THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Languages How many languages can you name? What helped you recognize the languages you didn't speak? French Swedish Polish Turkish German Spanish Italian Lithuanian How many languages do you recognize in the picture? Have you guessed any languages although you don't speak them? How? French Italian German Lithuanian Polish Hungarian Swedish Spanish Turkish Romanian Portugese Please, open your book on page 64 and listen to the text about the history of the English language. Click on this link to listen to the text Page 64, Exercise 1a Sort out these words: parliament, good, get, husband, beef, sky, language, break, man The Anglo-Saxons good man break The Vikings sky get husband The Normans parliament language beef As you can see from the text English has borrowed a lot from other languages. Do you know any Croatian words that were borrowed from English that you use every day? Write or record your answer. Reading Read the text several times. If you have problems understanding or reading words, click on this linkOxford Online Dictionary Reading Please, record yourself reading one paragraph. Matching Can you tell which language did these, now English, words come from? bank Italian tea Chinese guitar Spanish robot Czech yoghurt Turkish coach Hungarian pyjamas Hindi Let's recap! Fill in the missing words: ENGLISH BIBLE, CELTS, VIKINGS, Latin, SHAKESPEARE and NORMANS CELTS Latin VIKINGS NORMANS ENGLISH BIBLE SHAKESPEARE This is the end of your lesson today. Thank you for stopping by. Please share your thoughts on the lesson. Name two things you've learned today.