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Competencies
C-1.1, C-1.2, C-1.3, C-1.4, C-2.1,
C-2.2, C-2.3, C-2.4, C-3.1, C-4.1

4 Rip Van Winkle • Communication Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Social Skills
• Self-awareness
21st CENTURY SKILLS
• Emotional Skills
• Creativity
• Technology Literacy
• Communication Skills
• Critical Thinking • Information Literacy
Warm Up • Collaboration
• Social Skills
Sit in groups of five.

Imagine your friend went to live in a different country for five years.
Both of you meet on his return and talk about many things and

changes that have taken place. Tell the group about it. Discuss all
that you talked about regarding the changes:

 in the place you live (city/town/village).  in your school.

 in your family.  in your friends’ circle.

Read and Enjoy S E L • Self-awareness
• Emotional Skills

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by American author Washington Irving
and it was first published in 1819. It is about a Dutch-American villager
who lived in the foothills of Catskill Mountains in New York. Now, let

us read the story.

Long ago in north America lived Rip Van Winkle,
a simple, good-natured but lazy man. He was

always willing to help his neighbours and listen

to what was troubling them. Everyone in the
village liked him. He was very popular among
the villagers, and the children were specially fond

of him. He played with
Dutch a person belonging them, taught them to
to the Netherlands
willing ready fly kites and told them
long, interesting stories.

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