Learn English with 6 Famous Fairy Tales in the United States

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Hi, everybody!
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Welcome back to Top Words.
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My name is Alisha, and today we're going to be talking about the Top 6 American Fairy Tales.
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So let's go!
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Sleeping Beauty The first fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty.
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Sleeping Beauty is a very popular story.
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Essentially, the story is that there is this beautiful girl who is asleep for a very long
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time and she can only be awakened by a kiss from a prince, or by her true love, something
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I'm not sure about the qualifications for the person who kisses her to wake her up,
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but that's what it is.
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In a sentence, “I didn't watch the movie Sleeping Beauty very much when I was a kid.”
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That is true.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Snow White is the story of another princess
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and she lives in the woods with Seven Dwarfs.
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Dwarfs are small people.
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I don’t know, depending on the story, they have powers sometimes, they’ve like different,
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I don't know, attributes.
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“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first ever full-color Disney movie.”
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It’s truth, look it up.
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Jack and the Beanstalk The next fairy tale is Jack and the Beanstalk.
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Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic story, Jack is a young boy who lives in a village
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and he sells his family's cow for three magic beans.
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The magic beans he plants and then a huge Beanstalk grows, so a giant plant grows and
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he climbs the plant up to the cloud region.
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He climbs a plant up and he finds this land where Giants live and then he steals from
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the Giants, and tries to take it back down to his home.
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In a sentence, “Jack and the Beanstalk was adapted into a movie called Into The Woods
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a few years ago.”
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Also true.
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Cinderella The next story is Cinderella.
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Cinderella is like another classic story from Brothers Grimm; the Brothers Grimm had the
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very dark version of Cinderella.
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The story of Cinderella is, Cinderella is one of three sisters, I believe, and she's
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made to do all of the cleaning in her household, she's kind of pushed to the side; but she
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has a chance one night to go to a ball, a formal dance, where she meets a prince and
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he really likes her, but she has to get home before midnight because she's under a spell
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that makes her, that gives her like a beautiful dress only until midnight.
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But when she leaves his house she loses her shoe and somehow her shoe remains after the
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spell has finished, the prince searches the country looking for the woman whose foot fits
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the shoe, so that is the story of Cinderella.
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My good story about Cinderella, one of my shoes fell off when I was at a party recently,
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like, last year and the guy behind me saw it happened, I was walking upstairs and my
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shoes fell off my foot, so he grabbed it and put it back on my foot, and every time he
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sees me now he called me Cinderella, that is true.
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“Cinderella is a classic fairy tale.”
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The Tortoise and the Hare So the next story, or I guess not so much
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a fairy tale but classic story, is The Tortoise and the Hare.
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So in this very simple story there's a tortoise, a turtle, a kind of turtle, and a hare, which
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is an old word for rabbit; turtle and rabbit.
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So they're competing in a race in The Tortoise and the Hare story, the hare runs ahead, the
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rabbit runs ahead of the tortoise, so far ahead that he thinks he's already won the
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race, so he lays down to take a nap; and in that time period the tortoise catches up and
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passes the rabbit and wins the race eventually.
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So it's a great reminder that you should not take for granted your successes.
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In a sentence, “The Tortoise and the hare is a great reminder about diligence.”
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Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast, the story is that this
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beautiful woman goes to live in a magical castle.
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The master of the castle is a beast, and over time she slowly makes him more friendly, she
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slowly makes him into a better person and then at the end of the story they become friends,
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in a relationship, I guess.
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He moves out of, like, beast-zone and then into friendzone, and then into, like, boyfriend
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zone with her, I guess.
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Out of beast zone, wow that's the thing I said.
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Beast zone.
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“I have always wanted the library that's in the Beauty in the Beast Disney movie.”
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So that's the end of the Top 6 American Fairy Tales.
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Maybe you have an interesting fairy tale in your country?
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Please leave us a comment and let us know more about it!
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Thanks very much for watching this episode, we'll see you again soon.
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Bye!
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