Language Resources
Thinking & Learning through Fairy Tales
in Modern Foreign Languages
The traditional story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff is brought to life in an interactive version, set in the wild Cheviot hills of Northumberland and is available in four languages.
Click on the links to open the stories, then press F11 to view full screen.
A Resource Manual and a printed version of the story are also available and these can now be purchased as a pack from Optimus Education entitled Learning Languages Through Fairy Tales.
The pack contains two stories: The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with an extensive range of activities to make teaching and learning primary languages easy and fun, whether you are an experienced linguist or have limited language skills.
Find out more about this innovative and award winning approach to teaching languages here.
Image galleries
Click on an image to enlarge, then right click to save or copy to any program such as Word, Smart Notebook, Comic Life, 2Publish+, 2Create a Story etc. Background images will scale up to A4 size and characters have transparent backgrounds.
Use the empty backgrounds with the characters below to create your own version of the story in your chosen language.
There's also a Smart Notebook Gallery Collection file to download which contains all the background images and characters.
Backgrounds gallery
Scene gallery
Character gallery
Smart Notebook Gallery collection file
The images from the story have also been collated to produce a Smart Notebook collection file.
If you have Smart Notebook installed on your computer, when you click on the collection file below and choose 'Open', Smart Notebook will open and a Trois Boucs Bourrus folder will be created in the 'My Content' folder in your Gallery.
This folder will contain 37 images which can be used to create your own resources. It will appear each time you open Smart Notebook unless you choose to delete.
