2º A BILINGÜE: CLASE DEL 21 DE ABRIL DE 2020

Good morning everybody!

Since some days ago, we have been studing how daily life was in medieval cities. We have already studied how the cities were like, their main buildings and appearance. 

Today, we are going to focus on medieval houses and daily life of the different social groups that existed. You can find it in page 134 of your textbook. 

Medieval houses usually had three or four floors. On the ground floor was the shop or workshop belonging to the owner of the house, meanwhile the owner and his family lived in the second and third floors. If the family had servants, they lived on the top floor. 

The main room of the house was a large room with a fireplace that was used as a living and dining room. There wasn't usually much furniture, but there was always a fire lit in the fireplace. This was due to the fire provided light, which was too much needed, because the windows were small and covered with parchment spread with oil. Near the living room was the kitchen, which also had a fireplace, a table and a chest where they kept the cooking spices (very useful because there were not fridges as today).

The bedrooms were usually on the top floor or next to the top floor (so that, they were far from the workshop's noises). The problem was that it was frequently that fleas and bedbugs used to be in houses and affected to both rich and poor people. 

The life of wealthy bourgeoisie was more comfortable than peasant's lifes. They had more abundant and better-quality food, meanwhile the poorest people had a much more limited diet. 

However, both rich and poor enjoyed the entertainment that the city had to offer, such as ball games, dances and street performers such as actors and minstrels. 

Today, we are going to read exercise 25 of page 135: read and listen to the description of table manners in the Middle Ages. Compare them with table manners today. 

You can find the listening here: LISTENING.