Учебное пособие для специальностей «Переводческое дело» и«Иностранный язык: два иностранных языка»

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QUESTIONS, TASKS AND TESTS FOR SELF-CONTROL ON PART 2 
I.
 
Discuss in class
: 
1.
How old is the English language? 
2.
What is Stonehenge?
3.
What is meant by Old English? Give the approximate dates of the Old 
English period. 
4.
What languages were spoken in England before English? Did they have any 
influence on English? If yes, in what way? 
5.
What is the importance of the date A.D. 410 in the history of the English 
language? 
6.
What Germanic tribes are generally considered to be the ancestors of the 
English language? 
7.
What century is generally considered to be the beginning of the English 
language? 
8.
What tribes lived in Britain when the ancient Germanic tribe came to 
conquer it? What languages did they speak? 
9.
Due to what author (monastic scholar) do we know now the story of the 
Germanic invasion? 
10.
What dialects were spoken in Old English? 
11.
How did the names 
England
and 
English
originate?
12.
What 2 main alphabets did the OE scribes use? 
13.
What most famous OE written records have been preserved till our days? 
14.
In what dialect are most of the Old English manuscripts written? Why? 
15.
Find examples of any Celtic words that have come down to us in addition to 
the ones listed in Part 2. 
16.
Of what origin are the place names 
Winchcombe, Brockholes, Leicester, 
Usk, Dorchester, Duncombe, Thoresby, Manchester, Cowperthwaite, Brockhall, 
Rochester, Holcombe, Brimtoft, Whitby, Bishopsthorpe, Satterthwaite, Gloucester, 
Langtoft
? 
17.
What is the origin of the following words: 
shall, skill, shirt, gild, kid, gift, 
leg, scales, sister, scab, they, them, their
? Give a reason for each answer. 
18.
What is meant by calling Old English a language of full endings (full 
inflections)? 
19.
What is the difference between a synthetic and an analytic language? 
20.
What is meant by a grammatical gender? Illustrate. 
21.
How many forms of the definite article were there in Old English? Is the 
loss of majority of forms a linguistic advantage? Why? 
22.
Why was the role of Alfred the Great so important in the history of the 
English language? 
23.
What is 
Wedmore Peace
?
24.
What is the importance of the date 1066 in the history of the English 
language?

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25.
What principal changes took place in the language from Old English to 
Middle English? 
26.
Give no less than 10 words that entered the English vocabulary due to the 
Normans.
27.
What were the causes for the levelling of inflections? 
28.
How many languages were spoken in England during the Middle Ages? 
Where were they used? 
29.
Compare the endings of the nouns in ME with those in OE. What differences 
are there? What simplifications are there? 
30.
Compare the endings of the adjectives in ME with those in OE. What 
differences are there? What simplifications are there? 
31.
What changes took place in the verb paradigm in the ME period? 
32.
What change occurred with the gender category in ME? 
33.
Name some spheres that the French borrowings came from. Give examples. 
34.
What is the importance of the date 1476 in the history of the English 
language? 
35.
In describing Modern English as a language of lost endings, is that an exact 
description? Illustrate your answer. 
36.
What do you know about the Wars of Roses? 
37.
Who is Henry VII and what was he remarkable for? 
38.
Who is Henry VIII? What was he famous for? 
39.
What do you know about Queen Elizabeth I? 
40.
How did colonization and commerce affect the English language? 
41.
What is „the great vowel shift‟? 
42.
What monarch reigns in Britain today? 
43.
What changes in the English language, in your opinion, are imminent to 
occur? When will they be noticeable in the language? What factors will make English 
alter? 

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