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Pinocchio Teaching Resources – PowerPoint Presentation
Pinocchio Now – there’s no point in pretending here – I was, and still am deep down, a puppet. Everyone knows Pinocchio is a puppet. I reckon I must be just about the most famous puppet the world has ever known. But the truth is I’m not just a puppet, I’m more than just bits of wood and string. I’m me. So I thought it was about time that I, Pinocchio, told you my story…
Pinocchio is the famous story of the naughty puppet who is desperate to become a real boy, retold in his own words.
Running Away Running away, I very soon discovered, has its problems. First of all it rained; it rained cats and dogs, chucked it down. And then I got hungry, tummy-gurgling hungry. On and on I ran through the rain, down country lanes, past cottages, through villages. Out of every window wafted scents of baking bread or roasting meat. But whenever I stopped to beg for a morsel of food they shouted at me, told me to go away or they’d set the dog on me.
Q. How does Michael Morpurgo capture Pinocchio’s voice in the story?
Running Away Running away, I very soon discovered, has its problems. First of all it rained; it rained cats and dogs, chucked it down. And then I got hungry, tummy-gurgling hungry. On and on I ran through the rain, down country lanes, past cottages, through villages. Out of every window wafted scents of baking bread or roasting meat. But whenever I stopped to beg for a morsel of food they shouted at me, told me to go away or they’d set the dog on me.
Q. How does Michael Morpurgo capture Pinocchio’s Q. What happened next? voice in the story?
Running Away Some old man with his night cap on leaned out of his window and bellowed, ‘Get lost!’ And because I didn't move, he threw a pail of water all over me. And then because I still wouldn’t go – he fired his blunderbuss at me. I had to leg it then, didn’t I?
Exploring Vocabulary Choices Some old man with his night cap on leaned out of his window and bellowed, ‘Get lost!’ And because I didn't move, he threw a pail of water all over me. And then because I still wouldn’t go – he fired his blunderbuss at me. I had to leg it then, didn’t I? Q. Why might Michael Morpurgo have chosen to use the words pail and blunderbuss?
Pinocchio Now – there’s no point in pretending here – I was, and still am deep down, a puppet. Everyone knows Pinocchio is a puppet. I reckon I must be just about the most famous puppet the world has ever known. But the truth is I’m not just a puppet, I’m more than just bits of wood and string. I’m me. So I thought it was about time that I, Pinocchio, told you my story…
Pinocchio is the famous story of the naughty puppet who is desperate to become a real boy, retold in his own words.