Task:
Choose one picture card from the pile that shows people and things that you know from fairy tales and one from the pile “modern world”.
Write a story using both things/people. It should have a beginning, a middle (main part) and an ending. To make your story more interesting use adverbs, adjectives, time phrases and linking words. Find an interesting and/or funny way to finish your story.
From cold to warm
Once upon a time there was an old witch with a cat. The witch always ate a cold soup with a frog, but that was very boring, thought the witch. She needed something else. But in her world, there were only frogs. The witch was sad every day.
On a nice day, the witch sat in her garden with her cat and ate her soup with a frog. Suddenly, she had an idea. She went in her house and packed her bag, then she went to her cooking pot and cooked something.
Suddenly she was gone. The house was empty. Where was the witch? The cat looked everywhere, but the witch was gone.
At the same time the witch sat on a big road and it was loud. She heard car horns, but she didn´t know what that noise was.
She went to a little house in a park. The house stank and in it, there was a white bowl with a button. The witch pushed the button and water came into the white bowl. She thought: “Here is water and a chair, so I sleep here!” She didn´t know that the house was a toilet house.
The next day, the witch drank water from the white bowl and then she went out. She walked along a road with lots of nice houses. Suddenly, when she looked into a house through a window, she saw a big chicken in a …. The witch got big eyes. She saw a box with a window and lots of buttons and the chicken was turning. The witch went to the front door, it was open, she went in and searched the box with the chicken. She found I in the kitchen and got it.
She drank something and suddenly she was back in her own world and in her little house with her cat. She ate a big soup with a chicken and was very, very happy.
The next time, the witch ate soups with frogs, which she warmed up in the MICROWAVE. That was better than a cold frog.
byTamara Weber
Leon Hammann 01.06.2012
No way out?
Hello, my name is Flitzi. I was born on the farm of farmer Johnson in 1963. My father is a flamingo and my lovely mother- God rest her soul!- was a bantam. So it is logic, that I have a little pink body with long brown legs. You would not believe it, but I am the prettiest bird of our farm and probably also the luckiest. The story, that I want you to tell began last winter.
On a Sunday last winter I got sick. The farmer thought what to do with me: When he wanted to kill me I would be his meal but when he didn’t kill me he could take care of me. But the farmer wanted to kill and roust me. He thought I was dead but I didn’t die. When I was in the microwave my friend Struppi pulled the switch to cut the electronic currency and the microwave got cold and I survived. I went to the chicken coop and my friend Struppi put a frozen chicken in to the microwave so the farmer thought I was the chicken in the microwave. Farmer Johnson ate the chicken and had a yummy meal for this Sunday.
I had caught a cold however before hand, but because the microwave was warm I became healthy again . I thanked by my friend for the help, because it he hadn’t helped me I would been chicken nuggets now. But I didn’t want to think of this so I was happy that I was still here on the farm. I said to Struppi: When you need help then call me. I want to help you because you helped me. So I had still a long and happy life here on the farm. THE END
Berthold Mark, 02.06.2012
Once upon a time there was a chicken, a normal chicken. It should be slaughtered, like the other chicken. It should be a chicken meal for the microwave, „Put the chicken into the microwave and wait 20 minutes“.
The chicken was dead after it was killed by a butcher with an axe. It was packed into a package. A woman moved to the city and was new there, she bought stuff in the mall: Food, something to drink, a microwave etc. for her apartment.
She went home and placed the microwave in the kitchen. The woman was very hungry because of the move from Berlin to Bavaria. The hungry woman put the chicken into the microwave and waited. The timer of the microwave was on 20 minutes, like in the instructions. The microwave did strange sounds, not like other microwaves. After 20 minutes, nothing happend, but the microwave did the strange sounds again. She waited.. After a while, there was still no sound. The angry woman looked at the meal and opened the microwave. She heard a loud birdchirping and knocked back of the microwave. A colorful bird came out and flew out of the window. The woman was very confused. She thought it would be a magic microwave. The woman got up from the floor and the microwave wasn’t there anymore.
The bird flew over the city like the other birds, but the bird had a target, it wanted to destroy all things which you can use to cook meal. The bird wanted that every human became a vegetarian. And it flew over all animals on the world and sprinkled magic powder on the animals. They were invulnerable to human, they could not be killed anymore by the humans.
After all animals were enchanted, the bird disappeared in the sky.
Ten years later, all humans were vegetarians, they only ate vegetables and no meat.
The Princess and the
In a big city lived a girl with her parents and her brother. The name of the girl is Caro. She is 8 years old and she goes into the 3. class. She loves to dress up as a princess. Her favorite color is pink and white. The name of her brother is Kevin. He is 10 years and he goes into the 5. class. He is very nice but sometimes he is lazy and sleeps all day.
Today is Caro’s birthday. She wanted to have a pink computer with a white flowers but she didn`t get the computer. She cried and ran her tree house. The tree hous was beuatyful. In the tree hous there was a mini kitchen and many dolls. On the right side there was a desk with many pencils and many white paper. Around the table there were pink and white chairs.
Later came her brother Kevin in to Caro’s tree house and asked:,, Are you sad ? “
Caro answered:,, Yes, because I never get a computer but I want, want, want a compute !”
Now the brothers had an idea:,, On the east side of the mountains is a small house. In there lives a man and he sells cheap computers”. Caro was very very happy.
At the next day they went to the man with bikes and bought the computer.
The man said:,, This computer is a special computer and I have it from my grandpa and my grandpa from his grandpa. This computer is very very old. Caro said:,, Thank you .” And she gave him the money. The computer was very hard and big and on the display was a sentence
,, The time never changes “ Caro and Kevin were surprised and scared.
Later there were they at home . They went to Caro’s room with the computer and turned the computer on . On the display the sentence came back ,, Time never changes”
They pushed ok and it came a music ,, bing bing bing bing bong bong “
At the right side of the display came a question ,, Do you like to go to the other time ? “
Under the question there were many numbers from years. For example 1960, 1950, or 1530 and many numbers. They pushed the number 1950. Suddenly stood many trees and mountains in Caro’s room and they heard many animals. Kevin said : ,, This is a time machine, this is very very cool . “ Caro was shocked but very surprised.
They looked at the sky and the sky was blue. Behind the tree there was a panda.
Behind Kevin stood the computer and he pushed the number xxxx. In two minutes there stood a dino behind Caro and spoke to Caro : ,, Wake up Caro wake up , this is a dream and this is not real .” Caro looked them into the eyes and she heard a ,, kling kling kling kling “
Caro opened her eyers and saw her clock. At was 9, clock and today was Caro’s
Birthday.
She got up and looked around. In her room there were no trees and no animals.
Behind the door stood a big present with a card. Caro opened it:
Happy birthday Caro!!!!
The is your present from : Kevin, Papa, and Mum
Caro made opened and said: Please please !!!!!!!!
It was not a computer but a doll with many clothes. Caro went to her mum and said:,, Thank you mum , I am very very happy that it is not a computer !!!!!!
Later came Caros friends and Caro made a fantastic birthday pary with many many sweets a games.
by Hanna Benenson
End
Some years ago there was a little witch who wanted to have a mobile phone. Her strict parents didn’t allow her to have one, so the witch was very sad.
After she had cried a while she decided to make one on her own. So, she took a small piece of wood and tried to make one herself. It took a week of hard work but when – it was early in the morning – she solved the problem and got a wonderful mobile phone with beautiful dark wood. She could only phone with it, but not listen music or surf the internet. That was a pity. One day she recognizedthat it was able to speak with her. It told great stories which were true and really happened.
The best story was one of a golden ring which belonged to a very rich man. The mobile phine told the witch that it wanted to see the rich man and the beautiful ring and so they decided to visit the man because the witch was very thankful to have her mobile phone as her best friend and she wanted to make its wish come true. So, they went to the man and after they had arrived they rang the doorbell. The man opened them and looked at them surprise by. He looked exactly as the mobile phone had described him. He had grey short hair, a long beard and brown eyes and seemed to be very old, because of the big round glasses on his small nose. He looked a little bit strict and reminded the witch of her daddy.
At that moment the mobile phone suddenly opend its mouth and showed its sharp teeth. It bit the fingers of the man, took the ring and ran away, while it was laughing pretty insane. The man cried and screamed and jumped up and down while holding his hurting finger.
The witch was totally shocked and ran away. She promised herself never to do magic again.
by Aneke Below
The microwave and
his friend
Once upon a time there was a small silver microwave, the microwave had not got much friends, so his father sent him to the electronicgadget pathfinder because his father thought that the microwave finds friends there.
The microwave took the bus to the pathfinder camp. He was the only thing in the bus so he was very lonely, but he was very excited about his trip to the camp, too.
When he was at the camp he saw the other pathfinders, which were really strong ovens. When the ovens saw the small and light microwave, they came to him and said: “ O look at this light micro wave, I bet you can’t bake a big apple pie in under ten minutes!” “No, but I can make good scarfs, carpets and other things out of wool!”, answered the microwave shy. “Oh you can well knit, so you knit new clothes for us or you will go off. After that the ovens went away. One hour later the camphead, a white dishwater said, who was with them in a campingtent, the microwave knit some clothes for the ovens until all the other slept, but at 0 o’clock the toaster woke up and asked the microwave:”What are you doing at this time?” “I’m knitting some clothes for the bad ovens!” “Yes and you?” “Yes, I must make their math homework, so I understand you and I will help you to knit the clothes for the oven!”, said the toaster.
“Thank you, than let’s go!” The two knitted all the night long and then the two showed the ovens the clothes they said:”Good work, but I need a present for my mother so knit a big carpet for me now that looks like a carpet out of the orient!” The two looked at a book with carpets out the orients, but the only that they found is a book that’s named Aladin. That must be enough!”, said the microwave. In the afternoon of this day the microwave and the toaster read the book Aladin and they found in the book an old paper with a carpet instruction and at the top of the paper stood “flying carpet” instruction but the two ignored that. The microwave and the toaster knitted all the night long the carpet and when the sun went up they were ready. One hour before the two had to give the carpets to the ovens, they will wash the carpets, but suddenly the carpet began to fly, it was not a normal carpet it was a “flying carpet”. “ Wow, it is a “flying carpet”!”, said the microwave. “Please go up creaters!”, said the flying carpet. “Wow, you can talk!”, said the microwave. “Yes, but please get up creaters!” “Ok I think we can trust him! ”Where do you want to fly?”, asked the flying carpet. But before the two could say anything they can hear the ovens cry. “Monster!” The microwave and the toaster looked down the flying carpet, saw the scared ovens and they said to them:”No matter, we are the monster and we are not angry about you, because if you didn’t tell us that you wanted a carpet we had never found that!”
After that the microwave and his new friend the toaster flew away and had a very nice life together and they are not dead they are still flying today.
The End
by Leon Ebert
The Firering
Once upon a time there was a woman who was called Jane.She lived in a house with a big garden.
One day Jane found a ring in her garden. It was a beautiful ring with a big red diamond. The red looked like fire, Jane thought.She took the ring into her house and went to bed. The next day she looked for the ring but she didn’t find it and then she couldn’t believe her eyes ;there was a big beautiful bird in her house she had never seen a bird like that. Then she wanted to give the bird a name. She thought about a lot of names but then she chose the name ‚Surprise‘ for it. After a week Surprise started to fly in the house and Jane was surprised because if Surprise started to fly it looks like a firebird .Jane searched the Internet which sort of bird it was but she found no bird like Surprise .
The next day she went outside the house into her garden with Surprise but she had made a long rope around Surprise’s foot that Surprise didn’t fly away. She held the rope and was looking at Surprise .After a while Surprise flew back down and went to Jane and they went inside the house. Jane gave him some food and then she went to bed. The next day Jane had to go to work when she came back from work she saw that Surprise had make a mess in her house. She noticed that Surprise wasn’t a pet and that Surprise wanted to be outside but she didn’t want to lose him. So she wanted to keep Surprise only for one week. The following day she had to go to her work again but before she went she made the rope around his foot and then she went away.
When she came back from her work Surprise wasn’t on the rope. She thought that Surprise flew away but then she saw it on the sky.She called him and Surprise flew down but before Surprise touched the ground he transformed into a ring but not only a ring, the ring Jane had found some time ago.
From that day to the end of her life Jane always wore that ring.
by Lisa Engelbach
The tennis-playing Princess
Once upon a time there was a princess named Linda .She lived in a big castle with her
family and their servants in the year 1738. She loved sports but she hadn’t a favourite sport.
On a spring day the princess made a little trip with her horse named Emily into the forest as
She suddenly came off the way and was next to a small fountain.
There was sitting a troll and asked her for a benefit. He wanted her to bring him
a few strawberries from the castle garden and if she brought him the strawberries, he would
enable her one wish.
The next day she brought him the strawberries and said:” I want to know my
favourite sport.“ The troll answered:” If you want to find out what your favorite sport, is you
need to know every single sport activity. And when you know that, there will be a time
machine that is going bring you to the future and you will see a lot of new awersome sports.”
“Thank you!!”,Linda said.With the time machine she travelled into the year 2010.
She saw a lot of new things like soccer, hockey, baseball etc. and she tried evetyrhing out,
but nothing really fitted to her. As she was about to give up, she noticed a young man
playing alone against a wall. As he noticed her, he asked her whether she wanted to play a
match with him. She agreed and had a lot of fun.
She realized that she had found her personal, favourite sport.
Full of joy, she went back to 1738 and told her butlers to build a tennis court behind the
castle.From that time on, she played tennis every day and won a lot of match.
by Max Longinus
The bird prince
Once upon a time lived a prince called William, his father and king Rüdiger and his brother Henry in a beautiful castle. All of the people who lived in the kingdom loved the royal family. As Willim celebrated his 18th birthday the whole kingdom came and gave him presents.
One girl was in love with the prince and stood next to him every time. William wasn´t in love with the girl and rejected her. The girl was very angry and cursed William because she was a witch. The prince turned into a bird and flew away. He thought that everybody would repudiate him because he wasn´t a prince anymore. William flew into the wood and lived there alone in a treehole.
What he didn´t know was that on the other side of the wood there was another kingdom with a very very pretty princess called Kate. The princess was eighteen too and she had to find another prince to marry him because she couldn´t be a queen without a prince.
One year later when William ate just a few grains, Kate walked in the wood to collect some berries and saw William. The prince fell in love with her. He flew behind her and introduced himself. Kate understood the bird and listened to him. William told her about the witch and that he had lived here for a year. The princess was shocked and promised to help him.
On the next day, they met at the same place as yesterday and planned how they could find the evil witch. As William told the name of the witch ´´Nathalia´´ Kate knows who she was.
,,She´s my chambermaid.´´ said Kate. ,,She is in my room everyday and cleans it.´´
Willim said:,, That´s good, that´s really good. You can surprise her and tie her up.´´
They planned the assassination and what did they do after Kate she had tied up. After one hour they were ready and at the next day it started. Kate tied up the witch and sat her on a chair. Shortly afterwards William flew in and set on a chair opposite the witch. He said she should turn him back or he´ll kill her.
The witch agreed und turned him back because she was selfish and didn´t want to die. William flew into the air and it glittered around him. Shortly after the little bird there was a pretty prince and Kate fell in love with him immediately.
The witch was locked up in jail and rot there her whole life. William and Kate got married and got a very beautiful little girl a year later. The two kingdoms lived in peace and were ruled be William and Kate.
by Mina Dewald
Midnight ghost
In an old, detached house near the forest of Dover strange things happened. At midnight some inhabitants of the village that were near the old house experienced a few minutes of horror because all the blinds of the house suddenly closed by itself. In this moment, they heard a sound of a mobile phone.
They were curious and went careful to the house and rang the bell. After a while nobody opened the door. The inhabitants rang the bell again but nothing happened. They did worry and went into the house to look to see if everything is OK.
They looked in all the rooms and in the bedroom an old grandmother was dead in the bed. They were very shocked, they left the house and the village and came never back.
Only rarely people passed this house at night.
Many years later, after a long search, new inhabitants moves into the house. When suddenly their mobile phone rang at midnight the ghost came and closed all the blinds. The new inhabitants panicked and tried to run out of the house but the ghost stopped them.
After long talks the inhabitants knew why the ghost did it. The first inhabitants of the house, the good old grandmother Katie suffered a heavy heart attack and died, when the mobile phone rang at midnight.
In her memory, the ghost always closed the blinds at midnight when a mobile phone rang.
by Anika Laun and Laura Achenbach
Ghost and Tennisplayers
Once upon a time, there was a ghost called Hugo. Hugo flew alone every nigh, because there were no more ghosts in his city. One night he saw light in the gym. So he flew to the gym because he wanted to see the reason for the light. He saw a big poster. The yearly midnight tennis match take place this night was written on the poster. So, he flew into the gym.
Nobody noticed him, because humans can’t see him, only the gym’s owners dog barked a bit. Hugo took the dog and set him on the gym’s roof. Then he stole some balls and cut some patterns into the nets. The people thought that it should be a gag of the host. But Hugo thought that wasn’t enough. He took the extinguisher and sprayed into the audience. They ran out of the hall and called the police, but they only laughed at them. The players didn’t noticed that the audience was gone. That made Hugo angry and he thought about new pranks against the players. He kicked them and made them fall on the ground, but they only stood up and played again. Now, he took the players into the air. They ran out and called the police again but they said, that they are arrested if they call again. The oldest player said that he is willing to go into the gym, and look what’s up there. He went in and after 10 minutes the other players were worried about him, but nobody wanted to go in. Then they heard an evil laugh and a bark from the roof. The gym’s owner recognized his dog and tried to climb on the roof. He came to the highest window but there he lost his trousers and hang there with the underpants.
The ghost thought, that he made enough trouble that night and started to fly home, but when he left the gym a sunbeam hit him and he died. He fell as white bed sheet down on the players. They went into the hall and saw that the oldest player hung in the basketball basket. They saved him and ate the rest of the cake. Nobody thought of the poor gym owner, so he hung there the rest of the morning. An old woman took the bed sheet.
And if she did not die, she is still sleeping on it.
by Paul Kollatz
