{"id":14,"date":"2009-11-25T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-03-13T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T15:05:34","slug":"on-middle-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/2009\/11\/on-middle-english\/","title":{"rendered":"On Middle English"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: &amp;amp;amp;\">\n<p>Yesterday, as I chatted to my students, I discovered that they have read Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales in their usual school.\u00a0 Flabbergasted doesn&#8217;t really cover it.\u00a0 I asked if they had read them in English and they said yes.\u00a0 I realised when I got home that it could have been the modern English versions &#8211; they didn&#8217;t seem to understand when I asked WHICH of the Canterbury Tales they had read &#8211; but still.\u00a0 That&#8217;s quite a big ask for teenagers who have trouble even with the present simple.\u00a0 Italian schools are clearly hardcore.<\/p>\n<p>4K86MVG5KY72<\/p>\n<p><code>&lt;!-- ckey=\"7EE46024\" --&gt;<br \/>\n<\/code>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/2009\/11\/on-middle-english\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1290977;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as I chatted to my students, I discovered that they have read Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales in their usual school.\u00a0 Flabbergasted doesn&#8217;t really cover it.\u00a0 I asked if they had read them in English and they said yes.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/2009\/11\/on-middle-english\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1290977;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katebailward.com\/drivinglikeamaniac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}