Vocabulary

Dialects

• are different ways of speaking the same language

• Is a system of communication used by humans

counterparts

• It indicates that two things are so different

• Refers to people or things that are similar or equivalent to each other in some way.

Anglo-saxons

• They were like big families who stuck together

• Were basically the early English people, living in England from around 400 AD to 1066 AD.

Shifted

• move or change something from one position, direction, or state to another

• means it won't wobble or tip over easily.

Beowulf

• Name of the person that create English

• An epic poem from Old English literature that tells the story of a hero named Beowulf