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2C TELLING TALES

 Lead in

Discuss the following questions with your friends.

1 Do you think dreams play an important role in
our lives? Why/ Why not?
2 Do you know anyone around you who has
impossible dreams? What kinds of dreams have
they got?
3 What role do books play in our lives? Have you
ever been influenced by a character of a book
you read? of people with his own horse, Rosinante, which
was skinny and weak, but he thought it was the
fastest, best and most powerful horse in the world.
He thought all knights had a beautiful woman that
Reading supported them in every aspect of life. On his way, he
saw an ugly peasant girl, Dulcinea, but he regarded
her as a very beautiful girl from a noble family and as
a Discuss the following questions with your partner. his love. The last thing he was supposed to do was to

1 Have you read Don Quixote before? If yes, what be declared a knight officially. Thus, he went to an inn
do you remember about the story? which he considered a castle and its innkeeper a lord
2 Look at the photo and talk about it with your and requested the man to give him a rank of honour.
The innkeeper figured out how mad Quixote was and
friends. pretended to be a lord and honoured Quixote with
knighthood.
He, again, set off for Spain to look for new
b Read the text below and try to guess the meanings adventures. He crossed over mountains, green
of the highlighted words. highlands and walked through forests. On his three-
DON QUIXOTE day journey, he came across a group of merchants
and tried to persuade them how incredibly beautiful
Living in the 17 century, Alonso Quixano was a Dulcinea was. They refused to accept Dulcinea’s great
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middle-aged man who liked reading chivalry books beauty, so he fought with them. He came back home
and admired knights riding on horses and their to recover as he was badly beaten and wounded.
adventurous lives. He was mad about fantasies Quixote’s friends, who were a barber and a priest,
described in these stories and he started to be were aware of his delusions and they tried to persuade
incredibly obsessed with knighthood, losing his him to give up his impossible dreams and burnt all his
mind. He believed that the whole world had to be books about knighthood. However, that only caused
rescued from the evil and the only person that could Quixote to show stronger determination. After the
achieve that was himself. failure of battling with merchants, he persuaded
He changed his name to Don Quixote, put on Sancho Panza, who was a fat farmer and not a very
a suit of armour, imagined himself as a real knight smart neighbour of Quixano, to be sidekick of him,
and started to live in his dream world. Besides, he promising to turn Sancho into one of the richest men
would do whatever a knight had to do. He set off to in the country. After that, Sancho and Quixote got
travel round the world to get it rid of all wrongdoings together to have new adventures. He provided food,

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