1、The Source and Develope of English,Zorro,Content,1150,1500,2011,450 AD,Now,when? What period of history are we really talking about? who? Who were the Anglo-Saxons? where? Where did they come from and where did they go? what? What is old English? why? Why is this all so important?,Key Questions,hw?
2、What period of history are we really talking about? hwnne? Who were the Anglo-Saxons? hwr? Where did they come from and where did they go? hwt? What is old English? hwi? Why is this all so important?,Regularity: whhw,Conclude When:the beginning of the fifth century Who:Angles, Saxons and Jutes(盎格鲁人、
3、萨克逊人、朱特人) From:Germantic tribes in the Northern Europe To:Britain,These three tribes landed on the British coast,drove the native people Celts (凯尔特人) west and north and settled down on the island. These three tribes merged into one people . And the three dialects they spoke naturally grew into a sin
4、gle language, the English language.,DefineOld English is a term used to refer to the language and literature sopken or written in England during the rule of Anglo-Saxons 450 up to the mid-11th century. This language is the ancestor of the Modern English spoken today, although it is quite different i
5、n appearance and sound at first glance.,EngliscEnglishThe land of Angles,Characteristics of Old English,Highly inflected language just like modern German, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs had complex endings or vowel changes, or both, which differ greatly from the language that we use today. In 597，a priest called Augustine brought Christianity to Britain along with many Latin words. In the 9th century,Invasion of Scandinavians(斯堪的纳维亚人): many Scandinavian words came to English.,Words,
