English Listening & Fluency | Read, Listen, Speak | Little Red Riding Hood (B1 Shadowing Practice)

0:00 A girl, a wolf, and a sick grandmother.

0:03 Sounds like a familiar story, right?

0:06 In this video, you will practice your English listening with this story,

0:11 you will improve your vocabulary, and by the end of the video,

0:15 you will be able to tell this story confidently in English.

0:20 So welcome.

0:22 Take a seat in my library.

0:24 Open your ears.

0:26 What big ears you have.

0:28 As we explore the story and history of Little Red Riding Hood.

0:34 So to begin, here is what to expect in this video.

0:39 One, I will read the story with no interruptions.

0:44 You will see the text and be able to follow along with me.

0:49 Two, I will read the story again and explain some of its vocabulary.

0:54 Three, I will ask you seven comprehension

0:57 questions to make sure you understood the story.

1:01 And four, we will do some discussion about the history

1:06 and other interesting details of Little Red Riding Hood.

1:10 And now, I think we are ready to enter

1:13 the forest and begin our journey to Grandma's house.

1:22 Once upon a time, there was a sweet little girl loved

1:26 by everyone who met her, but most of all, by her grandmother.

1:31 The old woman adored her so much that she made her a small red velvet hood.

1:37 It suited her perfectly.

1:39 And from that day on, everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood.

1:45 One morning, her mother said, "I'm so happy to see you,

1:47 Grandma." "Come, Little Red Riding Hood.

1:50 Here's a piece of cake and a bottle of wine.

1:53 Take them to your grandmother.

1:55 She's sick and weak, and this will do her good.

1:59 Go before it gets too hot, and remember to walk carefully.

2:04 Don't stray from the path, or you might fall and break the bottle.

2:09 And when you arrive, don't forget to say good morning before

2:13 you peek around her room." "I'll be careful,

2:17 Mother," said Little Red Riding Hood, and she promised with a smile.

2:22 The grandmother lived deep in the forest, about half a league from the village.

2:28 Just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the woods, a wolf appeared on the path.

2:35 She didn't know what a wicked creature he was, and felt no fear at all.

2:41 "Good morning, Little Red Riding Hood," said the wolf.

2:45 "Good morning, Mr.

2:46 Wolf," she replied politely.

2:49 "Where are you going so early?" he asked.

2:53 "To my grandmother's house," said the girl.

2:57 "And what's that in your basket?" "Cake and wine.

3:02 Grandma's been sick, so Mother sent me to cheer her up."

3:06 "And where does your grandmother live?" asked the wolf.

3:11 "A little farther into the woods, under the three great oak trees near

3:16 the hazel bushes." "You must know it," she said.

3:20 The wolf licked his lips and thought, "What a tender young thing.

3:26 She'll taste even better than the old woman.

3:29 I'll eat them both, but I'll have to be

3:32 clever about it." He walked beside her for a bit,

3:37 then said slyly, "Look how pretty the flowers are here, Little Red Riding Hood.

3:43 Why not pick some for your grandmother?

3:47 And listen, don't you hear how sweetly the birds are singing?

3:51 You walk along so seriously,

3:53 as if you were going to school when the forest is alive with joy."

3:59 Little Red Riding Hood looked up and saw sunlight dancing through the trees,

4:05 making the wildflowers sparkle.

4:08 "Grandma would love a bouquet," she thought.

4:11 "I still have plenty of time." So she stepped off the path to gather flowers.

4:18 Each time she picked one, she saw another even prettier farther away,

4:24 and she wandered deeper and deeper into the forest.

4:29 Meanwhile, the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's

4:33 house and knocked at the door.

4:38 "Who's there?" called the grandmother.

4:42 "It's me, Little Red Riding Hood," said the wolf sweetly.

4:47 "I've brought you cake and wine." "Lift the latch," said the grandmother.

4:54 "I'm too weak to get up." The wolf lifted the latch, pushed open the door,

5:01 and without a word, leapt upon the old woman and swallowed her whole.

5:07 Then he put on her nightgown and cap,

5:10 pulled the curtains, and lay down in her bed.

5:15 When Little Red Riding Hood finally reached the cottage,

5:19 she was surprised to find the door standing open.

5:23 The room felt strange and quiet.

5:26 "Oh, dear," she whispered.

5:28 "Why do I feel so uneasy today?" She called out,

5:33 "Good morning, Grandma!" But there was no answer.

5:39 She went to the bed and drew back the curtains.

5:43 There lay her grandmother, capped pulled low, face shadowed, looking quite odd.

5:51 "Oh, Grandma, what big ears you have!" "The better

5:55 to hear you with, my child," came the growling reply.

6:00 "But, Grandma, what big eyes you have!" "The better to see you with, my dear."

6:08 "And what big hands you have!" "The better to hug you with!" "But, Grandma,

6:14 what a terrible big mouth you have!"

6:18 "The better to eat you with!" roared the wolf, and before she could scream,

6:24 he sprang from the bed and swallowed Little Red Riding Hood whole.

6:30 Full and satisfied, the wolf climbed back

6:34 into bed and soon began to snore loudly.

6:39 "Shhh!" Just then, a passing huntsman heard the noise and muttered,

6:46 "That old woman snores like a beast.

6:49 I should check on her." He stepped inside

6:52 and saw the wolf stretched out in the bed.

6:56 "So it's you, you wicked creature!" he said, raising his gun.

7:02 But then he thought,

7:04 "Maybe the old woman's still inside." So instead of shooting,

7:09 he took a pair of scissors and carefully cut open the wolf's belly.

7:15 After two careful snips, he saw a flash of red inside.

7:21 A few more cuts, and out sprang Little Red Riding Hood, trembling but unharmed.

7:29 "Oh, how frightened I was.

7:32 It was so dark inside!" she cried.

7:36 Then the huntsman cut a little more,

7:39 and out came the grandmother, pale but alive.

7:43 To make sure the wolf could never harm anyone again,

7:47 they filled his belly with heavy stones.

7:51 When he awoke and tried to flee,

7:54 the weight pulled him down, and he fell dead on the spot.

7:59 The huntsman skinned the wolf and went on his way.

8:04 The grandmother ate her cake and drank her wine, and soon felt much better.

8:10 As for Little Red Riding Hood, she thought to herself,

8:14 "From now on, I'll never wander from the path again

8:18 when Mother tells me not to." Some say that later,

8:23 when she was again walking to her grandmother's with cakes,

8:28 another wolf tried to tempt her off the path.

8:32 But this time, Little Red Riding Hood was wiser.

8:36 She walked straight ahead and told

8:38 her grandmother about the wicked creature she'd met.

8:43 They locked the door tight, and when the wolf tried to sneak down the chimney,

8:50 he fell into a great trough of boiling sausage water,

8:54 and that was the end of him.

8:57 And from that day forward, Little Red Riding Hood never strayed from the path,

9:04 and she lived happily ever after.

9:07 So, did you enjoy the story?

9:11 Is it the version that you remember from when you were a child?

9:16 Hmm, there are many versions of Little Red Riding Hood.

9:20 The one that we're reading today is from AmericanLiterature.com.

9:24 It is based on the 1857 version by the Brothers Grimm,

9:30 and we will talk more about that a little later.

9:34 I have another question.

9:36 Did you understand all of the vocabulary in this text?

9:41 Hmm, okay, that's good.

9:45 Now, we will read the story again, and this time,

9:48 I will slow down a little and explain some of the vocabulary as we go.

9:55 So, are you ready to go back into the forest?

9:58 Here we go.

10:02 Once upon a time, there was a sweet little girl loved

10:06 by everyone who met her, but most of all by her grandmother.

10:11 The old woman adored her so much that she made her a small red velvet hood.

10:18 Now, a hood is just a cover that you place over your head.

10:23 You can see the picture here of a hood,

10:26 and when you think of velvet, this is a very soft material.

10:32 If you imagine a theater like a Shakespearean theater with live actors,

10:38 the curtain in this type of theater is often made with velvet,

10:42 and if you go to a fancy theater,

10:45 some of the seats might be made from velvet as well.

10:49 So, the small red velvet hood was made

10:53 for Little Red Riding Hood by her grandmother.

10:58 It suited her perfectly,

10:59 and from that day on, everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood.

11:05 So, simply "from that day on" just means "from that day

11:10 continuing into the future." This is a past phrase.

11:15 In the present, you can use the sentence "from now

11:19 on." The phrase "from now on," starting now and continuing into the future.

11:26 A riding hood.

11:27 We don't really use this word today.

11:30 This is an older way to say a traveler's cloak.

11:35 So, this was very English.

11:37 People who rode horses would often wear a hood,

11:41 I suppose, to protect them from the rain and the wind.

11:46 So, this is a riding hood.

11:49 So, one morning, her mother said, "Come, Little Red Riding Hood.

11:54 Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine.

11:57 Take them to your grandmother.

11:59 She's sick and weak, and this will do her good." If something does you good,

12:04 it just means it is good for you.

12:08 It has benefits for you.

12:10 For example, exercise will do you good.

12:14 It means exercise will have benefits for you.

12:18 It will be good for you.

12:21 Go before it gets too hot, and remember to walk carefully.

12:26 Don't stray from the path.

12:29 To stray just means to step off the path or to move away from a group or path,

12:35 or you might fall and break the bottle.

12:39 And when you arrive,

12:40 don't forget to say good morning before you peek around her room.

12:46 So, to peek, you can see the picture at the bottom.

12:49 It means to take a secret look, to take a brief look around.

12:53 Her grandmother, sorry, Little Red Riding Hood's mother,

12:56 is giving her good advice.

12:59 She's saying don't enter a person's house and just start looking around.

13:04 Look at the person and say, "Good morning." "I'll be careful,

13:09 mother," said Little Red Riding Hood, and she promised with a smile.

13:15 The grandmother lived deep in the forest, about half a league from the village.

13:20 So, a league is a unit of measurement.

13:23 It is 4.8 kilometers.

13:26 What is half of 4.8?

13:29 2.4, unless my math is terrible.

13:32 So, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother lived 2.4 kilometers from her house.

13:39 I have never heard this detail in any of the stories before until this version.

13:45 Just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the woods, a wolf appeared on the path.

13:51 So, woods are just a small forest.

13:54 Basically, about 25 to 60 percent of space is covered

13:58 by trees versus 60 to 100 percent of space for a forest.

14:04 So, think of a forest as having a lot more trees closer together,

14:10 covering the sky, essentially.

14:13 So, woods, the trees have more space between them.

14:18 She didn't know what a wicked creature he was,

14:22 what a wicked creature the wolf was, and felt no fear at all.

14:27 Someone who is wicked is very bad.

14:30 They can cause you harm, very close to evil.

14:34 Very wicked, bad, can cause harm.

14:38 And a creature, just another word for an animal or a human.

14:43 "Good morning, Little Red Riding Hood," said the wolf.

14:47 "Good morning, Mr.

14:49 Wolf," she replied politely.

14:51 "Where are you going so early?" he asked.

14:55 "To my grandmother's house," said the girl.

14:58 "And what's that in your basket?" "Cake and wine.

15:03 Grandma's been sick,

15:04 so Mother sent me to cheer her up." Here is a picture of a basket,

15:10 just a container for carrying things.

15:12 You can see it in the bottom right corner.

15:15 And to cheer someone up just means to make them feel better,

15:22 to improve their mood, boost their level of happiness.

15:27 "And where does your grandmother live?" asked the wolf.

15:31 "A little farther into the woods." "Farther" is

15:35 just the comparative of "far," so more far.

15:39 "A little farther into the woods." "Under the great oak

15:44 trees near the hazel bushes." "You must know it," she said.

15:49 An oak tree is just a large hardwood tree.

15:52 There are many varieties of oaks.

15:55 The thing they have in common is

15:57 that the leaves have these little ridges around them.

16:02 So this is an example of an oak tree leaf.

16:06 And a hazel bush is a leafy plant.

16:10 I looked this up.

16:11 Approximately 8 to 15 feet high that grows hazelnuts.

16:16 And these are hazelnuts.

16:18 So Grandma, in this story,

16:20 she lives near three big oak trees and a hazel bush, or some hazel bushes.

16:27 So she has hazelnuts growing around her house.

16:31 The wolf licked his lips and thought, "What a tender young thing.

16:36 She'll taste even better than the old woman.

16:39 I'll eat them both, but I'll have to be clever about it." So he licked his lips.

16:46 I'm not going to do that on camera.

16:49 So when you lick your lips, you run your tongue over your lips,

16:54 just like you can see here in this picture.

16:57 And what a tender young thing.

17:01 If meat is tender, it is easy to chew.

17:04 It is very soft, tender, soft.

17:09 I'll have to be clever about it.

17:11 So clever, skillful, very smart, mentally quick.

17:17 So he will have to think of something smart and clever to trick her.

17:24 Okay, let's continue the story.

17:27 He walked beside her for a bit, then said slyly,

17:32 "Look how pretty the flowers are here, Little Red Riding Hood.

17:36 If someone is sly, they are trying to be smooth with their words,

17:42 and they are really hiding their true intentions.

17:45 They are lying to you.

17:47 They are acting in a smooth way,

17:50 but they have bad intentions at the back of their mind.

17:56 Why not pick some flowers?

17:58 Why not pick some for your grandmother?

18:01 And listen, don't you hear how sweetly the birds are singing?

18:06 You walk along so seriously as if you were going to school when the forest is

18:12 alive with joy." Little Red Riding Hood looked

18:16 up and saw sunlight dancing through the trees, making the wildflowers sparkle.

18:23 So some lovely poetic language here.

18:26 The sunlight dancing, right, through the trees, making the wildflowers sparkle.

18:33 A sparkle, this is a verb that means to reflect light in a lovely way.

18:39 Diamonds sparkle.

18:40 When there is light on a diamond, it sparkles.

18:44 The river can sparkle as well if there is sunlight on a river.

18:49 Grandma, no, that's not the wolf.

18:52 It's Little Red Riding Hood.

18:54 Grandma would love a bouquet, she thought.

18:56 Here's a bouquet, right, a bunch of flowers.

19:00 "I still have plenty of time." So she stepped off the path to gather flowers.

19:07 Each time she picked one, she saw another even prettier farther away.

19:13 Remember, more far, farther away.

19:16 And she wandered deeper and deeper into the forest.

19:21 So she's going deeper into the forest.

19:24 Meanwhile, the wolf ran straight to the grandmother's

19:27 house and knocked at the door.

19:30 Meanwhile, at the same time, while Little Red Riding Hood was picking flowers,

19:37 the wolf was running to grandmother's house and he knocked.

19:41 You heard me knock the first time.

19:44 Right, we knock on a door.

19:46 To knock is to hit.

19:48 "Who's there?" called the grandmother.

19:52 "It's me, Little Red Riding Hood," said the wolf,

19:56 sweetly, in a sweet way, like sugar.

20:00 Maybe my voice is not like sugar, but I'm trying.

20:04 "I've brought you cake and wine." "Lift the latch," said the grandmother.

20:10 "I'm too weak to get up." So a latch

20:14 is a basic lock that helps a door stay closed.

20:19 You can see this picture of a basic latch.

20:22 It's very easy to open.

20:24 It just helps a door stay closed.

20:26 "Lift the latch." "I'm too weak to stand, to leave my bed." This is get up.

20:34 The wolf lifted the latch, pushed open the door,

20:38 and without a word, leapt upon the old woman and swallowed her whole.

20:45 "Leapt" is the past of leap.

20:48 This means to jump far or to jump high.

20:53 So you can leap over a puddle of water, for example, or maybe a stream of water.

20:59 So leap over something.

21:02 So he leapt.

21:03 He leapt.

21:04 He jumped onto the grandmother and swallowed her whole.

21:08 If you swallow something whole, you eat it in one piece.

21:14 This is a fairy tale.

21:15 So it's kind of amazing that the grandmother went inside the wolf's mouth whole.

21:22 A little strange imagery, but she needs to be whole so she can be saved later.

21:29 Then he put on her nightgown and cap.

21:33 Her nightgown, like her nightclothes, her pajamas, her cap,

21:37 pulled the curtains and lay down in her bed.

21:42 When Little Red Riding Hood finally reached the cottage,

21:46 she was surprised to find the door standing open.

21:50 The door was open.

21:52 The room felt strange and quiet.

21:55 "Oh, dear," she whispered to speak in a quiet voice like this.

22:02 "Why do I feel so uneasy today?" Uneasy is another way to say anxious,

22:09 not calm, not settled or comfortable.

22:13 She called out, "Good morning, Grandma." But there was no answer.

22:20 She went to the bed and drew back the curtains.

22:25 So you can see the kind of bed that Grandma had here,

22:29 because they mentioned drawing back the curtains.

22:32 This just means to pull back or open the curtains.

22:37 I don't really use the word "draw" or "draw back" with curtains.

22:42 You might read it, and you will read it, in old literary works, classic fiction.

22:49 If they say, "Draw the curtains," right?

22:52 So this means to close the curtains,

22:55 to draw or draw back the curtains, is to open them.

23:00 "There lay her grandmother," right?

23:02 "Lay" is the past of "lie," to just rest on a surface.

23:07 She was laying in her bed.

23:09 "There lay her grandmother, cap pulled low, face shadowed, looking quite odd,

23:17 covered in shadows." This is how her face was, odd, unusual, strange.

23:25 "Oh, Grandma, what big ears you have!"

23:29 This is the most famous exchange from this story.

23:33 Let's try it again.

23:35 Listen to me.

23:36 "Oh, Grandma, what big ears you have!" "The better

23:41 to hear you with, my child," came the growling reply.

23:45 Growl.

23:47 "But, Grandma, what big eyes you have!" "The better to see you with, my dear!"

23:55 "And what big hands you have!" "The better to hug you with!" "But, Grandma,

24:00 what a terrible big mouth you have!"

24:04 "The better to eat you with!" Roared the wolf.

24:08 And before she could scream,

24:11 he sprang from the bed and swallowed Little Red Riding Hood whole.

24:17 So he swallowed the Grandma in one bite.

24:20 He swallowed Little Red Riding Hood in one bite.

24:24 Hump.

24:26 So a roar is a loud, long sound made by an animal.

24:31 We think about lions roaring.

24:34 That is a roar.

24:36 Actually, that's an onomatopoeia,

24:38 a word that sounds like the sound it describes.

24:42 Roar, okay?

24:44 And he sprang from the bed.

24:47 So spring, it's another way to say jump.

24:51 So we have leap, leapt.

24:52 We have spring, sprang.

24:55 This is to jump or leap with speed.

24:59 And the noun, this is actually a picture of a spring.

25:03 So you can imagine, right?

25:06 When you push the spring tight and you let it go, boing, it shoots, right?

25:13 It shoots quickly.

25:15 Okay, he sprang from the bed and swallowed Little Red Riding Hood whole.

25:21 Ah, full and satisfied, full, not hungry, filled to the maximum.

25:27 The wolf climbed back into bed and soon began to snore loudly.

25:33 So I made the snoring sound.

25:38 So when you breathe in a loud, rough way while sleeping.

25:44 Just then, a passing huntsman heard the noise and muttered.

25:49 The old woman snores like a beast.

25:52 I should check on her.

25:54 We don't use the word huntsman that much today.

25:57 We just use the word hunter.

25:59 And if you mutter something,

26:01 you speak in a low voice with your lips partly closed.

26:06 So you heard me trying to mutter.

26:09 That old woman snores like a beast.

26:12 I'm muttering.

26:13 That old woman snores like a beast.

26:16 My mouth is not opening much.

26:18 I should check on her.

26:21 If you check on someone, you see how they are doing.

26:26 He stepped inside and saw the wolf stretched out in the bed.

26:31 So it's you, you wicked creature, he said, raising his gun.

26:36 But then he thought, maybe the old woman's still inside.

26:40 So instead of shooting,

26:42 he took a pair of scissors and carefully cut open the wolf's belly.

26:48 That's horrifying.

26:50 So the belly is the stomach or the underside of an animal.

26:55 He cut open the wolf's belly.

26:59 And after two careful snips, a snip is a short,

27:04 small cut, he saw a flash of red inside.

27:09 A few more cuts and out sprang,

27:12 remember, spring sprang, boing, little red riding hood.

27:17 Trembling but unharmed.

27:20 Trembling, shaking with fear or with cold.

27:26 In this case, of course, it's fear.

27:28 This is a very traumatic experience for little red riding hood.

27:33 Oh, how frightened I was.

27:36 It was so dark inside, she cried.

27:39 Then the huntsman cut a little more

27:43 and out came the grandmother, pale but alive.

27:47 So pale, you are light in color.

27:51 Your cheeks are not pink or red.

27:54 You look almost white, like a ghost.

27:57 Okay, we look pale when we are sick, for example, or maybe if we are scared.

28:03 Our face drains of its color.

28:08 To make sure the wolf could never harm anyone again,

28:12 harm is another verb for hurt, to cause someone pain.

28:17 They filled his belly with heavy stones.

28:21 Stones are smaller pieces of rock.

28:25 In geology, geologists have a problem with people

28:28 saying rocks and stones are the same thing.

28:32 Rocks are developed naturally over years, centuries,

28:37 and stones are like picked off or hit off a rock.

28:43 So a stone, a small rock, a piece of a rock.

28:46 When he awoke and tried to flee, run away, a more formal way to say run away,

28:53 flee, run away, the weight pulled him down and he fell dead on the spot.

29:00 Another way to say on the spot is then and there.

29:05 So in the place where he was exactly at that time, on the spot.

29:12 The huntsman skinned the wolf and went on his way.

29:16 Now, maybe you know the noun skin, right?

29:19 You have skin on your body.

29:21 You can use it as a verb, which means to peel the skin from an animal.

29:28 So you skin an animal.

29:30 The huntsman skinned the wolf and went on his way.

29:34 That's nice of him.

29:35 He just peeled his skin and he left.

29:39 Strange.

29:41 The grandmother ate her cake and drank her wine, cake and wine,

29:45 good for you when you're sick, and soon felt much better.

29:50 As for Little Red Riding Hood, she thought to herself,

29:54 "From now on, I'll never wander from the path

29:57 again when mother tells me not to." So to wander,

30:02 to travel away from a group, or to walk freely without purpose,

30:07 to explore and stray and wander are close, but not exactly the same.

30:15 So when you use the verb stray, you really mean you leave the path.

30:22 Wander can mean to, you know, I wandered away or I wandered off the path.

30:28 But you can also use wander to just mean explore.

30:32 So if you go on vacation, you can wander around a city, for example.

30:39 So we wandered around downtown, for example.

30:43 Okay, almost finished.

30:46 Some say that later, when she was again walking to her grandmother's with cakes,

30:53 another wolf tried to tempt her off the path.

30:57 This is the verb of temptation.

31:00 Temptation is the noun.

31:02 If you tempt someone, you try to convince them to do

31:07 something by offering something pleasant at the end.

31:10 Like, "Come on, come.

31:12 I'll give you some ice cream.

31:14 Come with me." Right?

31:16 This is tempting.

31:18 But this time, Little Red Riding Hood was wiser.

31:22 This is the comparative of the adjective wise,

31:26 which means you are intelligent and smart

31:29 as a result of your knowledge and your experience.

31:34 So hopefully, as you get older, you get wiser as a human.

31:41 She walked straight ahead and told her grandmother

31:44 about the wicked creature she had met.

31:48 Remember wicked, a really evil creature.

31:51 They locked the door tight.

31:53 And when the wolf tried to sneak down the chimney,

31:57 to sneak, to enter in a quiet or a secretive way.

32:01 You can see the image here.

32:03 And the chimney is the exit on the top of a house where the smoke can escape.

32:11 And yes, he tried to go down the chimney into their house.

32:15 He fell into a great trough of boiling sausage water.

32:21 And that was the end of him.

32:23 Okay, I'll finish this and then we'll talk about the vocab.

32:26 And from that day forward, Little Red Riding Hood never strayed from the path.

32:33 And she lived happily ever after.

32:37 A classic fairy tale ending.

32:39 She lived happily ever after.

32:42 From that point into the future, she had a happy life.

32:48 So how did this wolf die?

32:52 A trough.

32:53 Typically, today, we understand a trough as a large bowl that animals eat from.

33:00 Typically, pigs eat from a trough.

33:03 But it can be a more general word for a container.

33:07 And you can put something in it.

33:10 In this story, the grandmother had a fire,

33:13 you know, at the bottom of the chimney.

33:17 A trough on top of the fire.

33:20 And she boiled sausages, right?

33:23 She boiled sausages in the trough.

33:26 So the smell of sausages of meat escaped the house.

33:31 The wolf smelled the sausages and he wanted to eat the sausages.

33:37 So he looked down the chimney.

33:41 Fell into the trough of boiling sausage water.

33:46 Some versions of the story, the wolf drowns.

33:50 For me, I think he would just like burn alive in the...

33:54 He would have burn marks, for sure, in the water.

33:57 Must be a deep trough if he drowned it.

34:00 If he drowned in it, I mean.

34:03 Okay.

34:04 That was the second reading.

34:06 How do you feel?

34:08 Good?

34:09 Okay.

34:10 I hope you are learning some new vocabulary

34:13 here with "leap" and "spring" from that day on.

34:17 From now on.

34:18 And now, let's see how much you remember of the story.

34:25 So we have seven comprehension questions today.

34:29 Let's jump right into them.

34:31 Who made Red's hood?

34:33 We will call the girl Red for these questions.

34:37 Who made her hood?

34:40 You have two options.

34:43 Her mother or her grandmother.

34:48 Her grandmother made it.

34:51 Repeat that.

34:52 Her grandmother made it.

34:57 Good.

34:58 What material is Red's hood made of?

35:02 Remember, we talked about the theater.

35:05 The curtains in the theater.

35:07 The seats in a fancy theater.

35:10 Her hood is made of...

35:14 Velvet.

35:16 Velvet.

35:17 That's right.

35:18 So, yeah.

35:19 Made of velvet.

35:21 Next.

35:22 What is Red bringing for her grandmother?

35:26 There are two items.

35:27 Do you remember the two items that she is carrying in her basket?

35:38 Cake and wine.

35:40 As everyone knows, perfect when you are sick, I suppose.

35:46 So, she is bringing cake and wine.

35:49 Repeat after me.

35:50 She is bringing cake and wine.

35:55 Good.

35:57 Question number four.

35:59 What did the wolf want to know?

36:02 He wanted to know where Red's grandmother lived, right?

36:15 So, he wanted to know where Red's grandmother lived.

36:19 You can also say he wanted to know the location of Red's grandmother's house.

36:26 That's also possible.

36:28 So, repeat after me.

36:30 He wanted to know where Red's grandmother lived.

36:39 Excellent.

36:42 Who saved Red and her grandmother?

36:48 What is the old word that they use in the story?

36:54 A huntsman.

36:55 A huntsman saved them.

36:57 So, repeat after me.

36:59 A huntsman saved them.

37:03 Excellent.

37:05 You can also say a hunter.

37:08 Modern language, we just use the word hunter.

37:11 Question six.

37:12 What did the huntsman put in the wolf's belly?

37:17 Don't say rocks.

37:18 What are the smaller pieces of rocks?

37:26 Stones.

37:27 Repeat after me.

37:29 He filled it with stones.

37:35 Stones.

37:36 Yes.

37:37 And final question.

37:40 How did the second wolf die?

37:43 So, he landed in a "hmm" of "hmm" water.

37:50 So, what kind of water and where did he land?

37:56 It's a tough word.

37:59 Trough.

37:59 Trough.

38:01 So, he landed in a trough of when the water is very hot.

38:07 At 100 degrees Celsius, I believe.

38:12 Boiling, boiling water.

38:15 So, repeat after me.

38:17 He landed in a trough of boiling water.

38:24 And now, you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

38:29 Before we finish, I have some interesting things

38:32 that I want to tell you about this story so

38:35 that you can share this information with people you

38:39 know who might be surprised by what they hear.

38:43 Here we go.

38:44 Let's go back into the forest.

38:49 So, first, we will start with the moral of the story.

38:54 When you tell this story to children,

38:57 the main message that most people take from it is don't talk to strangers.

39:04 Strangers are people you don't know.

39:07 This is the simple lesson that most kids take from the story.

39:12 There are, of course, other lessons that you can take from it.

39:16 Such as, listen to your parents.

39:19 Stay on the path, right?

39:22 This is a physical path.

39:24 It can also be a figurative path.

39:28 Like, you know, don't make bad decisions.

39:31 Stay on the correct path.

39:34 Be careful in public.

39:35 Just pay attention to your environment.

39:39 So, Little Red Riding Hood is just walking

39:42 along and she doesn't notice that it's a wolf.

39:45 She just talks to him like he's a normal person and it's a little strange.

39:51 So, pay attention to your environment and be

39:54 aware that the world is both beautiful and dangerous.

39:58 I hope you have enjoyed the artwork in this video.

40:02 Honestly, one of my favorite parts of making

40:05 this video was looking at this classic artwork.

40:10 Check out these artists, Carl Larson, Gustave Doré.

40:14 Like, a lot of beautiful, wonderful work by these artists.

40:18 Yeah, the world is beautiful.

40:20 You can see lovely, lush greenery and then

40:23 you have a wolf following a little girl.

40:27 So, you have to be careful.

40:28 And finally, another lesson.

40:31 Eat cake and drink wine when you're sick.

40:34 Maybe?

40:35 Maybe.

40:36 I don't know.

40:37 I've never done that.

40:38 So, you tell me.

40:40 Has that worked for you?

40:41 So, before we continue with the rest of the information I give you,

40:46 I just want to say that moving forward,

40:50 we will discuss some uncomfortable themes such as sexual assault and rape.

40:57 So, if you are not comfortable hearing about those things,

41:00 you can stop the video now or just listen to it

41:04 from the beginning and just enjoy the story as is.

41:07 However, we will continue because this is

41:09 an important part of the history of this story.

41:13 So, first, how old is this story?

41:16 The truth is, there are many girl and monster stories throughout history.

41:23 In ancient Greece, over 2,500 years ago,

41:26 there was a legend about an evil spirit who dressed

41:31 in the skin of a wolf and raped a virgin girl each year.

41:36 Until one year, a boxer came and killed the spirit, then married the girl.

41:42 China, North Africa, Italy, and even Norse mythology also have stories that have

41:49 elements that are found in Little Red Riding Hood.

41:53 So, the most popular versions we know today,

41:58 however, come from Charles Perrault.

42:02 That was actually the book that I showed you at the beginning of this video.

42:06 I have the French version.

42:09 I'm trying to read it.

42:10 It's short, but it uses older language, so it's a bit of a challenge.

42:15 And this was written in 1697.

42:20 Now, this is the first version to give the detail of the Red Hood.

42:25 Before that, this was just a little girl.

42:28 Now, okay, she has something that identifies her more, a red hood.

42:35 In this story, Red carries cake and a pot of butter.

42:39 And interestingly, she takes off her clothes

42:43 before getting into the bed with the wolf.

42:47 The story ends when the wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood.

42:51 That's it.

42:52 She just dies.

42:54 She gets eaten by the wolf.

42:56 No one comes to save her.

42:58 Now, this story was written for the court of King Louis XIV.

43:04 Charles Perrault was actually part of the court,

43:06 and he wrote these stories for the entertainment of the court.

43:11 And also because he was concerned about the morality of the people,

43:16 specifically the men and the women in the court.

43:20 So, at the end of the story, we will get to this at the end of this video.

43:25 Stick around for this part.

43:27 Perrault added some social commentary at the end of his story.

43:31 It's written in this text, and I will give you the English version at the end.

43:36 Now, the most popular version that we know today,

43:41 it's actually called Little Red Cap.

43:43 It's from the German by the Brothers Grimm.

43:47 The German name, I will practice my German.

43:49 I'm not good at German.

43:53 So, they wrote many versions of Little Red Riding Hood.

43:58 The first version was in 1812, and then in 1857,

44:04 this is the most common version that we have today.

44:07 Now, this is similar and very,

44:10 very close to the version that we read today from AmericanLiterature.com.

44:16 In it, Red carries cake and wine.

44:19 Red and her grandmother are saved by a huntsman,

44:23 and Red and her grandmother outsmart a second

44:26 wolf who drowns in a trough of boiling water.

44:29 This is to give Little Red Riding Hood some revenge

44:33 and to show that she is actually smart in this.

44:37 Both of these versions,

44:39 Le Petit Chaperon Rouge and Rotkeppen, I like saying that.

44:43 If you are German, let me know how my pronunciation is.

44:47 Both of these versions,

44:50 they reflect the values and the morality and the social concerns of their times.

44:58 To finish, I really want to talk about the Perrault version in particular,

45:02 and some of the deeper adult interpretations of this story.

45:07 So, the Perrault version of Little Red Riding Hood is specifically,

45:12 and he says this, you'll see this, I'll tell you at the end,

45:17 this is specifically about the danger that predatory men pose to young women,

45:23 especially men who talk sweetly, but who are ultimately after one thing,

45:28 to take a woman to bed.

45:31 The wolf is just a symbol of a predatory man.

45:36 The color red could have multiple meanings in the story.

45:39 It is the color of passion.

45:41 It could also be read as the color

45:44 of menstruation and sexual maturity for a woman.

45:48 So, in the Perrault version,

45:50 Little Red Riding Hood actually removes her clothes before getting into bed.

45:56 Now, I don't know about you, but number one,

45:59 I have never crawled into bed with my grandma.

46:03 And number two, if I did, I don't think I would take off my clothes.

46:09 And after Little Red Riding Hood takes off her clothes,

46:13 she is swallowed whole by the wolf.

46:16 This could be interpreted as Red being a willing participant in the exchange.

46:22 Some readers have interpreted the lines about big eyes,

46:27 big ears, and big teeth as Red flirting with the wolf.

46:32 However, most adult readings interpreted this as rape,

46:37 or as an older man taking advantage of a young impressionable girl.

46:43 And to finish off, I will leave the final word to Charles Perrault himself.

46:49 He wrote this in French.

46:51 I have it in this book.

46:52 And this is the English translation by Andrew Lang in The Blue Fairy Book.

46:57 So, at the end of the story, he writes a moral.

47:01 He says, "Children, especially attractive,

47:05 well-bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers.

47:10 For if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.

47:15 I say wolf, but there are various kinds of wolves.

47:20 There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent,

47:26 and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets.

47:32 And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who

47:36 are the most dangerous ones of all." So,

47:40 again, Charles Perrault was writing for the court of Louis XIV.

47:45 He was writing about the moral concerns of his time

47:50 and the fears and worries of his time.

47:55 It's much darker than maybe you expected,

48:00 than maybe you knew when you heard this story as a child.

48:06 I learned a lot in this video during the process of making it.

48:10 And I hope you did, too.

48:12 I loved making this video.

48:14 So, if you want me to make more videos just like this one,

48:18 make sure you like this video, you comment on it,

48:21 and you share it with your friends.

48:24 Until next time, I hope you will keep practicing your English.

48:28 I hope you won't stray from the path.

48:31 And keep learning and keep practicing.

48:34 Just be safe, like Little Red Riding Hood, you know?

48:38 Make the right choices.

48:39 Bye.