Life in the Middle Ages

Castle of Angers (France)

The Canterbury Tales

INTRODUCTIONHISTORY FEUDAL SOCIETY MEDIEVAL CASTLES THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH VILLAGE LIFE CITY LIFE

LITERATURE THE CANTERBURY TALES - GEOFFREY CHAUCER - THOMAS BECKET - “THE WIFE OF BATH’S TALE” - THE CITY OF CANTERBURY Final task: Summer Trip to Canterbury Language School

Subtask 1.Read and write the different parts of the castleSubtask 2: Inside the keep1.Type of text: DescriptiveOutcomes: Students read the text with the aid of the dictionary. Normans (invaders),bailey, cross over, moat, drawbridge, wind up/down, gatehouse, gateway, portcullis, strong pointed iron fence, outer bailey, inner bailey,.

2. Type of text: DescriptiveOutcomes:Students complete sentences related to the keep: In the battlements….. The lord and his important visitors slept…..Other people slept……..They had their meals in……..

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHSubtask 3. They read and label the parts of a monastery on a drawing Subtask 4. Labelling the part of an Abbey’s ground

plan by understanding a text :The Abbey Church, The Refectory, The Dormitory, The Cloisters, The Chapter House, The Parlour, The Calefactorium, The eInfirmary, The Abbot’s house.

Manors and cottagesSubtask 5.Reading about Norman houses. Students answer the question : What was a monor house like? Subtask 6.Students imagine they are in the centre of York. They read some information about THE KINGS MANOR and answer some questions

Subtask 7: Describing in their own words a poor man’s cottage after reading a text. Labelling parts of a village on a drawing: manor house, Wall, Church, cross, cottages, Priest’s house

VILLAGE LIFESubtask 8: Complete sentences with vocabulary from the text: “manors, villagers, protect, freemen….”

TOWN LIFECharters and gilds. Subtask 9: Students complete the sentences with words from the text

Shopkeepers’ signs. Subtask 10: Students make up possible signs (goldsmiths, silversmith’s, vinter’s, leatherworkers)

“This world nis but a thoroughfare full of woe,And we been pilgrims passing to and fro”

“We are, all of us, pilgrims on the journey through life”

The canterbury talesUnique for several reasons:

Variety of story tellersThe vividness with which the tellers are

described Pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn in southwark, a

suburb in London, to the famous shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury cathedral and

back again.The medieval idea of the social structure in

three segments- knighthood, clergy and plowmen is represented by the noble portraits of knight and squire, parson and clerk, yeoman

and plowman.

THE PILGRIMS AND THOMAS BECKET

Pilgrims Passing to and From

The murder of Thomas Becket

FINAL TASK

Students choose the Language school they want to go to .

Chaucer’s descriptionsWhat pilgrims looked like

English proverbs

CANTERBURY

Students go on a trip to a Language School in Canterbury.

They ask for directions when they get to Canterbury.They dramatize “The Wife of Bath’s tale” at school.

:COMPETENCES DEVELOPED Communicative, learning to learn, co-operative work, autonomus learning.

IN CANTERBURY

Asking for directionsActing out “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”

ASSESSMENTMust be able to /will be able to / could:

- Know aboout life in the Middle Ages -Medieval Literature in England -Write an application form to enrol in a Language School - Ask for directions - Act out a dialogue

BASIC COMPETENCES DEVELOPED IN THE UNIT.

- Communicative competence - Cooperative learning - Learning to learn - Autonomy and personal iniciative - Social and civic competence

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