Canterbury Tales - introduction

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The Canterbury Tales

Introduction lesson

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What did you think when you heard this kind of music?

A story from...?

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote

The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

From what time are these lines?

1. 800
2. 1000
3. 1400
4. 1900

Try to look for

- Words you know (circle those)

- Words you recognise but don't know the meaning of ( underline those)

Middle Ages 

(medieval)

- 400 to 1500

- People divided in social groups (3 groups)

- Most important: King (or later Queen)

The Canterbury Tales

Buzz question (you can look this up on your phone):

1. Where is Canterbury?

2. How far is it from your home?

3. How far is it from London to Canterbury?

Canterbury

- Now 19 hours, in medieval times it would take days to travel there

- By horse, by mule, by carriage

- The people in The Canterbury Tales tell stories on their way to Canterbury

The Canterbury Tales

- Written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343(?) - 1400)

- About pilgrims that travel from London to Canterbury

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The Canterbury Tales

- Not finished (124 stories was Chaucer's goal)

- Chaucer dies

- Chaucer actually completed only twenty-two, although two more exist in fragments

Pilgrimage (pelgrimstocht)

- Pilgrimages are still happening nowadays

- Also from London to Canterbury

- "Pilgrimage is time set apart from normal daily life in which people travel to a holy place."

What did we learn today?

- The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer.

- It contains stories, told by people from medieval society.

- It is not finished.

- What pilgrimages are.

Homework

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- Write a short assignment of 150 words about the following topics, explaining what they are in your own words:

- Pilgrimage

- Feudalism

- Knights

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