How to ... enrich your own text

You've learnt to create a map and to write a simple text that hints at the structure of the original text. Then you've read how to complete the map with elements from the original text.

It's now time to understand how to enrich your brief text.

As already said in other sections, the map is to be read from top to bottom, from right to left.

The text here below is only an example.

During the Middle Ages:
two languages, Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, became one English language. English became the language of the royal court and Parliament by 1400.

Is it possible to further enrich the text ? Of course.

You can add words in Norman-French and/or Anglo-Saxon to explain the difference between the languages.

You can also explain how laws were written into Latin.

This is the complete map from the text "The Middle Ages".

Let's see how the summary sounds like.

The period between 1066 and 1485 is called the Middle Ages.
During the Middle Ages:
two languages, Norman French and Anglo-Saxon, became one English language. English became the language of the royal court and Parliament by 1400.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a series of poems in English about a group of people going to Canterbury. The collection of poems is called 'The Canterbury Tales'.
In Scotland many people spoke Gaelic but the Scots language developed as well.
Castles were built in England and Ireland for defence.
England was a trading nation, attracting people from abroad to trade and work. English wool became a very important export.