EXTEND – Beaten for a book #603251 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

STEP 1 Skim for gist and find out about the Wife of Bath's fifth husband

Read the passage in which the Wife of Bath tells the story of her fifth marriage and select the sentences which correctly express the events from the passage.

A: The Wife of Bath is telling readers of how Jankyn proposed to her.

B: The Wife of Bath is explaining what happened between her and Jankyn after she tore out some pages of his book.

C: Jankyn hit her so hard that she seems almost lifeless.

D: When Jankyn sees her lying on the floor, he doesn't repent for his violent action.

E: The Wife of Bath accuses him of wanting to kill her to steal her property.

F: Seeing how hurt his wife is, Jankyn promises never to hit her again.

G: The Wife of Bath reacts by hitting him back.

H: Jankyn tells his wife that from now on he will read the book only when he is alone.

I: The agreement they reach gives the Wife of Bath control of all their property as well as of his person and behaviour.

J: From that day on they have argued little.

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Scelta multipla

STEP 2 Scan the passage and focus on details

Read the passage again and choose the correct alternative.

1 The 'book of wicked wives' is proof that when men write about women, they speak ________ of them.
2 The Wife of Bath despises the book because it makes Jankyn ________.
3 When Jankyn sees her on the floor, his first reaction is to ________.
4 The Wife of Bath hits him because he accuses her of ________.
5 She affirms that she regains all her belongings and property thanks to ________.
6 When Jankyn gives her back control, she ________.
7 In the end, the Wife of Bath, given the power to choose, prefers a ________ role in the marriage.

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Completamento chiuso

STEP 3 Sum it up

Complete the text with words given in the correct form.
fury ● book ● deal ● quarrel ● accuse ● tale ● behaviour ● add ● control ● apologise

The Wife of Bath tells of Jankyn's act of violence caused by a row over a ________. In his spare time, he used to read negative ________ about wives. When she realised, he would read on all night, she tore out some pages of the books. He reacted with ________ and hit her so hard that she seemed almost dead. While she ________ him of being a thief, he ________ and promised never to hit her again. However, he also ________ that she made him do it by tearing out the pages of his book. They made a ________ at that point: she would have ________ over their home and her husband's ________, including making him burn his book. From that day on they never ________.

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Completamento aperto

STEP 4 Think further and prepare for your oral test: who painted the lion, tell me who?

Read the passage from the book The Wife of Bath: a biography by Marion Turner (2024) and decide it the statements are true or false. Then reflect on the parallels between the historical experiences of women and the challenges faced by women today in terms of access to education, representation, and freedom of expression. You can use the final text as revision material for your test.

A: By asking 'Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?', the Wife of Bath questions the authority of literature and argues for a more balanced perspective.

B: The Wife of Bath's argument was relevant only in the Middle Ages.

C: Jane Austen's character, Captain Harville, has a different opinion about women from Jankyn.

D: Anne Elliot, another of Austen's characters, echoes the Wife of Bath's concerns about the representation of women in literature.

E: Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own suggests that women writers in Shakespeare's time had equal opportunities to men.

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Vero o falso