Il Gigante Egoista

Exercises

After reading the summary with your teacher complete the following exercises

1. Answer the questions using short answers.

1. Is the giant nice and generous?.......................


2. Is there a lake in the garden?...........................


3. Do children go to the Giant’s garden (after school) ?.......................


4. Are children happy in the first part of the show?.......................


5. Is it always spring?.......................


6. Does the giant love winter?.......................


7. Has the giant got a family?.......................


8. Is the giant rich?.......................


9. Does he build a wall all around his garden?.......................


10. Does the giant die?.......................

1. Is it winter in the first part of the story?.......................
2. When the giant arrives, is he happy to see children in his garden? .......................
3. Where was the giant before coming back? .......................
4. Why children cannot play in the road? .......................
5. Is everything coloured when is winter? .......................
6. What does the giant do to protect his garden? .......................

3. After reading the story, look for adjectives describing the giant. Try to describe him using the word you have found and the verb to be.

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1. This is a sentence from the story:
   “The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but not to the Giant’s garden”.
   Do you know which fruit there are in autumn? And in the other seasons?
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2. “The Winter covered the garden and our own village with his cold cloak and the birds migrated south to a warmer climate”.
   In this sentence the birds migrate to south, do you know the other cardinal points?
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1. Every afternoon after school children goes to the giant’s garden to play.
2. Look! Birds are singing, children are playing and flower are growing. It’s really nice.
3. Dop seven years the giant returned (ritornò)
4. He said (disse): “What are you doing? This is her garden.”
5. Now, children are not playng, birds is not singing and flowers are not growing.
6. The giant has built a wall, in this way children can go in.

• It’s always winter, everything is white
• Children are happy and can play in the Giant’s garden
• Finally, children can go back to the garden. The spring is here, again.

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9. This is the dialogue between the Giant and the Child. Rewrite it using reported speech.

Giant: Hello, little one! Who has dared to hurt you? tell me, that I may take my big sword and slay him.!
Child: Nay, but these are the wounds of Love.
Giant: Who are you?
Child: You let me play once in your garden, today you shall come with me to my garden.

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10 - When the giant arrived, what are the children doing? Write some sentences using the following verbs. Remember to put the verbs into the Present Continuous tense:
Ex. Birds are singing

To jump - to hop - to play football - to skip - to play to hide-and-seek - to amuse oneself

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1. The snow (cover)............the grass.
2. Birds (migrate)............to warmer climate.
3. Flowers (disappear)............Children have stopped to play.
4. The giant (build)............a wall.
5. The giant (expel)............children.
6. Everything (change)............

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• After the giant’s arrival, children .......................play in the garden.
• The giant.......................expel children.
• Birds.......................migrate to find warmer climate.

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