Group 13: This group made a good performance of the presentation, talking fluently and vocalizing almost every single word. They read the original text with an accurate pronunciation and focusing in their work without giving importance to biographies, etc… The content was quite well done, involving etymology, lexis, spelling, etc… We particularly liked how they distributed their turns.
Group 12: We think that this group made a very good presentation; there are not many things to say about it. Their pronunciation was almost perfect using fluently the English language; the content also was quite good giving more than the essential information such as: biographic background, metrical analysis, phonetic features, etymology, spelling changes, etc… Particularly, we liked the perfect explanation of the AABB rhyme used by Chaucer.
Group 11: The presentation made by this group, in our opinion, wasn’t as serious as it could be. Their pronunciation was quite good using fluently the English language, but many times they caused the audience laughing, losing the seriousness needed for this kind of presentations. And to conclude we would like to say that the content was very good.
Group 10: This group started very nervous, but with an excellent pronunciation. Their use of English was very fluent focusing in the important questions of the presentation. They made a perfect analysis of the text emphasising on the characters, they spoke about vocabulary, etymology, metrics, pronunciation, etc… Finally they emphasized on the vowels pronunciation scheme of the G.U.S.
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Group 22: They have talked a lot about the Canterbury tales and Chaucer instead of focusing on their work on portfolio 5 and 6. Although, comments on the 3 portraits was a very good idea.They were quite nervous but they have done a good work.And furthermore they had pronunced so well..
Group 24:from our point of view this presentation has been a good one becausethey have spoke clearly and pronouncing so well. They treated manyaspects like the percentages ofwords, meaning of words according to their semantic fields anddifferentmethods of word formation used in the text.
Group 25:it has been quite interesting because they have given the percentages of words from other languages and periods in history of that language, and also the percentage of lexical and function words. The explanation they have made about the meaning of some words used metaphorically is the most remarcable thing, because it is a theme that most of the groupshave forgotten.
Group 27:it was not a very good presentation, but they have basedit on their work in portfolio 5 and 6. (metrical analysis, problemswhen transcribing, stress and rhyme and the etymology of words), sothey have done it so well. We think they managed well in terms ofpronunciation but they were a little nervous.
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Group 21: they have mentioned a great amount ofadjectives they have found in their fragment, as well as the different lexisrelated to some several semantic fields. According to etymology, they havefocused on “disappeared words” of ME vs. MnE, the situations of metathesis andfrequency lists and percentages of the etymologic origin of the words given. Avery good presentation!
Group 17: they are the first on pasting a portrait ofChaucer in the introduction and we’ll take that idea for our own presentation.They are also the first group that mentions the relationship of the charactersof Canterbury Tales with the three estates of Medieval Age (clergy, nobilityand peasants) as well as the morality of that characters from Chaucer’s pointof view (he defends the poor people and criticizes the wealthy nobility). Theyhave also focused on pronunciation features such the initial “r”, the “I” long,etc. And finally they have introduced a formal farewell using the expression“Thank you for your attention!” to finish their presentation. Again, anothervery good presentation!
Group 18: this presentation is our favorite one by thisimportant aspect: they have not read anything; they have exposed perfectly whattheir PowerPoint presentation introduced. Also they have mentioned again thethree estates of medieval society. According to etymology, they have achievedan important aspect: the relationship between the use of French expressions andthe cultivated status of Chaucer on using them. Finally, they have introduced ashort video, showing us the functioning of the iambic pentameter on theirfragment. An excellent presentation!
Escrito por elsdeloli el 27/05/2009 13:47 | Comentarios (0)
I've already read your messages; I've been very busy working on the portfolio 6. I've used etymonline but I have some problems with the UV-VPN connection for the OED, I will be very pleased if some of you can help with this. On the other hand, I think that we must meet a few days to talk about the oral presentation because there are some aspects that we would have to solve. Well, thanks for your help and see you tomorrow in class. Bye!!
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Well, I have succeed on configuring the UV-VPN, thank you very much. According to the presentation, we should pay attention to what Barry told us in class: marks on presentation will be focused on several aspects such as content, pronunciation, delievery (that is, do not only read, we have to expose and explain), etc. Remember to save the final project as a PowerPoint 2003, the one that may work correctly in class.
I think it would be useful if we all use a similar methodology for Portfolio 6, so I'll show you how I'm doing it. I am combining the sources of the OED, the Etymonline and the LDOCE, if you find another good one, please tell me.
I have used this scheme:
Souce word in bold (frequency in the text): etymological meaning
Swyn (1): common Teutonic word, the spelling of swyn comes from WFris., the common spelling of OE was swín, unitl it became swine in MnE. In OE meant “pig”, but in MnE is used to refer to “someone who behaves very rudely or unpleasantly” (LDOCE).
Hors (1): common Teutonic word, the spelling hors comes from OE, and it became horse in MnE (LDOCE: “a large strong animal that people ride and use for pulling heavy things”). The term hors was originally neutral, used for both male and female, and it was used the same spelling in singular that in plural.
I hope it will be useful to you, see ya and call me for any dounbts. Asier Escriva Gonzàlez
Escrito por elsdeloli el 12/05/2009 19:24 | Comentarios (0)
ieldeloliiiiiiiii !!!! what's up guys!! Have you read last Barrys' emails?? We have to upload here all doubts we could have according to the portfolio and also the presentation. We can use the etymology pages we know and the program antconc to see the frequency of usage of the words. So you know, it is like a pre-presentation. If you don't have acces to the OED, remember to configure the UV-VPN conexion. If don't know how, just ask me. See you at the library this afternoon.
Jose Antonio.
Escrito por elsdeloli el 12/05/2009 11:09 | Comentarios (0)
Upon his own and live in manner good, In honour, debtless (save his head were wood), Or live as frugally as he might desire; These men were able to have helped a shire In any case that ever might befall; And yet this manciple outguessed them all. The reeve he was a slender, choleric man Who shaved his beard as close as razor can. His hair was cut round even with his ears; His top was tonsured like a pulpiteer's. Long were his legs, and they were very lean, And like a staff, with no calf to be seen. Well could he manage granary and bin; No auditor could ever on him win. He could foretell, by drought and by the rain, The yielding of his seed and of his grain. His lord's sheep and his oxen and his dairy, His swine and horses, all his stores, his poultry, Were wholly in this steward's managing; And, by agreement, he'd made reckoning Since his young lord of age was twenty years; Yet no man ever found him in arrears. There was no agent, hind, or herd who'd cheat But he knew well his cunning and deceit; They were afraid of him as of the death. His cottage was a good one, on a heath; By green trees shaded with this dwelling-place. Much better than his lord could he purchase. Right rich he was in his own private right, Seeing he'd pleased his lord, by day or night, By giving him, or lending, of his goods, And so got thanked- but yet got coats and hoods. In youth he'd learned a good trade, and had been A carpenter, as fine as could be seen. This steward sat a horse that well could trot, And was all dapple-grey, and was named Scot. A long surcoat of blue did he parade, And at his side he bore a rusty blade. Of Norfolk wasthis reeve of whom I tell, From near a town that men call Badeswell. Bundled he was like friar from chin to croup, And ever he rode hindmost of our troop.
A summoner was with us in that place, Who had a fiery-red, cherubic face, For eczema he had; his eyes were narrow As hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow; With black and scabby brows and scanty beard; He had a face that little children feared. There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge, No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge,
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Glossary: pleine: plain (clear) þat ye doo sende: that you cause to be sent lieg*: lieges (disciples) þat been oure sugett*: that are our subjects semblable: similar vpon suche attemptat*: upon such violations in such wyse: in such a way ner we cause: nor [that] we are compelled
Escrito por elsdeloli el 08/04/2009 00:33 | Comentarios (0)
- To my right welbelouyd volunteer John Paston gentleman be this letter deliveredand very reverent and devoteand myright welebeloued volunteer I greedto you full heartily of you welfare which I beg almighty God to preserve to hispleasure and your hertys desire andif it please you to here how I am not in good health of body ner of heart not shall I be until I herefrom you.
For there no creature knows what pain I endure
And for to be dead I dare it not discover
And my lady my mother have laboured the matter tomy father very diligently but she can’t get more success then he knows of forwhich God knows I am very sorrybut ifhe loves me as I trust truly that he won’t leave me for this reason. For ifthat he had not half the livelihood that he has, for to do the greatest labourthat any woman alive might I would not leave you
Glossary: vn to: to voluntyn: volunteer squyer: local gentleman bill: letter ryght reuerent: very reverent recommaunde me vn to yowe: I greet you full hertely: very heartly beseche: beg heele: health schall be tyll: shall I be until wottys: knows deede: dead dyscure: discover labored: urged, prayed delygently: diligently (hard working) sche can no more gete: she can't get more full sorry: very sorry tryste verely: trust trully for if...: because if... lyvelode: livelihood (the money) on lyve: alive forsake: forsake (leave)
Escrito por elsdeloli el 02/04/2009 21:40 | Comentarios (0)
- Here begins short texts and comfortable for nastysinful. Where they may have great comfort to him. And understanding theunspeakable mercy of our king Saviour Crist Jesus whose name is worschepd and magnified without end. Nowin our days to our unworthy desires to exercise his nobly and his and hisgoodness. All the workers?? of ourking is for our example and instruction and what grace that he works?? In any creature. Is our profitif lack of charity isn’t our obstacle.
Glossary: tretys: texts wrecchys: awful, nasty solas: comfort vnspecabyl: undescriptable (MnE "unespeakeable" only used to pejorative referent) ower souereyn: owr king, sovereign deyneth: deigns to do something hynderawnce: hindrance, obstacle
Escrito por elsdeloli el 02/04/2009 21:33 | Comentarios (0)
- One night as this creature lay in her bed withher husband she heard a sound of melody so sweet & delectable to-her (it) seemed (word order: it seemed to her) as she had been in Paradise. And therewithshe started out of her bed & said ‘Alas that ever I did sin, it is fullmerry in heaven. This melody was so sweet that it passed all the melody thatever might be heard in this world without any comparison, & caused thiscreature, when she heard any mirth or melody afterward for to have plenteousand abundant tears of high devotion with great sobbings (cry your eyes up)& sighings (suspiros) after the bliss of heaven, not dreading the shamesabd the spites (awful / nasty things) of the wretched (desgraciado) world.
Glossary: started out: wake up scared (from bed) full merry: total happiness mirth: funny sobbings: cry your eyes out bliss: pleasure dreading: similar to sighing wretched: awful, nasty
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- When this creature was 20 years of age or something more, she was married to a worshipful (devote) burgess of Lyn and was with (had) child within a short time as nature wished. And after [that] she had conceived she was in labour (be giving birth) with great fevers till the child was born & then what for labour she had in childbirth & for sickness going before, shedespaired of her life, thinking she might not live.
Glossary:
wyth chylde: pregnant worshipful: devote was in labour: was giving birth despaired of her life: to give up
Escrito por elsdeloli el 02/04/2009 21:26 | Comentarios (0)
Then I have got from you the mastery, Since I may choose and govern, as my inclination "Yes, truly, wife" he said, "I hold that my best." "Kiss me," she said, "we'll be no longer wroth, By my truth, I will be both to you; That is to say, I'll be both good and fair. I pray God that I must be violently mad If I be not to you as good and true As ever a wife had been since the world was new. And, safe I am, at dawn, as fairly seen As any lady, empress, or great queen That is between the east and the far west, Do with my life and death as you like best. Throw back the curtain and see how it is." And when the knight saw verily all this, That she was so fair, and young too, For joy he clasped her in his (two) strong arms, His heart bathed in a bath of utter bliss; A thousand times, all in a row, he kissed her. And she obeyed his wish in everything That might give pleasure to his love-liking. And thus they lived unto their lives' fair end, In perfect joy; and Jesus sends to us Made husbands, and young ones, and fresh in bed, And good luck to outlive them that we wed. And I pray Jesus to cut the lives short Of those who won't be governed by their wives; And old and querulous niggards with their pence, And send them soon a mortal pestilence! Here ends The Wife Of Bath's Tale
Asier Escrivà Gonzàlez Jose Antonio Tortosa Sanz
Escrito por elsdeloli el 09/03/2009 20:50 | Comentarios (0)
This worthy limiter, this noble friar, He always turned a kind of lowering face Upon the summoner, but for courtesy No discourteous word as yet he spoke to him But at the last he said to the wife "Lady," he said, "God give you a goodlife! You have here mentioned, as I may prosper, Upon school matters of great difficulty; You have said many things you are right But, lady, as we ride along the way, We need not talk but to carry on our game And leave authorities, in God's name, To preach and to teach also clergymen. But if it pleases all this company, then
I'll tell you a funny story about a Summoner, By God, you could surmise it by the name That of a summoner may no good be said; I pray that nobody will be angry (made). A summoner is a runner up and down With summonses for fornication known, And he is beaten well at each town's end." Our host then spoke: "O sir, you should attend To courtesy, like man of your estate; In company here we will have no debate. Tell forth your tale and let the summoner be." "Nay," said the summoner, "let him say to me What pleases him; when it falls to my lot, By God I'll then repay him, every jot. I'll then make plain to him what great honour It is to be a flattering limiter; I'll certainly tell him what his business is." Our host replied: "Oh peace, no more of this!" And after that he said unto the friar: "Tell now your tale to us, good master dear." Here ends the prologue of The Friar's Tale
Ruben Paz Simeon Asier Escrivà Gonzàlez
Escrito por elsdeloli el 09/03/2009 14:52 | Comentarios (0)
Egypt is a harsh country and, as in many dangerous havens, there lie (as in each heaven) two great rocks at the entrance (of the heaven)/ Towards the east, is the Red Sea, that runs right to the city of Constantine the Great/ The country of Egypt is five days journey of length / and more than two days journey of desert/ Between Egypt and the land that is called/ Numidia is twelve days journey in the desert, the people that live in that country are Christian but they are of black colour due to the excessive heat of that place and the burning of the sun.
Asier Escrivà Gonzàlez
Escrito por elsdeloli el 05/03/2009 19:52 | Comentarios (0)
Now I will tell you, in what follows, of countries and islands that are beyond the countries that I have spoken of. Wherefore I tell you, in passing by the land of Cathay toward the high India and toward Bacharia, men pass across a kingdom that men call Caldilhe, a very pretty country. And there grows a kind of fruit, as though it were gourdes. And when they are ripe, men cut them into (a-two), and men find within a little creature, in flesh, in bone, and blood, as though it were a little lamb without wool. And men eat both the fruit and the beast. And that is a great marvel. Of that fruit I have eaten, although it were wonderful, but that I know well that God is marvellous in his works.
Jose Antonio Tortosa Sanz
Escrito por elsdeloli el 05/03/2009 19:51 | Comentarios (0)
Also at the Goldsmiths hall, when all the people were gathered, the mayor, John Northampton, painted as bad as it could the election of the previous day and said that truly: “Sirs, this sets the scene for us to be trampled under foot”,and he said “I will not suffer; let us rather die here and now than suffer such mischief”. And then, the common people listening to these words, were stirred up, and said truly they wanted another election and not suffer these injustices, over else all die together, and then every man was told (by the mayor John Northampton) to go home and come back quickly in strength to Chepewith all their fellow craftsmen, and I reckon there were about thirty blacksmiths and in Chepe they were meant to assemble in order to hold a new election, and truly had not the older men come to negotiate a treat and persuaded John Northampton to tell the people to go home, they would have held a new election, and in the hit of the moment would have killed anyone that would have tried to avoid it, if they had strength; and therefore I accuse John Northampton.
Asier Escrivà Gonzàlez
Escrito por elsdeloli el 27/02/2009 13:43 | Comentarios (0)
I, Thomas Usk, have acknowledged these words and wrote them with my own hands. Also that day Sir Nichol Brembre was chosen mayor, soon after flesh came John Northampton to John More’s house, and there came Richard Norbury and William Essex, and there it was accorded that the man John Northampton would send for people who – at the same time – were at the common council of crafts, and for the guardians of the crafts so that they would come to the goldsmiths hall on the following morning, and there the mayor would speak to them, to look and order how the election of Sir Nichol Brembre might be stopped; and had not been for you the fear of our lord the King, I know well that every man would have been in other's throats. And then he sent Richard Norbury, Robert Rysby and me, Thomas Usk, to the Neyte, to the duke of Lancaster, so as to inform him in this wise: “So today, when we wished to participate in the election of the mayor in God’s and the King’s peace, there came in a horrible group of hecklers, who(m) no one knew, and then, without any right other than that of force, chose Sir Nichol Brembre mayor, contrary to the electoral procedures we have used in the past. Consequently, we ask you to issue for us a writ from the king to proceed to a New election." And the duke said: “No, indeed, you shall have no writ. Sort out the matter among yourselves”. And therefore I accuse John Northampton, John More, Richard Norbury and William Essex.
Jose Antonio Tortosa Sanz & Ruben Paz Simeon
Escrito por elsdeloli el 27/02/2009 13:42 | Comentarios (0)
