ORAL TRADITIONS ENGLAND

The importance of England's oral traditions for learning and teaching English

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1. the ghosts of the city of York

2. Remedies and recipies

2.1. the recipes and remedies were preserved for years, originating in country customs were told by adult women and shared with the youngest for several generations until the appearance of the printing press

3. Music

3.1. The origins of music in Britain lie in the songs sung and dance music played by ordinary people. Passed from village to village and handed down in the unwritten form from generation to generation.

3.2. four hundred years ago the common instruments were the pipe and tabor, but now these have been joined by the fiddle, concertina, melodeon and accordian and a host of other instruments

3.2.1. Morris dance music

3.3. Popular music 1960 Beatles

4. Poetry

4.1. The applications of poetry in language teaching during the last two decades have shown that the integration of poetry in the study of additional languages helps to increase the confidence and autonomy of learners (Elting & Firkins, 2006; Gulla, 2015), It supports attention to the grammatical form and semantic richness of the language (Hanauer 2001; Fomeche, 2015), and increases critical thinking (Elster 2000).

4.1.1. Beowulf

4.1.2. William Shakespeare

5. Through the worldwide influence of the British Empire, English spread throughout the world from the XVII to XX centuries

6. Britain is a country rich in traditional stories and folk songs and the folk music tradition still lives on

6.1. In Wales and the north west of Scotland where Welsh and Gaelic are spoken there is also a rich oral tradition in those languages, with songs and poetry being written by farmers and other country people on a regular basis

7. Story tales

7.1. It was a fundamental task for women caregivers and children structures, it was the way to instruct and entertain them in the house. I take so much importance in raising children that they considered it trivial and corrupt, because they thought it interrupted advanced education.

7.1.1. This has a lot to do with Norse or Scandinavian mythology since it covers the religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian peoples, as well as those who settled in Iceland, and where the written sources of Norse mythology met, and represent a version much better preserved from ancient Germanic mythology, common to all Germanic peoples.

8. Myths and legends

8.1. to identify the mythology and legends of england one must first know the scandivana mythology, because from there come many of the stories.

8.1.1. The legends and myths always have a strong relationship with the culture of a country, and the influence develops from historical events, telling victories of wars and events to influence the vision of the country to the following generations.

8.2. Loch Ness Monster

8.3. Leprechauns

8.4. La bruja de Wookey Hole

8.5. King Arthur

8.6. Robin Hood

9. Anglo-Saxon mythology