PROCESS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

FIRST SESSION

Warm up: I will try to motivate the students writing on board some English words that are Norman French loans and Calques (very similar to French actual language)

-Teacher asks them to discover from where this word come.

Ex:: . Assassin, assault.

. Beef, mutton, veal, venison, pork, bacon, sausage,

. Captain, lieutenant, sergeant

. Dress, habit, gown, robe, garment, cloak, petticoat, lace

. blue, brown, vermilion, scarlet, russet, , tawny.

. brooch, turquoise, amethyst, garnet, ruby, emerald.

. biscuit, cream, sugar, olives, lettuce, almonds.

. spice, clave, thyme, mustard, vinegar, roast, boil, stew.

. cathedral, mansion, chamber, ceiling, cellar, chimney.

-Once known that these words are Norman French loans, students must divide them into fields. The words that they don’t know must be looked out into dictionary.

SECOND SESSION

-Teacher gives to Students a brief text about historical development on the English language after the Romanization till 1500. This text will contain the most important historical events for English language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England.

Students must pick out the main sociolinguistical events from the text. Teacher helps them.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/1066-and-the-norman-conquest/ Curiosities

Once read it, Students will do a true and false exercise sharing exercises with their partners.

Students must answer some questions about the text to ensure ourselves they have understood the text.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsjnb9q/revision/1 Exercises KS3

THIRD SESSION

Teacher gives each student grammar boxes in which the uses of past tenses are explained:

https://oxfordenglishgrammar.com/past-tenses-in-english/

Students must underline in the previous text all these kinds of sentences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest_of_England.
Exercises with regular and irregular past:

Irregular Verbs - Fill in the correct form -

. Students, from a set of English past verbs, must classify them into regular and irregular ones.

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Note on DIDACTIC UNIT: Introduction to Norman Conquest, created by rodolfo margarida on 22/03/2020.