B1 · Intermediate
Fairy Tales & Classic Authors
Talk about Hans Christian Andersen, his best-known fairy tales and other classic Danish authors such as Søren Kierkegaard and Karen Blixen.
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- 30
- Lessons
- 1
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
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- Hans Christian Andersen, fairy-tale author
- a fairy tale
- a fairy-tale writer
- Odense (Denmark's third-largest city, on Funen)
- a shoemaker, a cobbler
- a washerwoman
- world-famous
- to publish
- to translate
- a folk tale
- The Ugly Duckling
- a duckling
- The Little Mermaid (statue)
- The Princess and the Pea
- the emperor's new clothes
- The Snow Queen
- a tin soldier
- narrator
- a main character
- a message
- to portray, to depict
- the Hans Christian Andersen museum in Odense
- the Danish Golden Age
- Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher
- Karen Blixen, author of 'Out of Africa'
- a pen name, a pseudonym
- the Nobel Prize
- a classic
- to read aloud
- an autobiography
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Andersen and Danish Classics
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