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Unit7 LearningaboutEnglish

PartIIReadingTaskComprehensionContentQuestionPairWork

Ithasborrowedandisstillborrowingmassivelyfromotherlanguages.Todayithasanestimatedvocabularyofoveronemillionwords.

Theydon’tlikeborrowireniggnfwoords.TheytrytobanwordsfromEnglish.

OldEnglishorAnglo-SaxonEnglish.

TheGermanictribesbroughtittotheBritishIslesinthe5thcentury.

Theyareusuallyshortanddirect.

TheyusewordsderivedfromOldEnglish.

AnEnglishjudgeinIndianoticedthatseveralwordsinSanskritcloselyresembledsomewordsinGreekandLatin.AsystematicstudylaterrevealedtheIndo-Europeanparentlanguage.

Greek,Latin,Sanskrit,English,etc.

TherewerethreelanguagescompetingforuseinEngland.

WordsfromGreekandRomanclassicscameintotheEnglishlanguage.

ThegreatprinciplesoffreedomandrightsofmanwereborninEngland,thentheAmericanscarriedthemforward.

No.Englishisandhasalwaysbeenthetongueofthecommonpeople.Thereshouldnotbeanyfencearoundittoprotectitsso-calledpurity.

TextOrganizationWorkingOnYourOwn1.

PartOne:MassiveborrowingfromotherlanguagesisamajorfeatureoftheEnglishlanguage.PartTwo:thehistoryoftheEnglishlanguagefromtheIndo-Europeanparentlanguagetomodern

English.

PartThree:Tolerance,loveoffreedom,andrespectfortherightsofothers---thesequalitiesintheEnglish-speakingpeopleexplaintherichnessoftheirlanguage.

2.

Paras.10-11:GermanictribescametosettleinBritainandbroughtAnglo-Saxonwords---OldEnglish.

Para.12:TheChristianreligionenrichedEnglishwithwordsfromGreekandLatin.Para.13:theVikingsfromScandinaviacamewithwordsfromOldNorse.

Para.14:theNormanConquest---Frenchinfluence.

Para.15:TheEuropeanrenaissanceandtheprintingpressbroughtmanynewwordsfromLatinandGreek.

Para.16:TheAmericanrevolution---theemergenceofanewvariety---AmercanEnglish.

LanguageSense