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ELEFANTA - ENGLISHTIPS.ORG

Series Editors: Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

The L¡ttle Match Girl Hans Christian Andersen

Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

Illustrated by Mónica Armiño

Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark, in 1805. He was an only child, and came from a poor family. But he didn't want to stay and do ordinary work in Odense. He loved singing, storytelling, and the theatre. So at 14, he went to look for more interesting work in Copenhagen. There, the Danish King helped to pay for his education, and he became a writer. Hans Christian Andersen wrote poems, novels. and travel books, but he is most famous today for his many wonderful childrent stories. He died in 1875, at a friend's house near Copenhagen, after a bad fall.

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Story Characters

The Little Match

The Mother

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The Father

The Grandmother

BeforeReading

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Hercold little home

Activities

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Her mother's

shoes

Activities

ffi

.......4 ........7

Acornertositin

B

Activities

11

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The stove and the

goose .. "

12 15

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candles and stars .......

16 19

Activities

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Happy Iittle soul

20 23

Project A

24

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ProjectB...... Word Work Grammar About Dominoes

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31

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§=§*ñil *g&*Er€§ This story is about a poor little girl. What do you think happens in it? Tick the boxes.

a

The girl

1[ 2[

b

... one cold December night

stays at home goes out

She loses her

...

in the street.

I

E

mother's shoes

2

I

father's watch

She

... that eveninq.

1 I sells lots of matches 2 fldoesn't sell any matches

She eats

... that night

l []alot 2 I nothing

5he sees ... things in her head

1E 2E

wonderful not very nice

In the end, the girl

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..

.

.

dies lives in her grandmother! house

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The little girl lives with her mother and father. The wind comes in through the walls of their cold little house.

'Yes, Mother,' her daughter says. She puts some matches

into her old apron. wind a r-th¿i mcv."s wall :6e side of ¿ hcuse sell

:o take money for sornething

match

you lighi

¿

Íire, or a c¿ndle

wlih il'is

apron

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put thlnqs ln

wear thrs over a dress to

ELEFANTA - ENGLISHTIPS.ORG Then she puts her feet into some shoes near the front door.

'Don't come back without any money,' her father says. 'Or I'm taking my belt to your back!' 'No, Father,' the little girl answers. She remembers her father's last beating, and she is afraid.

belt

you wear this round your midd e

beating

when you hit someone stronq y

RlAt,*l\¡G {r{E(X Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

fa*her f)Ñ.

a

The linle girl lives with her mother and

b

They live in a cold little hotel.