Task 14.
A set of materials has been created that is thought for ESO students of History of Middle Ages. It contains 4 sessions with many different activities, as well as their lead-ins and follow-ups.
It can be found under the following direction of issuu:
http://issuu.com/agnesroca/docs/task_14_-_issuu.docx
Task 15.
A webquest has been created in order to follow with the Didactic Unit of the Middle Ages.
It can be seen here:
THE MEDIEVAL TOWNS,
CASTLES AND STRONGHOLDS
Activity 1. The
Medieval towns.
- Please match the names with the pictures.
Use dictionary if necessary. Remember that on the Internet you may find
many decent dictionaries (much better than Google Translator!).
In the course of time many medieval towns were destroyed, burnt or
renovated. Nowadays there are only a few buildings left of that time. However,
quite often street names remind of medieval crafts.
Please look for an example of a medieval street name on the next picture
(a postcard from York) and translate it into Spanish:
Activity 2. The Medieval castle and stronghold.
Find the missing
words.
Use an on-line dictionary in order to translate words that describe a castle from the pictures below. Match them with the following functions:
·
living
·
defence
·
supply
·
punishment
·
others
Find out if in your town or area exists any medieval castle or
stronghold. Find and share information about its history and
characteristics.
Activity 3
Watch the short film "York in one day" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SeoS8Ux-7g and write a short description of the most interesting things you can visit in this town.
Activity 4.
Read a text below (a piece of an article "Feudalism
explained" from
Find and translate into Spanish key-words, and then draw with
them a "mental map" of the text.
The Middle Class and the City
One thing you might notice
missing from the social pyramid are middle-class/city people. They do not fit into
the pyramid because they do not hold land. They achieved their incomes not
through farming land, but rather by trade or craftsmanship. Cities-where most
of these people were located-were a separate beast entirely. Some cities fell
under the jurisdiction of a nobleman; some belonged directly to the king; still
others purchased their administrative freedom with huge sums of money. Free
cities were rather like landless knights in that they weren't required to give
any sort of military aid, and they paid no taxes, except when a special
head-tax was levied.
Cities that were under the
control of the king or a nobleman, however, paid taxes on various activities.
They might have to collect a tax for every visitor that came into the city.
They might have to pay a tax to erect a new building or pave a street. They
might have to pay a percentage of all sales conducted in the city. And they
would be required to supply a predetermined number of able-bodied men to serve
in the lord's army. Cities were typically governed by an elected council of
elders or burgers. These men would see to the collection of taxes from the
city's inhabitants and would recruit for military service (and draft men into
it if not enough volunteers could be found). They invariably taxed the people
more than the lord required, and this surplus was used to maintain the city-to
help build or strengthen or expand the city walls, to pay for gate or prison
guards and a sheriff, to pave streets and to pay someone to clean them, to
build water fountains so the citizens could have a source of water, to build
and maintain the public toilets, etc. When warfare was taking place close to
the city, any men and older boys who were not turned over to the lord for
service would be drafted to help defend the town.
It was, of course, better to
live in a free city because all of your tax dollars went to the maintenance of
the city where you lived; if your city had a lord, you paid more taxes, and
some of them disappeared into a nobleman's pocket.
Task 16. ESL quiz
Lead-in
Students
are to watch a short video regarding peasant's life during that times: Life in Middle Ages. (2:36 minutes). They
can watch it twice.
Students are to answer the questions included in a quiz published on the
following web-page: http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz.php?id=23215.
Lead-in
Activity.
The
students should do the test and send their answers to the teacher.
