Chaper 2 - Mother Tongue

___________ languages are the descendants of Latin, Russian, Celtic, and the offshoots of German.

Indo-European languages influenced the language Celts spoke.

• True

• False

Celts who drifted from the central European steppe spread throughout Europe and settled in the British islands. They lived in the high lands of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Brittany.

• True

• False

_________________ languages were intelligible.

• Welsh and Bretton

• French and English

• Greek and English

In ________ the British Isles were invaded by Julius Caesar and Britons were Romanized, they introduced Christianity and Latin in Britain.

• 54 B.C.

• 55 B.C.

• 56 B.C.

• 57 B.C.

Monks & priests became teachers of poetry, astronomy and arithmetic. It gave English the capacity to express abstract thoughts; before it was easy to express common experience in life (sun, moon, sky, earth, cold, hot).

• True

• False

The conversion of pagans into Christianity brought a large church vocabulary. It introduced ideas & words ultimately as from far away as India and China: orange, pepper, phoenix, camel, lion, cedar, myrrh.

• True

• False

The 1st invasion in England is known as the period of __________. In the 5th century (449-1050 A.D.) the Anglo-Saxons and Jutes invaded Britain. They came from the Danish peninsula of what today is Germany, Holland and Denmark.

• Middle English

• Old English

• New English

Britain was know as ___________.

• QUEEN'S LAND

• ENGLAND

• IRELAND

Most basic and frequently words used in English are of _________ origin, eg. the, he, is, you, wind, water.

• Anglo-Saxon

• French

• German