PassThePaperAgain: CLIL (tasks 14

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

http://themedievalnun.hubpages.com/hub/feudalism-2.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuwaXWcX1L8