V5 week 49

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Get out your laptops

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

The Goal of this lesson:

*to practise having a discussion

Stepping Stones 

p. 47

HAVE YOUR SAY! 

WORK

 IN GROUPS OF

 THREE!

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Mondeling

• een kant kiezen bij een stelling en dit toelichten/eigen standpunt verdedigen
• Leg aan een alien uit wat dit voorwerp is 
• solliciteren naar een baan 

beoordeling op:

• pronunciation
• grammar
• fluency
•  idioms
• preparation

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

What is the migration of the people?

“And if death does take me, send the hammered / Mail of my armor to Higlac, return / The inheritance I had from Hrethel, and he / From Wayland. Fate will unwind as it must!”

- 'Beowulf'.

BEOWULF 

Beowulf

Oldest surviving poem

MagisterMe >

Alquin Middle Ages >

BEOWULF  (page 7 /8/9)

What do you remember
about 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.

Why do you suppose Heaney translated Beowulf in verse form?

What, in your opinion, are the pros and cons of such an approach?

Why do you suppose Swanton translated Beowulf in prose form?

What, in your opinion, are the pros and cons of such an approach?

Compare two translations. Which do you prefer and WHY?

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What are the common aspects of the romances?

Romances

- knight's chivalry

- aid by hero's close friend

- treacherous enemy

- rewarded with romantic love of compliant/passive woman

King Arthur

How can the romance aspects be seen in sir Gawain's story?

Can you already make out some differences based on the trailer?

Get out your Stepping Stones

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Apart from the journalists, who else contribute to the content of a newspaper?

NEWS-WRITING BOTS

- scanning

- in-depth reading (+ pronunciation)

- vocab

(page 39 or paragraph G)