Listening: Domesday Book

Listen to this story about a historical event and answer the questions:

1.What does William the Conqueror do this book for?

2.What family does William the Conqueror belong to?

3.Where was William the Conqueror from?

4.Some historians consider this book as the first census of England.Is it True or False?

5.What do some others historians think about this book?

6.What period does this book come from?

 

Here you can check the alternative answers for the questions above:

1.In order to record every piece of land and property in his kingdom.

2.He was from the Norman and Plantagenet family

3.He was from France

4.True.

5.It could be a king attempt to measure his own power at the end of his life

6.Domesday Book was from the medieval period of England.