WhimsicalLL

Jó, jó, tudom, hogy a Shrek 2 óta ez már többé nem lesz ugyanaz, de attól ez még klasszikus... :D

Bármit lehet vele kezdeni: összekeverni a bekezdéseket, hogy aztán sorrendbe tegyék; van benne egy pseudo-cloze feladat, ahol minden üres helyre egyetlen szót lehet beírni; ki lehet emelni a bemutatott módon bámilyen hasznosnak vélt kifejezést, melyekkel aztán lehet tovább ügyeskedni.

Ez utóbbira példa: ha már volt briars és thorns, akkor ki mennyi szinonímát tud még gyűjteni, persze netes segítséggel. De ugyanez az ötlet bármelyik egyéb szóra, vagy akár kifejezésre is működhet.

There was once a castle which stood in the middle of the forest, surrounded by beautiful gardens. (1) _________ it lived a king and a queen, and one day a baby daughter as lovely as a flower was born to them. They called her Rose.

One night, (2) _________ the queen lay in her bed with the baby asleep in its cot beside her, three fairies appeared, (3) __________ candles in their hands. The queen held her breath in wonder, and watched as a blue-eyed fairy bent over the cot and said:

'You shall be as pretty (4) _______ a rosebud and as good as gold.'
Then a black-eyed fairy gave the baby a different fate:
'Your life will be rosy, (5) __________ short; you will prick your finger on a spindle and die.'
But the third fairy, whose eyes were grey, kissed the child and partly took away the evil curse:
'You will not die, (6) ___________ sleep, until someone comes and finds you (7) ________ the roses.'

The queen thought she must be dreaming, and she wanted to cry out, but the fairies put out their candles and disappeared in the dark. The queen at once ran to tell the king all that (8) ___________ happened. The next day the king gave orders for all spindles and spinning-wheels in the castle to be collected and burnt, hoping to save Princess Rose from the evil fairy's curse.

So the little princess grew bigger and bigger and more and more beautiful every day. She did not learn to spin (9) _________ other girls did, but just played all day long. But one day, when she was fifteen years old, she was playing in the garden with a golden ball, when it rolled into the thicket beside the old tower. When she went to look for it, she found a little door let (10) ________ the tower.


Opening the door, Princess Rose climbed up a flight of winding steps, until she came right to the top of the tower. (11) _________, in a tiny room, a wizened old woman sat beside a spinning-wheel. The princess was fascinated by the spinning-wheel, (12) ___________ having seen one in her life, and she sat down beside the old woman and began to finger it. Before she knew it, she had pricked her finger on the spindle, and in a trice she fell to the ground, fast asleep.

No sooner had the little princess fallen asleep, than everyone and everything in the castle went to sleep too. (13) _________ the rose bushes in the garden went on growing, and they grew and grew until they had overgrown the whole castle.

Time passed, and the princess slept on.

Many a rich prince came in search of the castle, crossing mountains and felling forests, but all in vain. (14) _________ was successful.
Then, one day, a merry young man called Jack was making his way through the forest, singing softly to himself. He was a wandering minstrel, travelling from one castle or great house to, singing for his supper and serving no man, for he had (15) __________ wish to be rich or famous. He had lost his way, when he suddenly smelt the perfume of wild roses.

As he walked towards the briars, quietly singing the old song which told of the sleeping beauty among the thorns, the rose bushes parted to let him through, and arched above him to form a covered walk (16) _________ right up to the castle.

Jack wandered all through the castle, but nothing moved. When he (17) ____________ examined everything, he came at last to the little door in the tower. He ran up the steps and found the wizened old woman sleeping beside her spinning-wheel, while a beautiful young girl slept (18) __________ her feet - Princess Rose.
As Jack gazed at the sleeping princess, he was so struck by her beauty that he (19) __________ stopped breathing. He lifted her towards him, stroked her golden hair, and kissed her lips. At that instant the old woman disappeared in a puff of smoke and the sleeping beauty woke lip. She had scarcely opened her pretty blue eyes, when she took Jack (20) ___________ the hand and said to him:
'Come on, let's go and see Mother and Father,' as if they had known each other all lives.

(21) __________ moment they went out into the garden everything came to life.
The king and queen wept to see their daughter again; then the trumpets sounded, and without delay they celebrated the wedding of Princess Rose and Jack the minstrel.

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