The History of English in Ten Minutes

From 1700 to the present day, the version of English spoken is --.

• Late Modern

• Early Modern

• bad

• Old

The English language has adopted many --- from many countries.

• plays
• children
• accents
• words

--- controlled the island of Great Britain between AD 43 and AD 410.

• England 
• Rome
• Germany
• the U.S.

What did the Roman army do in AD 407?

• Conquer Ireland

• Move to the Americas

• Died of the black plague

• left England in chaos

The Germanic tribes, the ---, the Saxons, and the Jutes invaded Great Britain.

• Angles
• Triangles
• Americans
• Apache

Before the Germanic tribe invasions, the inhabitants of Britain spoke a --- language.

• modern

• Celtic

• Bostonian

• terrible

"England" and "English" come from the name of the tribe of ---

• the Cherokee
• the Angles
• the Saxons
• the Jutes

The version of English that was spoken between 450 and 1100 AD was --

• modern English

• Old English

• futuristic English

• Late Modern English

TRUE OR FALSE: Old English sounded and looked like today's English.

• True
• False

The most famous work of literature in Old English is -- (we will read it in class)

• Romeo & Juliet

• the Bible

• The Canterbury Tales

• Beowulf