## Task 2: Chaucer and his work

Answer the following questions by doing research with the help of these websites:

http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/chaucer.html

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51EqK6suFi4

1. When and where was Geoffrey Chaucer born?

2. List three duties/positions Chaucer held.

3. When did Chaucer begin writing the Canterbury Tales and when did he stop?

Answer the following question by doing research with the help of the following website:

https://newhelpnotes.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-are-three-reasons-canterbury-tales.html

4. List three different reasons why the Canterbury Tales were and are important:

5. What is a frame story? Explain the term by referring to Chaucer’s work

Now go to the following website:

http://www.godecookery.com/pilgrims/pilgrm02.htm

6. Why did people go on pilgrimages in the medieval times? Give at least two reasons.