V5 week 39 beowulf

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

You can have a look at the words for 5 minutes

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

SO 1

Don't forget to write your name!

Get out your laptop

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Goal: I understand the basic plot of Beowulf

homework check

Do the fill in the gap exercises on the worksheet from the listening lesson.

Green Great wall

Crittercam

How was Great Britain during the early middle ages different from the Great Britain we know now?

What is the migration of the people?

Beowulf

Oldest surviving poem

Beowulf

Beowulf is set in a period when Christianity had yet to become established all across Western Europe. 

Nevertheless, there are many references to God in the poem.

Can you suggest why this might be?

At the start of the first quoted passage. Grendel is introduced as a bloodthirsty monster. 

Give a number of examples from which his nature is apparent.