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Worksheets3 курс 2 вариант ИСТОРИЯ АЯ
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The 1st Dictionary of the English Language was published by …
Arakin
O.Jaspers
Noah Webster
Samuel Johnson
H.Sweet
The verb has … categories
syntactical
systematical
phonetically
lexical
grammatical
Many pronouns are characterized by … syntactical use
Plural
Singular
Double
Twice
Two times
Name another great event which was invented in 1438
the great cultural progress
the introduction of printing
the wars of roses
the great literary achievement
the existence of a long
The oldest layer is …
Indo-European
Germanic
Celtic
Teutonic
Common Germanic
This is the Middle Ages International Language of the church which became the international language of the new science now
Australian
Indian
French
Spanish
Latin
Complete the following sentence: People who were born and raised in the region between Birmingham and the boarder of Scotland use … pronunciation
Northern
American
Standard
Welsh
Scottish
So many % of the English vocabulary are loan words …
70%
50%
40%
60%
30%
This is the most significant event of 1455-1485
The Wars of the Roses
The introduction of the printing
The great cultural progress
The Existence of a language
The great literary achievement
The development of English Language began in …
6th c.
5th c.
7th c.
8th c.
This is a great military and political event which influenced the English language in the 8th century
The Scandinavian Conquest
The Roman Conquest
The French Conquest
The German Conquest
The Norman Conquest
During several centuries the ruling language in England was … because it was the language of the ruling class
American
French
Norman
Scandinavian
Danish
This Old English dialect is spoken in Kent
Turkish
Scandinavian
German
Slovakian
Kentish
The following four dialects are usually distinguished in Old English
Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, Northumbrian
Old,Middle, New Shakespeare age
Kentish,Mercian, East Saxon, Northumbrian
Norman,Kentish, Mercian, Saxon, Old Germanic
West,Germanic, East Germanic, North Germanic
The word borrowed from Scandinavian is …
Street
Sari
Husband
Table
Dingo
American English is …
The variety of English spoken in the USA
The Slang
The regional dialect
A local dialect
The variant
The 15th century is marked in Europe by a great cultural movement named …
The development of culture
The epoch of Elizabethan
The Renaissance
The epoch of king Arthur
The rising of literature
Name the title of the book which was first published in 1919 by a well-known American author and journalist Henry Louis Mencken
The variety of English spoken in the USA
The Slang
The regional dialect
A local dialect
The variant
The English Language has some words that are not used either in Britain or in the USA
Canadian English
Greek English
Australian English
Indian English
American English
These are the tribes who began to settle in Britain in the 7th century B.C.
The Goths
The Old Norse
The Angles
The Celts
The Frisian
Complete the following sentence: Wales is a … area
Linguistic
Bilingual
phonetic
lexical
grammatical
They were given no rights after 1649
Bourgeoisie
Landowners
Priests
Merchants
Peasants
This is the period in the history of the language which is termed “Old English”
From the 13th to the 15th c.
From the 15th to the 17th c.
From the 17th to the 19th c.
From the 5th to the 11th c.
From the 11th to the 13th c.
The History of American English Began …
In the 17th c
in the 16th c
In the 15th c
In the 19th c
In the 17th c English is characterized by further growth of vocabulary due to borrowing of words from
Italian
Greek
French
Spanish
Latin
These are the groups of tribes settled in the British Isles in the 5th c
East Saxon
West Saxon
Scandinavian
West Germanic
Old English
The time when the Latin alphabet was introduced into Britain
6th c.
5th c.
7th c.
8th c.
9th c
Irish poets give this name to their land
The Gold Isle
The Grassy Isle
The Isle of Valleys
The “Emerald Isle”
The Green Isle
The history of the English language is divided into three main periods
West Germanic, East Germanic, North Germanic
Old English, Middle English, New English
Old Germanic, Middle Germanic, New Germanic
Old Germanic, Common Germanic, East Germanic
Scandinavian, Norman, Germanic
There are … articles in Modern English
1
2
No
3
Zero
