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Absolute Beginner English for Every Day S1 #41 - Top 6 Fairy Tales

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🗓️ 26 March 2026

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learn about the top 6 fairy tales that are well-known in the USA

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Hi everybody, welcome back to Top Words. My name is Alicia, and today we're going to be talking about the top six American fairy tale.

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So let's go.

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Sleeping Beauty. The first fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty is a very popular story.

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Essentially, the story is that there is this beautiful girl who is asleep for a very long time and she can only

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be awakened by a kiss from a prince or by her true love or something. I'm not sure about

0:28.3

the qualifications for the person who kisses her to wake her up, but that's what it is.

0:32.6

In a sentence, I didn't watch the movie Sleeping Beauty very much when I was a kid. That

0:36.9

is true.

0:39.4

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Snow White is the story of another princess, and she lives in the woods with seven dwarfs.

0:47.5

Dwarfs are small people.

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I don't know, depending on the story, they have powers sometimes or like different, I don't know, attributes.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first ever full-color Disney movie. It's true. Look it up.

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Jack and the Beanstalk.

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The next fairy tale is Jack and the Beanstalk.

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Jack and the Beanstalk is a classic story.

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Jack is a young boy who lives in a village and he sells his family's cow for three magic beans. The magic

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beans he plants and then a huge bean stock grows. So a giant plant grows and he climbs the plant

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up to the cloud region. He climbs the plant up and he finds this land where giants live and then he steals from the giants and tries to take it back down to his home.

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In a sentence, Jack and the Beanstalk was adapted into a movie called Into the Woods a few years ago.

1:43.3

Also true.

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Cinderella. The next story is Cinderella. Cinderella is another classic story from

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