russian, German and French. The first collections of English folk tales appeared in the late 19th century. For the first time English folk tales were collected and published by Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916). It’s difficult to collect folk tales as many tales have been forgotten.

specific professions: farmers, peasants, merchants, wizards and noble persons.

Typical English characters

people is reflected in the character of Ivanushka-durachek the smartest of the three brothers he outsmarted Baba Yaga, went through all the hardships, married the Princess, got all the riches , won global evil in the form of Koschey Bessmertny.

The characters of some English fairy tales are not always kind, they are capable of trickery and deception, though they are sensible and energetic - traits that are valued in England, where market relations began to develop for the first time in the world. For example, cheating man-eating giants, the girl Molly in the story "Molly Whuppie" and Jack in the folk tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".

the actions of English characters is not to become famous but to become stronger and wiser, and to avoid any failure. Recall, for example, the tale "Mr. Mike," in which a little boy Tommy is struggling to behave well, not to get to Mr. Mike for dinner. Often for this reason English tales are considered to be very ordinary.

end, remember "Lord of lords". The ending is dramatic and even sometimes cruel: for example "Magic ointment". Intellectualism is not the most faithful companion of English folk tales. The stupidity can harmoniously coexist with kindness, morality and honesty within a single English character. We cannot imagine it in a Russian folk tale.

or winning in the end of our folk tales. A character of Russian folk tale overcomes a lot of obstacles and solves many problems.

Happiness for an English character is in wealth after many different adventures. When a character finds treasures, a tale will end.

interest in English folk tales. L. N. Tolstoy retold English tale “The three bears" for Russian children. S. V. Mikhalkov translated the famous English tale "the Three little pigs". 

of the national` spirit, it is corrected by centuries before it becomes that thing which we see now. There are no odd things. Everything is necessary. That is why a folk tale is eternal. A lack of justice in our life make us read folk tales. Justice always wins in folk tales. We believe they will come true someday.