The Black Death and the End of the Medieval World

All levels48 minHistoryLesson 6 of 6 · Outline

Aims

Fewer workers, higher wages, a shaken church and a new appetite for enquiry: how a catastrophe rearranged Europe. Nuanced discussion for C1 students.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. News10 min

    In the news: The story

    Read a 199-word news story: The survivors inherited a world with too much land and too few hands

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words to know

    7 items

  2. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: The empty field

    2 discussion questions

  3. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Scarcity and power

    3 discussion questions

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: After the certainty

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

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