The Frog Prince Grimm’s Brothers
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One fine evening, a young princess went out to take a stroll
by herself in the woods. When she
came to a cool spring of water, she
sat herself down to rest for a while. Now she had her favourite golden ball in her
hand, She was always tossing it up
into the air and catching it again as it fell. She had a lot of fun with it.
Then she threw it up so high that she
missed catching it as it fell. And the
ball bounded away, and rolled along on the ground and fell down into the deep
spring.
The princess began to cry helplessly as she said, 'Alas! if I could
only get my ball again, I would give all my fine clothes and jewels, and everything
that I have in the world.'
Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and
said, 'Princess, why are you weeping so bitterly?'
'Alas!' said she, 'what can you
do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen into the spring.'
The frog said, 'I do not want your pearls, jewels and fine
clothes. But if you will love me, let
me live with you, eat from your golden
plate, and sleep on your bed, I will
bring you your ball again.'
'What nonsense,' thought the princess, 'this silly frog is
talking! He can never even get out of
the spring to visit me though he may
be able to get my ball for me. Therefore
I will tell him he *shall have what he asks.'
So, the princess promised him so.
Then the frog put his head down, and dived deep under the water. After a little while, he came up again with the ball in his mouth
and threw it on the edge of the spring.
As
soon as the young princess saw her ball, she ran to pick it up. She was so overjoyed to have it in her
hand again that she forgot about her promises to the frog. She ran home with it as fast as she could.
The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you have promised.'
That
evening, just as the princess had sat down to dinner, she heard a strange
noise - tap, tap - plash, plash - something was coming up the marble staircase. Soon afterwards there was a gentle knock at
the door, and a little voice cried out and said:
'Open the door, my princess dear,
Open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said By the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'
Then the princess ran to the door and opened
it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten. At this sight,
she was sadly frightened, and shutting the door as fast as she could and came
back to her seat.
When the king, her father saw that something
had frightened her and asked her what the matter was. The princess told the king frankly what had
happened and what she had promised.
While she was speaking, the frog knocked
again at the door, and repeated the chant. Then the king
told to the young princess to keep her promises.
She did so, and the frog hopped into the room, and then straight on to the
table where the princess was sitting. Then he requested the princess to lift him
up and put him next to her.
As soon as she had done so, the frog
said, 'Put your plate nearer to me so that I may eat out of it.'
She
did so and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, 'Now I am tired;
carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.' Though the princess was really unwilling,
she took him up in her hand and put him upon the pillow of her own bed where
he slept all night long.
As soon as it was morning, the frog jumped up, hopped downstairs, and went
out of the house. The princess was
glad that he had gone, thinking that she was out of trouble with this nasty
frog. But she was mistaken for when night came again, the frog came once more. It knocked at the door and repeated the
same chant.
The princess opened the door for the frog to come in, have dinner with her and
sleep upon her pillow as before till the morning broke. And the third night he did the same. But when the princess woke up in the
following morning, she was astonished
to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince, standing at the head of her
bed. He was gazing on her with the
most beautiful eyes she had ever seen.
He told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked witch, who had changed him
into a frog. He had been fated so to
abide till a princess should take him out of the spring and let him eat from
her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights.
'You,' said the prince, 'have broken his cruel charm, and now I have nothing
to wish for but your hand. Will you marry me so that I can love you as
long as you live?'
The princess accepted his proposal
shyly. A few days later, a brightly coloured coach with eight
beautiful horses drove up and his faithful servant, Urich brought them back
to the kingdom. Everybody in the
kingdom was overjoyed and there was a grand celebration of their wedding
ceremony. Everybody was invited to
attend the feast. There was great
happiness throughout the kingdom.
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The Frog Princes
Words and Phrases
1. take
a stroll
2. in
the woods
3.
take a rest
4. for
a while
5. favourite (fa-vou-rite) /ˈfeɪvərɪt/
6.
catch catching caught caught
7.
fall falling fell fallen
8.
miss + F2
She missed catching the ball.
9.
throw throwing threw thrown
10. jewel /ˈdʒuːəl/ jewellery /ˈdʒuːəlri/
11. nasty /ˈnɑːsti/
12.
nonsense /'nɒnsəns/
13.
promise /ˈprɒmɪs/ promising promised
(F3/F4)
14.
to be frank /fræŋk/ frankly
15.
knock at
16. request requesting requested
17.
eat eating ate eaten
18. upstairs X
downstairs (Adv. of place)
19. am/is/are/was/
were willing X unwilling (Adj)
20. in
trouble X out of trouble (Prepositional phrase)
21. take taking took taken
mistake mistaking mistook mistaken
She was mistaken/wrong . (Adj)
F4
can function as Adjective and is called Verbal Adjective
22. chant /ʧɑ:nt/
23. astonish astonishing astonished (F3/F4)
She was astonished (F4) (Verbal Adjective)
24.
gaze on /geIz/ gazing gazed
25.
He had been fated so
Past Perfect Tense
The Active Voice The Passive Voice
[S] had
F4 [S] had been F4Answer all the Wh-questions in full.
1.
What was the princess doing one fine evening?
2.
What happened to her golden ball?
3.
How did she react to the situation?
4.
What did the frog say he could do for her?
5.
What did the frog asked in return?
6. Did the
princess keep her promise at first?
7. Was she
frightened when the frog came to the doorstep?
8. How did
she react at first at the sight of that ugly frog?
9. Who made
her decide to keep her promise?
10. How did
she carry out her promises?
11. How do
you think the princess must have felt when she saw it again
the
second night?
12. How did
the princess feel to see a handsome prince standing at the
head
of her bed?
13. What
had happened to him?
14. How did
the prince help him break the spell?
15. How do
you think the prince’s faithful servant, Urich came to know
that the spell had been broken and he had come back
to his normal
self
again? (make a reasonable conclusion)
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