The Canterbury Tales - The Wife of Bath's Tale

May-December relationships are mainly a celebrity thing.
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This lesson contains 26 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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May-December relationships are mainly a celebrity thing.
YES
NO
DON'T KNOW

Slide 1 - Poll

If one of my peers fancied or started seeing a much older man or woman I would try to talk him or her out of this.
OF COURSE!
NO... LIVE AND LET LIVE
I DON'T KNOW

Slide 2 - Poll

A young lover’s passion and stamina keeps an older partner young.
OF COURSE!
NO... WHY SHOULD THEY?
NO IDEA

Slide 3 - Poll

THE CANTERBURY TALES...
  • "leaving town" --> which one?
  •  a "Middle English poem" = ?
  • to pass the time away, they ...?
  • pilgrims of every social class...
  • "the writing is vernacular" = ?

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Slide 5 - Video

THE CANTERBURY TALES...
  • "leaving town" --> which one?
  •  a "Middle English poem" = ?
  • to pass the time away, they ...?
  • pilgrims of every social class...
  • "the writing is vernacular" = ?

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PROGRESSIVE READING: 1

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What would your answer to the question of the queen be?

Slide 13 - Open question

PROGRESSIVE READING: 2

Slide 14 - Slide

What do women want?

Slide 15 - Mind map

PROGRESSIVE READING: 3

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What is the old woman (loathly lady) going to ask in return?

Slide 17 - Open question

PROGRESSIVE READING: 4

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What is the correct answer to the question the knight had to answer?

Slide 19 - Open question

PROGRESSIVE READING: 5
  • What does the knight have to do in return?
  • The knight being a KNIGHT, he has to follow the rules of good chivalry. How should he behave?

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PROGRESSIVE READING: 5

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PROGRESSIVE READING: 5
  • DOES the knight behave like a good knight, according to the old lady? How (not)?
  • In the next section, the knight will get the choice between two options, a real dilemma:
    - what is that dilemma?
    - what is the right decision?
    - does the knight make the right decision?

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PROGRESSIVE READING: 6

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PROGRESSIVE READING: 6
  • What is the right decision?
  • How could you have known this already from the start?
  • Would you call the Wife of Bath a feminist? 

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A HAPPY END?

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How did you like the story?
😒🙁😐🙂😃

Slide 26 - Poll