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Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Event :

Event Date:

Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm

FREE Student comedy performance of "The Canterbury Tales" written over 600 years ago by Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the "Father of English Literature." The students of California Acdemy in Nanshan will perform an adaptation of Chaucer's classic masterpiece and speak as well as sing in Modern English, Middle English and Latin language! This is very special so please come and bring family and friends! This performance is to encourage the study of English Literature and Cultural Studies in China, especially for students who hope to study and live abraod! The event is on a stage in front of Ren Ren Le, very near Li Xiang Park and Shenzhen University. For exact location, call Elise at 153 0268 0475

Event Details

Place Address (English/Chinese):

Ren Ren Le on Yi Yuan Lu near Shenzhen University and Li Xiang Park. Call for directions!

Address :

Ren Ren Le on Yi Yuan Lu near Shenzhen University and Li Xiang Park. Call for directions!

Comments

Hi Everyone! English Lit is

Submitted by LDM on July 2, 2009 - 01:47.

Hi Everyone! English Lit is a big part of passing the Critical Reading section of the American SAT Exam! Let's have some fun with it!

Here is what English was like

Submitted by LDM on July 3, 2009 - 00:39.

Here is what English was like after emerging from 300 years of rule by French Kings. This is the 1st 16 lines of The Canterbury Tales. Come see some high-level Chinese kids speak like this in this funny and charming play. Here it is.. the first "standard" London English:

Here bygynneth the Book
of the Tales of Caunterbury

1: Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15: And specially from every shires ende
16: Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende

"TO CANTERBURY!"

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