LANGUAGE DAY - ENGLISH LANGUAGE

GENERAL HISTORY AND THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH

English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic tribes who migrated to the area of Great Britain later named after them: England. While English is genealogically West Germanic, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Old Norman French and Latin, as well as by Old Norse. Speakers of English are called Anglophones.

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Where did English come from? - Claire BowernWhen we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language. But what do the dialects spoken in dozens of countries around the world have in common with each other, or with the writings of Chaucer? Claire Bowern traces the language from the present day back to its ancient roots, showing how English has evolved through generations of speakers.

MATCHING ACTIVITY - READ THE TEXT AND MATCH THE PICTURES WITH THE FIVE AGES OF ENGLISH

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The Five Ages of English Labelled diagram - Drag and drop the pins to their correct place on the image.

Ak si myslíš že angličtina je EASY, tak sa presvedč sám: "iba" 7 nepravidelných plurálov: child-children, ox-oxen, man-men (woman-women), tooth-teeth, goose-geese, mouse-mice! A ešte zopár zvláštností.

A brief history of plural word...s - John McWhorterAll it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn't always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German -- and books, names and eggs were beek, namen and eggru!

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