Time periods of English: Practice

Use this link of bbc page and watch this animation about the history of English language. Click in different objects n the pictures in order to get information of different aspects from each period. Then, answer very briefly these questions:

BBC Animation

1. What relevant information about Latin words you get if you click on the bomb in Anglo-Saxon period? 

2. And in the Viking period? 

3. What can you learn if you click on the globe in the Norman Conquest period? And what information you get about the incorporation of new words in English language?  
4. You are now in the “resurgence of English”. Tell what information you get if you click in the globe

5. Tell the interesting information told about the “Great Vowel Shift” in the “The invention of printing press”. 

6. Click on the paper in “the renaissance”. You are going to listen an extract of Shakespeare´s A Midsummer Night´s Dream. Do you find it difficult to understand what is said? Why you think is easier than previous English?

7. American English features loan words from indigenous Indian languages as well as from immigrant groups. Can you tell me what are these groups? You are now in the part of “Colonialism” of this activity.

8. Why is important Samuel Jonson?
9. Which type of words entered into English language by the time of Industrial Revolution?

10. Watch carefully the last animation and make a brief summary for you to better understand your last part of this course.