Today I am helping facilitate a teacher training with my supervisor. She recently spent a month at an English teacher training held in Signapore. Upon her return, she is required to share some of the activities/techniques that she learned. Generally I don't particularly enjoy teacher trainings, but one of the activities today was loads of fun. The teachers were given Roald Dahl's version of Little Red Riding Hood (in poem form) and had to perform it. I love this version and greatly enjoyed their performances.

This is the chorus and the grandmother.

Little Red Riding Hood (Roald Dahl)

As soon as the wolf began to feel

That he would like a decent meal.

He went and knocked on Grandma's door.

When Grandma opened it, she saw...

The sharp white teeth, the horrid grin.

and wolfie said...

May I come in?

And Grandmama was terrified.

He's going to eat me up!

she cried.

And she was absolutely right.

He ate her up in one big bite!

But Grandmama was small and tough and wolfie wailed...

That's not enough! I haven't yet begun to feel,

That I have had a decent meal!

he ran around the kitchen yelping...

I've got to have a second helping!

Then added with a frightful leer,

I'm going therefore to wait right here!

Till little Miss Riding Hood

Comes home from walking in the wood.

He quickly put on Grandma's clothes,

(of course he hadn't eaten those)

He dressed himself in coat and hat.

he put on shoes and after that.

He even brushed and curled his hair.

Then sat himself in Grandma's chair.

In came the little girl in red.

She stopped. She stared. And then she said...

What great big ears you have, Grandma.

All the better to hear you with.

The wolf replied.

What great big eyes you have, Grandma.

All the better to see you with,

The wolf replied.

He sat there watching her and smiled.

He thought...

I'm going to eat this child. Compared with her

Old grandmama, she's going to taste like caviar!

Then Little Red Riding Hood said,

But Grandma, what a lovely great big furry coat you have on!

That's wrong

cried wolf...

Have you forgot?

To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got!!!

Ah well, no matter what you say,

I'm going to eat you anyway.

The small girl smiles, one eyelid flickers.

She whips a pistol from her knickers.

She aims it at the creature's head

And BANG! BANG! She shoots him dead.

A few weeks later, in the wood

I came across Miss Riding Hood.

But what a change, no cloak of red.

No silly hood upon her head. She said,

"HELLO" and please do note...

My lovely furry Wolfskin Coat!