A folk tale(民间故事）is a very old story that has been __1__ down from one family to another, from one generation(代）to another.These old stories are often called fairy stories because so many of then are about fairies(仙女）.Every country has its own folk tales and its own __2__ of telling fairy stories.
there __3__ two brothers named Grimm.They were called Jakob and Wilhelm who lived in Germany in the first half of the 19th century.They were born is Hanau.They __4__folk tales.We know these stories __5__ "Grimm's Fairy tales." Stories such as "Snow white" and "Sleeping Beauty" have been __6__ countless times.
Many of the tales told about the countries near Germany where they lived.Some of them were partly __7__.
The Grimm brothers did not __8__ write the stories for boys and girls. They planned them for __9__ people living in Germany. But when the children heard the stories, they wanted to hear them again and again.
Jacob __10__ unmarried. Wilhelm died in berlin on December 16,1859 and Jacob four years later on September 20,1863.
