HOUSING CONDITIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

DBH 2 Students are working on the project titled "History of everyday life". It involves analysing people's lives in three different historical periods: the Middle Ages, the Victorian period and nowadays. At the moment we are looking at their living conditions. What sort of houses did they live in? To answer this question students have read a couple of texts, but in this blog we want to help them with some visual material.

We have found a lot of pictures of medieval houses by surfing the net. Here's a selection of these pictures.

To start with, look at this peasant home with the straw roof and the small windows without glass. Many other medieval huts haven't survived because they were made of timber.
Notice the fireplace in the middle of the multi-uses room.
Notice the difference between the houses above and the following manor houses, with their lattice windows and tiled roofs:

By the way, many of you wondered what a lattice window was. Here's a picture of a lattice window. We hope it will help.



Here are some exercises for you to practice the vocabulary studied:

• Medieval houses 1
• Medieval houses 2
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switch 4: FOR, SINCE, AGO

Here are some exercises for you to practise the grammar in unit 4.

COMPLETE WITH FOR, SINCE OR AGO

1. http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=9010
2. http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/for-since-ago_quiz1.htm
3. http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-49804.php
4. http://www.ejerciciodeingles.com/ejercicios-present-perfect-for-since-ago-rellenar-huecos/
5. http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf1.htm
6. http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/presentperfectorpastsimple/exercise3.swf
7. http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/intermediate/since%20for%20last%20ago.htm
8. http://www.impact-english.com/members/Grammar_Practice/Always/test-grammar/gr_prac_S-F-gen.htm 

OTHER TYPES:

1. Correct or incorrect: http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/presentperfect/exercise7.swf
2. Present perfect and For / since: http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ulrich.koch/flg/englischinteraktiv/since-for-01.htm
3. Rewriting: http://sir.free.fr/forsince.htm
4. http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/uploads/ressources/grammar/14_time%20expressions/14gtanya_since_ago/tanya_since_ago.htm
5. FOR, SINCE, AGO AND JUST: http://www.vitutor.com/gramatica_inglesa/verb_tense/present_perfect_ej8.html
6. MATCHING: http://langues.u-bordeaux4.fr/ANGLAIS/EXOGRAM/forsinceago2.htm
7. Rewriting: http://nacho.montorio.info/2HSpresentperfectrewriting.htm

"MUSIC MAGAZINE" IN DBH4

NME, a well-known music magazine

Students from DBH4 are going to release a MUSIC MAGAZINE. The magazine is going to be appealing for teenagers, colourful, full of interesting content and we all will learn a lot about music while we work on it.
It's going to be varied concerning topics: interviews to famous musicians, questionnaires, contests, letters to the editor, information about concerts and so on.
We will do it in groups of 4, and we will be working and getting information as if we were real journalists. In addition, we will give it a nice design thanks to ICTs (Information and communication technologies), using computer applications and programmes such as publisher.
MUSIC MAGAZINE