reading englishanditshistory unit2 lead in 1 areyougoodatenglish whatdoyouthinkisthemostdifficultpartofstudyingenglish pronunciation grammar vocabularyorsomethingelse 2 doyouthinkenglishhasalwaysstayedthesame givesomeexamples 1 whatisthearticleabout 2 whatarethethreekindsofenglishdiscussedinthearticle 3 isenglishstillchanging fast reading englishanditshistory oldenglish middleenglishandmodernenglish yes carefulreading whatwerethebigeventsinenglishhistoryduringallthesetimes theangles saxons jutes thevikings thefirstkind thesecondkind thethirdkind thedevelopmentofenglish oldenglish middleenglish modernenglish part1oldenglish saxon time events beforethemiddleofthe5thcentury peopleinbritainallspokealanguagecalledceltic attheendofthe9thcentury thevikingsinvadedbritainandbroughttheirlanguages bythe10thcentury oldenglishwastheofficiallanguageofengland part2middleenglish henryiv bythelatterhalfofthe14thcentury in1399 englishwasadoptedbyallclassesinengland henryivbecamekingofenglandandusedenglishforallofficialoccasions time events thenormansconqueredenglandandtookcontrolofthecountry part3modernenglish therenaissance modernenglishbegan time events readthewholepassageagainandanswerthefollowingquestions 1 wheredidtheangles thesaxonsandthejutescomefrom 2 whycansimilarpairsofwordsbefoundintheenglishlanguage theeuropeanmainland becauseeachwordorphrasecamefromadifferentlanguage careful reading c1 3 whatwasthegermanpluralformreplacedby 4 whichkingofenglandusedenglishforallofficialoccasions 5 whendidmodernenglishappear thefrenchwayofmakingplurals kinghenryiv therenaissance readthewholepassageagainandanswerthefollowingquestions matchthenewwords confusingcreatedconsistedoftookcontrolofreplacedraised a wasmadeupofb kept ananimal c tooktheplaceofd hadpowerovere difficulttounderstandf causedsomethingtoexist careful reading d1 listentothetapeandfillintheblankswiththefollowingwordsanddatesfromthepassage 1 beforethemiddleofthe peopleinbritaindidnotspeakenglish 2 theoriginallanguagespokeninbritainwas 3 threegroupsofpeoplecametobritainfromthe 5thcentury celtic european post reading c2 10thcenturyfrencheuropean5thcenturyanglesceltic1066 4 the thesaxonsandthejutesspokelanguagesthatmadeupanglo saxon 5 normansspoke 6 thenormansenteredenglandin 7 bythe oldenglishwastheofficiallanguageofenglish angles 10thcentury 1066 french 10thcenturyfrencheuropean5thcenturyanglesceltic1066 whatarethewordsfortheirmeat pork bacon beef mutton post reading d2 fillintheblankswiththewordsfromthebox therearemanydifferent ofenglishdependingonwherepeoplelive whenoldenglishwasdeveloping it ananglo saxonbase withmanywordsfromotherlanguages beforepeoplecouldwrite theyusedpoemstorecordthehistoryofengland oldenglishbecamethe languageofenglandinthe10thcentury english haslotsofsimilarwordsforthesamethingandthatisbecausesomanydifferentpeoplefromother dialects consistedof mixed post reading e consistedofvocabularyservantsmothertongueofficialdialectsmeatmixed official vocabulary fillintheblankswiththewordsfromthebox countriescametoengland anotherthingthathappenedinenglishisthattherearedifferentwordsforanimalsandthe whichcomesfromthem thisisbecausetheenglish cookedforthefrench kinghenryiv s wasenglishandhewasthefirstkingtouseenglishafterthenormanscametoenglandin1066 meat servants mothertongue post reading e consistedofvocabularyservantsmothertongueofficialdialectsmeatmixed readingstrategy readingahistoryarticle dates years e g the5thcentury helpyouunderstandasequenceofeventsandhowpiecesofinformationrelatetothetext whatshouldyounotice why whatcanyoudowhenyoureadahistoryarticle makeatimechart listingrelevantinformationsuchastimes placesandevents discussion languagesborrowwordsfromeachother listsome e g chinesewordsfrom