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Listening and Language Skills

A. Look at the pictures and discuss the questions.

1. What famous event from the Middle Ages is
being illustrated?
2. Where and when did it originate?

3. What happened as a result?

B. Use a dictionary to find the definitions of the
words below, and then write a sentence for
each showing its meaning.

boil .
plague .

epidemic .
dock .

pus .
sins .

divine punishment .
flagellant .

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C. Listen to a lecture about the Black Death and complete the sentences.
1. The scientific name for the Black Death is .
2. The disease arrived in Europe in the year .
3. It reached Europe when twelve arrived in Sicily.
4. The disease killed Europeans in five years.
5. Many were killed as people attempted to please God.

6. Flagellants would whip themselves in public for days.
7. The Black Death was caused by a .
8. It could spread through and bites.

D. Listen again, then discuss the following E. Discuss the questions in pairs or as a class.
questions in pairs.
1. How do you think the Black Death affected
1. Where did the disease originate, and how did people, life, culture and the economy at the
it spread? time?
2. Why was the Black Death particularly 2. How do modern pandemics impact our world
frightening for people at the time? today?
3. What was the link between the Black Death 3. How are people’s responses to disease
and religion? outbreaks today different from those in the
4. What would you have done, if the plague was past?
spreading towards your home town?

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