G3/V3 Canterbury Tales Theme 5

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The Canterbury Tales

Theme 5 - Story time - page 73

Improve your reading skills

You know how to use the Indirect speech

You know how to use 'one' and 'ones'  

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Scan the text "Canterbury Tales"
on page 73 of your textbook.
What happened in the 1380s and 1390s?

Who was Boccaccio?

1. a renowned Italian poet
2. Chaucer's employer and friend
3. the translator of the Canterbury Tales

Who was William Caxton?

1. a renowned Italian poet
2. Chaucer's employer and friend
3. the publisher of the Canterbury Tales

What is "estates satire"?

1. a medieval Italian story about pilgrims and monks
2. a stereotypical portrayal of characters, based on social class
3. the depiction of fairy-tale people in exotic places

tale  = verhaal 

pilgrim = pelgrim, 

bedevaartganger

engage in  = zich bezighouden met

interaction = interactie

character = personage

Book of the Week 

The Canterbury Tales tells the story of a group of pilgrims who engage in a tale-telling contest. We get to read the interactions between the characters, and the tales they tell each other. There are serious tales, but also very funny ones. We highly recommend this work to anyone with a taste for classic literature.

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 1380s and early 1390s, after his retirement as a civil servant. In his professional life, Chaucer was able to travel from his home in England to France and Italy. There, he had the chance to read Italian and French literature. Some experts claim that he met the famous Italian poet Boccaccio during this period.

Chaucer’s decision to write in English, his mother tongue, rather than in the Latin of so many of his educated colleagues, was something of a risk, and a big break with learned tradition. The risk paid off, as his work became enormously popular. More manuscripts of the tales have survived than of almost any other work of this time period. The Canterbury Tales was still going strong when the fi rst printers made their way to England. William Caxton published the fi rst printed version of the tales in 1476.

retirement = pensioen

literature = literatuur

mother tongue = moedertaal

educated = geleerd

break = breuk

learned = geleerd

enormously = enorm

manuscript = manuscript

to survive =  overleven

One of the things that makes The Canterbury Tales fun to read is the great (and often absurd) detail in which the narrator describes each of the pilgrims. We learn, for example, that the cook has a pustule on
his leg that very much resembles one of the desserts he cooks. For many of his portraits, Chaucer relied on a medieval tradition of ‘estates satire’, a collection of stereotypes about people based on what occupation they had or what social class they belonged to.

Since The Canterbury Tales is a story about a storytelling competition, many of the questions it asks are about stories: What makes for a good story? Why do we tell stories? Why should we tell stories? And as the pilgrims tell their stories, they turn out not to be talking about fairy-tale people in far-off lands – they recount the experiences of fl esh-and-blood people.

pustule =  puist

portrait = portret

to rely on = vertrouwen op

collection = verzameling

based on = gebaseerd op

far-off = ver weg

recount = vertellen

The Canterbury Tales is highly recommended to anyone...

1. ... who likes funny stories.
2. ... with a taste for classic literature.

..... , Geoffrey Chaucer was able to travel to other countries.

1. As a child, ...
2. In his professional life, ...

The Canterbury Tales became popular...

1. because they were written in English.
2. after they had been translated to English.

Relatively ..... manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales have survived.

1. many
2. few

The printing press was introduced in England in the ...

1. 16th century
2. 15th century

The narrator in The Canterbury Tales ..... many words to describe the characters.

1. uses
2. doesn't use

VOCAB CHECK

words from Theme 5 - A, B, C, D

Drag the white boxes to the red boxes.

engage in

be engrossed in

recurring

gripping

sequel

intrigued

imaginative

suspense

rely on

wordy

vertrouwen op

verdiept zijn in

fantasierijk

pakkend

langdradig

spanning

nieuws- gierig

terug- kerend

vervolg

zich bezig houden met

Indirect speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

Directe rede = Als iemand iets zelf  zegt

Indirecte rede = Wanneer je wilt vertellen wat iemand anders heeft gezegd. 

Direct speech = John: "I am going home".

Indirect speech = John said (that) he was going home.

Wat is er veranderd aan de zin om er indirecte rede van te maken?

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech

(page 75 + 165)

Je gaat als het ware 1 stap terug op de tijdlijn:

present simple >> past simple

present continuous >> past continuous

present perfect >> past perfect

past simple >> past perfect

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

present simple >> past simple

Kate: "I won't come."

She said that she wouldn't come.

present continuous >> past continuous

John: "I am going home".

John said (that) he was going home.

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

present perfect >> past perfect

Jayden: "I have lived here for 10 years."

Jayden said that he had lived here for 10 years.

past simple >> past perfect

Grandma: 'I forgot my books at your house.'

Grandma said that she had forgotten her books at our house.

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

Zet de volgende zinnen in de indirecte rede:

Samantha: "I have a nice car".

Mr. Jones: "I am doing the dishes".

Jayden: "I have lived here for 10 years."

Jim: "Our neighbours moved last year."

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

Samantha: "I have a nice car". 

Samantha said that she had a nice car.

Mr. Jones: "I am doing the dishes". 

Mr. Jones said that he was doing the dishes.

Jayden: "I have lived here for 10 years." 

Jayden said that he had lived here for 10 years.

Jim: "The neighbours moved last year." 

Jim said that the neighbours had moved last year.

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: Indirect speech 

(page 75 + 165)

LET OP: vaak moet je het persoonlijk voornaamwoord, bezittelijk voornaamwoord en/of tijdsaanduiding aanpassen:

Samantha: "I have a nice car". Samantha said that she had a nice car.

Mr. Jones: "I am doing the dishes". Mr. Jones said that he was doing the dishes.

Jayden: "I will do it right now." Jayden said that he would do it straight away.

Jim: "Our neighbours moved last year." Jim said that their neighbours had moved last year.

Firemen: 'We have extinguished the fire in your kitchen.'

Brandon: 'I don't want to hurt your feelings.'

Our guests: 'Your restaurant is the best in town!'

My teacher: 'Can you hand in your stories tomorrow?'

The author: 'I spent almost five years writing this story.'

The reporter: 'A disaster has taken place in Japan.'

I: 'Could you show me the story you've been working on?'

VOCAB CHECK

words from Theme 5 - A, B, C, D

Drag the white boxes to the red boxes.

behaviour

acquit

dignified

blurb

excerpt

narrator

yarn

tale

judging from

have a taste for

gedrag

langdradig verhaal

waardig

flaptekst

afgaande op

vrijspreken

verhaal

houden van

fragment

verteller

One/ones

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: one/ones

(page 75 + 169/170)

Je gebruikt one (enkelvoud) of ones (meervoud) wanneer je een zelfstandig naamwoord verderop in de zin wilt herhalen. 

The old red pencil was nicer that the new one.

Do you prefer the blue jeans or the grey ones?

Grammar explanation: Indirect Speech

Grammar explanation: one/ones

(page 75 + 169/170)

Je gebruikt one (enkelvoud) of ones (meervoud) om een zelfstandig naamwoord te vervangen:

na een bijvoeglijk naamwoord

There are small pets and larger ones.

na 'which'

I can choose a new bike. Which one should I pick?

na 'this, that, these, those'

Do you like mysteries? This one is a must-read.

als zelfstandig naamwoord

Shirts? I like the ones with flowers best.

Which films do you like best? I like the one/ones that are realistic.

1. one
2. ones

You've got expensive books and cheap one/ones.

1. one
2. ones

Do you have a favourite band? I really like this one/ones.

1. one
2. ones

Cartoons? I really like the one/ones made by Disney.

1. one
2. ones

Which magazine can you recommend? I would choose that one/ones.

1. one
2. ones

Paperback or hardcover? Which one/ones do you choose?

1. one
2. ones

Homework

DO: exercises 8-10, 12, 15-18 (online)

DO: Watch LessonUp The Canterbury Tales video and answer the questions

STUDY: G, H, I and the proverbs & Sayings (page 82-83)

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