General English. Ульянова О.В - 63 стр.

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2.3 Прослушайте рассказ и скажите, какие события из
восстановленного вами хронологического списка 2.1 упомянуты
в нем.
2.4 Прослушайте рассказ еще раз и вставьте пропущенные
слова.
What we know as the English language was born out of ________
_________ and later spread across the world by invasion. From the fifth
century AD onwards, waves of invaders from ___________
_____________ came across the North Sea to England. They were
___________ ___________ _____________ and came from present-day
Germany and Scandinavia. They drove the _________ _________
_______________ of England westwards into those areas known today as
Wales, Cornwall, Cumbria and the Scottish borders. They established
themselves and ________ ____________ in the territory the Celtic
speakers had occupied. The resulting mixture of Germanic and
Scandinavian languages became the__________ __________ ___
_____________.
In___________, William the Conqueror led the Norman French invasion
of England. For a period of nearly 300 years French became
the_________ _______, although English continued to be spoken by the
__________ ___ _________ _________. Modern English has its main
origins in the _______________ ___ ________ _________ __________
Anglo-Saxon and French.
2.4 Прочитайте текст о следующем этапе развития
английского и
расскажите, кто такой Чосер.
MIDDLE ENGLISH
It wasn't till the 14th Century that English became dominant in
Britain again. In 1399, King Henry IV became the first king of England
since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English. By the
end of the 14th Century, the dialect of London had emerged as the
standard dialect of what we now call Middle English. Chaucer wrote in
this language. He has been called the greatest English poet before
Shakespeare. It is difficult for even English-speakers to read and
understand his writings well.
Can you understand these lines:
"Whan that Aprille with his shoures swote

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