Learn and Play – Beyeux Tapestry Play the game and Learn about the Bayeux Tapestry
Before you start:
Print the board (for best result print on A3 card). Print and cut out the Question Cards. Print, cut out and fold the Answer Cards Find a token for each of the people playing. Find a dice. Read the rules of the game and have fun! Shuffle the Question Cards and place the deck of cards face down on the side of the board
Rules of the Game:
Roll the dice: move forward on the board of as many steps as the number on the dice. If the box where you land has an instruction on it (move forward one box; move back one box; etc) follow the instruction! If the box where you land has a picture, you will have to choose one of the Question Cards and answer the question on it (each Question Card has a number: one of the other players will have to check the answer on correspondent Answer Card) If your answer is right, you can advance 1 box If your answer is wrong, you will go back 2 boxes. Continue like this in turns: the person who gets to the end first wins!
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Learn and Play – Bayeux Tapestry Question Cards: print and cut out
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Who is the man sitting down? Can you recognise 1. A noble man the 2 animals in this 2. A beggar picture? 3. The king 1 2
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Saxons wore moustaches; Normans shaved all their hair What is this man trying to at the back of the head. do?
1. Flying from his castle Is the man on the blue horse climbing down a rope 1. A Norman? 2. Straighten up the roof of 2. A Saxon? the castle 3. Win a climbing competition 3 4
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What is William holding? What kind of 4. Tape measure building is the one in 5. Scroll the picture? 6. Sword 5 6
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What is happening in What are these knights wearing? Choose all correct this scene?
answers. 1. The king is crowned 1. Armour 2. A man becomes a 2. Axe knight 3. Helmet 3. The court if having a 4. Sword 7 feast 8
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What are these What are these men men doing? carrying?
1. Weapons 1. Building ships 2. Food 2. Taking ships apart 3. Armour 3. Stealing weapons 4. All of the above 9 10
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This picture shows the What are these men Latin d MARE . doing? What does it mean? 1. Cooking kebabs on 1. Wind a fire 2. Flying boat 2. Building a fire 3. Sea 3. Playing a game 11 12 1
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Wha i hi a job? What are these
1. Baker people doing? 2. Butcher 3. Candlestick maker 13 14
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What kind of soldier is this? What is the name of this particular fighting 1. Knight technique?
2. Archer 1. Shield wall 3. Musketeer 2. Crowd-attack 15 3. Shield battle 16
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What is the important historical event narrated in the Bayeux Tapestry?
1. The reign of King Which one of these 2 Arthur images shows the 2. The Norman invasion famous scene of of England Ha ld dea h? 3. The 100 ea a
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This is the Halle Comet which was seen in England in 1066 and is visible from earth What kind of weapon every 75 years. is this knight The last time we saw it handling? was in 1986. When will we be able to see it
19 again? 20
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The king Horse
(King Edward the Bird (hawk) Confessor) [the knight is Harold Godwinson]
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A Norman Flying from his [the Saxon knight is Harold castle climbing Godwinson and the Norman Guy Count of Ponthieu] down a rope [Conan Duke of Brittany]
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Sward Castle
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Armour The king is
Helmet crowned Sward [Harold Godwinson’s coronation
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Building ships All of the above
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Cooking kebabs Sea on fire
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They are having Baker a feast
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Archer Shield wall
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Fold Fold The Norman invasion of England
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Spear In 2061 [75 years after 1986]