The legend of The legend of the red dragon of the red dragon of WalesWalesRetold by the students of 5-C form Retold by the students of 5-C form Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium, Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium, Kirovohrad, Ukraine.Kirovohrad, Ukraine.

Hello, dear friends. We are the students of the 5-C form Taras Shevchenko Gymnasium, Kirovohrad, Ukraine.

We really like fairy tales, so we decided to take part in this project together with our teachers – Mrs. Dudich, a teacher of English and Mrs. Kolot, a teacher of Literature.

As you can see, we have a flag of Wales in our English classroom, so it was interesting for us to learn the legend of the red dragon of Wales.

This is how we worked This is how we worked on the project:on the project:

Our teachers printed out illustrations made by Welsh

kids.

We discussed the legend first in Ukrainian, then

in English.

We tried to retell the tale and here is what we have:

A mighty king wants to A mighty king wants to build a castle.build a castle.

Once upon a time, Once upon a time, there was a King in there was a King in Wales. He wanted to Wales. He wanted to build a castle. At build a castle. At night his servants night his servants built a wall, but in the built a wall, but in the morning it was morning it was ruined. Next night ruined. Next night they built the wall they built the wall again.again.

A castle in ruins.A castle in ruins.

The wall was built The wall was built during the day and during the day and ruined at night three ruined at night three times. The King was times. The King was upset. He thought : upset. He thought : “What is wrong? “What is wrong? What is happening? What is happening? Why can’t I build a Why can’t I build a castle?”castle?”

Asking for advice.Asking for advice.

The King asked for The King asked for help. He sent a help. He sent a servant to find a wise servant to find a wise boy who could boy who could explain why the explain why the castle was ruined castle was ruined every night. The wise every night. The wise boy knew how to boy knew how to stop it.stop it.

Help is coming…Help is coming…

The servant found a The servant found a young boy who had young boy who had no father and took no father and took him to the king.him to the king.

The boy makes The boy makes everything clear.everything clear.

There was a lake There was a lake near the castle. The near the castle. The boy told the King to boy told the King to look under the lake look under the lake and he would find and he would find why his castle was why his castle was ruined.ruined.

The dragons under the The dragons under the lake.lake.

The King and his The King and his men went under the men went under the lake. There they saw lake. There they saw two dragons – the two dragons – the red one and the red one and the white one. They were white one. They were fighting every night fighting every night and the ground was and the ground was shaking so strong shaking so strong that the castle was that the castle was ruinedruined..

The red dragon wins!The red dragon wins!

Some time passed Some time passed and the red dragon and the red dragon finally won and killed finally won and killed the white dragon. the white dragon. The King could now The King could now build his castle. He build his castle. He was very happy. The was very happy. The red dragon lived red dragon lived happily in Wales.happily in Wales.

The flag of Wales.The flag of Wales.

Today the flag of Today the flag of Wales has the red Wales has the red dragon on it. People dragon on it. People believe that the red believe that the red dragon protects its dragon protects its land.land.

Now we know the Now we know the story of the flag that story of the flag that is hanging in our is hanging in our English classroom!English classroom!

This is the flag of Wales from our classroom.

Dear friends, we are Hanna Dudich and Olena Kolot. We are sisters and work as teachers at the same school. We are really excited to be

a part of this project. We and our children enjoyed it a lot! We learned something new about the culture of other countries and

shared some facts about the culture of Ukraine. It was a useful and very interesting experience.