Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about different kinds of pilgrimage and the reasons to take them; we will also learn about how Chaucer's Prologue inspired The Refugee Tales.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What is the correct definition of 'migrant'?
Someone waiting to be recognised as a refugee.
Someone who is fleeing persecution or war.
Correct answer: Someone who travels from one place to another.
Q2.
What is the correct definition of 'refugee'?
Someone waiting to be recognised as a refugee.
Correct answer: Someone who is unable to return home due to persecution or war.
Someone who travels from one place to another.
Q3.
What is the correct definition of 'asylum seeker'?
Correct answer: Someone waiting to be recognised as a refugee.
Someone who is unable to return home due to persecution or war.
Someone who travels from one place to another.
Q4.
What text is 'The Refugee Tales' inspired by?
Beowulf
The Bible
Correct answer: The Canterbury Tales
The Odyssey
Q5.
Which of these facts about detention centres is incorrect?
Detention centres are similar to prisons.
Correct answer: There are 5 detention centres in the UK.
There is no limit on how long a migrant can be detained in a detention centre.

5 Questions

Q1.
What is the correct definition of 'pilgrimage?
Correct answer: A journey taken to a sacred place for religious or personal reasons.
A long holiday to a far away exotic location.
A mission or challenge designed to be difficult.
Q2.
What is the correct definition of 'intertextual'?
Text messages sent from mobile phones to another phone.
When a book or text remains unfinished.
Correct answer: When a text uses ideas or language from another text.
Q3.
What season does The Canterbury Tales happen in and why?
In Autumn, when the leaves look nice.
Correct answer: In Spring, when the weather is warm enough to travel.
In Winter, because it's good to travel in cold weather.
Q4.
Why might a pilgrimage be important for a refugee?
It's a chance to practice religion.
It's a photo opportunity.
Correct answer: Pilgrimage sites often offer sanctuary, i.e. a safe place to rest.
Q5.
Which of these is NOT a pilgrimage site?
Canterbury
Mecca
Santiago de Compostela
Correct answer: Wolverhampton.

Lesson appears in

UnitEnglish / The Refugee Tales: 'Prologue', ed. Anna Pincus and David Herd

English