Today’s competition:
Write out the correction abbreviation, including
the apostrophe e.g. I am  I’m
Easy
Medium
Hard
1 point each
2 points each
1. I have
1. should not
1. does not
2. I will
2. would not
2. might have
3. you are
3. are not
3. shall not
3 points each
Easy
Medium
Hard
1 point each
2 points each
3 points each
1. I have
I’ve
1. should not
1. does not
 shouldn’t
 doesn’t
2. I will
2. would not
 I’ll
3. you are
 you’re
 wouldn’t
3. are not
 aren’t
2. might have
 might’ve
3. shall not
 shan’t
Satire
Lesson Aim: to adapt our
fairytales using satire
Satire is when you change something
conventional to make it funny.
Shrek is a good example of a satirical fairytale.
The four techniques of satire:
Exaggeration
To enlarge, increase or represent something beyond normal bounds so
it becomes ridiculous.
e.g. Princess Fiona fights and successfully defeats all of Robin Hood’s gang without
any help or any weapons.
Incongruity
To present something that is out of place or absurd in relation to its
surroundings.
e.g. Princess Fiona uses her ponytail to deliver a knockout punch to one of the
Merry Men. While frozen in a mid-air martial arts kick, Princess Fiona pauses to
fix her disheveled hair before knocking out two of the Merry Men.
Reversal
To present the opposite of the normal order of things.
e.g. the roles of the hero and the damsel in distress have been reversed. In this clip,
it is Princess Fiona, the rescuee, who fights and defeats the foe.
Parody
To imitate the style/techniques of a famous person, place or thing.
e.g. the fight scene is an exaggerated imitation of the martial arts style and special
effects used in movies such as The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Watching Shrek clips and filling in the grid:
In the Forest
Shrek Ending
Who can remember
how Shrek starts?
Once upon a time, there lived a
beautiful princess…
Page is ripped out of fairytale book
and used as toilet paper by Shrek,
the ogre, in his swamp.
Once upon a time there was a handsome, hard-working
and popular teacher named Mr Coupland. The school he
worked in was nestled in a beautiful old village where
every Sunday there was a party on the meadow. The
sun always shone on Mr Coupland because it saw that
he made the lives of all his students better. At the end of
every school year his house was filled with gifts from
grateful parents and grateful students. Mr Coupland’s life
was pretty perfect. The only thing that could have made
his life better was a beautiful wife. Mr Coupland was still
in love with his childhood sweetheart, Jemima, but she
had moved to a different country many years ago and Mr
Coupland did not know where she lived anymore.
-You can see a print out of part of my new satirical fairytale.
-Around it, are some comments with words missing.
-You need to copy out the sentences and fill in the missing words.
-I would like you to try to think of words to fill in the gaps.
-If you are really stuck, I will consider giving you a word bank but
you should try to work without it.
-Extension – when you finish all the sentences, get a different part
of the story from me with different sentences to copy and
complete.
The writer has kept the conventional phrase ‘once upon a time’ because
children will know this is a ______________ . It is also a way of bringing
________________ into the fairytale, because it is an example of parody.
The name ‘Mr Hobgoblin’ is better than ‘Mr Coupland’ because it is
________________ for children to remember, it sounds _______________
and it makes you think he is probably a __________________ character.
Once upon a time there was a handsome, hard-working
and popular teacher named Mr Hobgoblin. That’s how
he would have described himself, anyway. His students
would have described him as nasty, mean and smelly.
The way Mr Hobgoblin thinks he is great but his
students hate him suggests that he is a __________
man and the reader ___________ like him.
These are the sort of words ______________ would use. The writer has
chosen these words because the fairytale is meant to be read by
_____________________ .
The writer creates a contrast between the ____________ setting
and the _____________ Mr Hobgoblin. This reinforces what a
____________ character Mr Hobgoblin is.
The school he worked in was nestled in a beautiful old
village where every Sunday there was a party on the
meadow, but Mr Hobgoblin had never been to the party.
He would glare out of his windows at the smiling,
dancing, happy little disgusting children and curse the
day he had ever become a teacher.
‘Happy little disgusting’ is an unusual phrase. The word
‘disgusting’ seems to be from Mr ____________ point of
view. It reinforces the idea that he is a _____________
character.
The word ‘glare’ is not a nice word. If Mr Hobgoblin
was nice he could __________ out of his windows.
The raincloud is typical of _______________ stories,
where good characters live in the sunshine.
‘Grumpy’ is a word often used in stories for
____________ and the writer has used it here
because the story is aimed at them.
There was always a raincloud over Mr Hobgoblin’s head
because he was so grumpy that even the weather hated
him. But the strangest thing of all was that Mr Hobgoblin
liked his life this way. He thought his life was pretty
perfect.
The narrator makes very clear to the ___________
that Mr Hobgoblin is an unusual ___________ by
using the word ‘_____________’
Mr Hobgoblin’s strangeness is emphasised by the fact that he thinks his life is
‘pretty perfect’. The reader thinks that his life is ________________ and
_____________ perfect.
Using ‘a very long time ago’ reminds the ____________ that this is a
_______________________ , despite being unconventional.
Mr Hobgoblin had once had a girlfriend, a very
long time ago, but she was far too nice to him so
he told her to move away, as far as she could go,
preferably to a whole different country. So she did.
And now Mr Hobgoblin was all alone.
Exaggeration is one of the techniques of_________________ .
__________ sentence gives a sense of humour.
Normally this sentence might make the reader feel ______________ for Mr
Hobgoblin, but because he has been described as such a
___________________ man, we don’t pity him at all.
Satirise your own opening
paragraph
Read over the opening paragraph of your
fairytale.
Now rewrite your opening, adding satirical
techniques. I will give you some examples
of what to do on the next slide…
Make the
names
humorous
Help me satirise!
Insert
incongruous
items e.g. mobile
phones in an
ancient setting
Bring in typical
characters from old
fairytales and update
them
Make normally
beautiful
characters into
ugly
characters
Make normally
weak characters
into strong
characters