Teacher's Notes: The Princess and the Pea
This is another well-known tale, but it has a different ending. By now, most of the common verbs should be at least very familiar to the students. To make sure they are remembered, these verbs as well as other vocab words to review will be listed in the target vocab for specific stories that they are in.
The worksheets for this story start to use more fill-in sentences, providing easy examples of use and contexts in which to remember the words.
New Words
run away
anymore
fancy
definitely
field
wind
blow
lightning
knock
horrible
polite
wet
lie
doubtful
sparkling
pity
mattress
uncomfortable
exhausted
admit
pea
shocked
sneak
gorgeous
exclaim
Worksheet Answers
Questions: Accept suitable answers such as 1. She didn’t want to be a princess. 2. It was raining. 3. He thought she was a gorgeous princess. 4. It had nine mattresses. 5. Her bed was uncomfortable and she couldn’t sleep. 6. She felt the pea. 7. She put a pea under the prince’s mattress. 8. He wasn’t a real prince, so she wouldn’t be a real princess.
Synonyms: run away – leave home; definitely – certainly, really; horrible – terrible; polite – courteous; lie – when you say something that is not true; sparkling – shiny; shocked – surprised; gorgeous – beautiful; exclaim – shout
Match the pictures: (left to right) lightning, mattress, fancy, field, exhausted, blow, pea, doubtful, knock, wet
Sentences: 1. anymore, 2. run away, 3. field, 4. wind, 5. fancy, 6. blow, 7. knocked, 8. lightning, 9. horrible, 10. doubtful, 11. sparkling, 12. definitely, 13. wet, 14. polite, 15. exhausted
Sentences, 2nd part: 1. lie, 2. pity, 3. uncomfortable, 4. peas, 5. gorgeous, 6. admitted, 7. shocked, 8. mattress, 9. exclaimed, 10. sneaked
