Séance 2 - The Vikings are Coming
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Séance 3 - Viking raid on Lindisfarne
HBO: Vikings
Watch the video and answer the questions
The raid on the monastery is very tense. The monks are terrified of the Vikings and prefer to hide than to try to defend their town. The monks put their trust in their god to help them, and it’s ironic that their prayers are actually what give them away to the Vikings.
The Vikings appear to be a mix of trained soldiers and warriors. There is clearly a leader, but his orders not to kill unnecessarily didn’t seem to be respected.
Evaluation
Séance 4 - Vikings and the modern age
Your Project
- invaders
- barbarians
- a bloody diversion
- not a proper historical phenomenon
- Helped to unify the Kingdom
- Enticed Britain to reorient themselves with new technology
- Fostered the development of towns and trade
Se situer dans le passé
They couldn’t enter the church: the doors had been locked from the inside.
Rowan had gone to Winchester. He wasn’t here to defend her anymore.
The villagers had nothing to eat; the vikings had burnt/burned all the crops.
- Rhiannon looked at the Viking longboats on the horizon. She had heard of what they did and she was terrified.
Adjectives
The text without adjectives is boring, and it lacks detail.
Adjectives are used to add detail to nouns. The more detail a reader has, the more interested they become in the story.
- weary
- tall
- savage
- mythical
- red / white
- dark
- vicious
- terrifying (derived from the verb ‘to terrify’)
- undeniable (derived from the verb ‘to deny’)
- gunmetal (a compound of ‘gun’ and ‘metal’)
- -ed (to bore → bored)
- -ing (to excite → exciting)
- -able (to throw → throwable)
- un- (to tame → untamed)
The red-haired man was standing on the 25-meter long ship.
The dark-eyed man was wearing black, hand-made clothes.
Rowan was a hard-working servant.
Vocabulary
The Danelaw
a longboat
saga / tale / epic
a Dane
a helmet