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THE CANTERBURY TALES
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All kinds of people rode on the pilgrimage. There was rich

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to make money and rode a fat horse. But next to him, the Oxford Cleric1 rode
a thin horse. He preferred to have books by great philosophers next to his bed,
not bags of money. A Franklin2 with a white beard rode with them, a man who
loved good food and wine.
After them, there was a Cook who knew how to cook delicious meals with herbs
and spices.3 Then there was a brown-faced Sea-Captain who looked like a pirate.
He had fought battles at sea and made his prisoners walk the plank.4 Then there
was a Doctor who knew everything about the body. His patients paid him with
gold. The plague had made him very rich indeed!
Look at the next pilgrim! She was a large red-faced woman from the city of
Bath. She wore a huge hat and a long coat over her wide hips.5 Her tights6 were
red and her shoes were new. Her face was as red as her clothes. How many
husbands do you think she had been married to? Five! She had lived longer
than them all. That is how she became rich enough to go on pilgrimages, to
Jerusalem, to Spain, to France, to Rome.
(from Part 1, The Prologue)

1 cleric : religious scholar.

2 Franklin : land-owner
3 herbs and spices : natural substances to add flavour to food.
4 plank : a long piece of wood. Pirates made their enemies walk off the ship and fall into the sea.
5 hips : the widest part of the body.
6 tights : covering for the legs.

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3. The Sea Captain had a brown face

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4. The plague had brought the Doctor

a lot of patients and gold. T F
5. The Wife of Bath had a red face,
but her tights and clothes were black. T F
6. The Wife of Bath had married five
different men and they all died. T F
7. This was the first pilgrimage for the
Wife of Bath. T F

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THEME : It’s a Small World for Travellers

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mountain, the river… or the ocean. Travelling is perhaps

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see and touch things and places that we have only dreamed or read about.
And, most important, it enables us to meet other people—people who are
different from us.
There are many reasons why people travel. In The Canterbury Tales the reason
is a religious pilgrimage to the shrine of a saint. When young people think of
travelling it’s usually to a holiday or vacation spot. Others travel to visit splendid
cities with their works of art. Some nature lovers travel long distances to
experience the magic of a national park, where Nature is queen.
Travelling was not always a choice — for the explorers of long ago, it was a job
— a profession. Those men were usually sent by their governments to discover
and explore new lands. Today many individuals travel because business and
commerce are often done face to face, not only via computer!
And still others travel because they are emigrants who leave their native land to
seek a better life elsewhere. Among these people are refugees from war zones.

Work in small groups and answer these questions. Then compare

your work with the class.
1. Do you like travelling and why?
2. What are your favorite places to travel to and why?
3. Travelling by air, by land or by sea create a big carbon footprint!
Most means of transport use fossil fuel. Which means of transport
do you use?
4. Which means of transport will be the least polluting in the future?

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