by Geoffrey Chaucer · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194247580
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«Five Canterbury Tales» is the graded reader by Geoffrey Chaucer, published by OUP Oxford in paperback (56 pages, in English).
In 1386, pilgrims travel to Canterbury telling stories. The book adapts five of the tales told by the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Oxford Clerk, the Merchant and the Franklin. The themes are marriage, love and their conflicts, with simplified text and comprehension activities.
Book from the Dominoes series, level One, with a 400-word vocabulary and CEFR level A2.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language who want to approach the classics through adapted texts and activities.
Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poetry'. He was the first writer to be buried in what has since become Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
