2. Google Presentations - Features
• Similar to PowerPoint
• Multiple people can edit at once
• Chat
• Comments
• Built in Image Search (CC) and YouTube
vids
• Research and Define tools
3. Summarising and Presenting
• Own words
• Short phrases of key points
• 4-7 bullets per slide
• Sub-bullets where appropriate
• Images where appropriate (CC)
• Sources
o Variety
o List
6. Origins - before 9th Century 800AD)
• Welsh (Cymraeg) is the oldest language in Britain,
dating back about 4,000 years.
• Evolved from a language now called Indo-
European.
• Related to Celtic, Cornish and Breton.
• It probably arrived in Britain during the Bronze Age
or Iron Age.
7. Old Welsh 9-11th C (800-1000)
• From about 800 AD until the early 12th century.
• Then it developed into Middle Welsh.
• The oldest surviving text is that on a gravestone
now in Tywyn church, from the early 8th
century.
• The basic Latin alphabet was used to represent
the phonology.
• The Poetry of Aneirin and the Poetry, or Book,
of Taliesin were in this era.
8. Middle Welsh 11-14th C (1000-1300)
• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn became the ruler of Wales after
defeating Ralph the Timid.
• A revolt began in South Wales by Hywel ap
Mahgredudd, he marched to the Gower, defeating the
Norman and English colonists there at the Battle of
Llwchwr.
• The Treaty of Gwerneigron is signed by Dafydd ap
Llywelyn and Henry III
• Richard of Pudlicott stole King Edward I's Wardrobe
treasury which included the Crown Jewels at
Westminster Abbey
9. Modern Welsh 15-18th C (1400-
1700)
• 1451 - Carmarthen Eisteddfod (arguably
the first)
• 1535 & 1542 - Acts of Union
o English only language in court.
o Those who used Welsh banned from
public office in Wales
o (Only officially repealed in 1993!)
• 1588 - William Morgan's Bible translation
• 1731 - Griffiths Jones Welsh language
'moving schools'
• 1789 - First Eisteddfod where public as well
as poets and nobles allowed!
• 1792 - Iolo Morgans "revived" (made up!) a
lot of the key Eisteddfod traditions
10.
11. 19th Century (1800s)
• Socialism developed in South Wales in the latter
part of the century, accompanied by the
government getting involved religious
Nonconformism.
• The first Labour MP, Kier Hardie, was elected as
junior member for the Welsh constituency of
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare in 1900's.
• The social effects of industrialisation resulted in
armed uprisings against the mainly English
owners.
12. 19th Century (1800s)
• The Welsh Not or Welsh Note was a punishment
system used in some Welsh schools to dissuade
children from speaking Welsh.
• It was represented as a piece of wood, inscribed
with the letters "WN", that was hung around the
necks of children who spoke Welsh during the
school day.
13. 19th Century (1800s)
• The Treachery of the Blue Books or Treason of
the Blue Books (Welsh: Brad y Llyfrau Gleision)
was the name given in Wales to the Reports of
the commissioners of enquiry into the state of
education in Wales published in 1847.
• The term Brad y Llyfrau Gleision was coined by
the author Robert Jones Derfel in response to
the Reports' publication.
14. 20th & 21st Century
• According to the 1911 census, out of a population of just under 2.5
million, 43.5% of the total population of Wales spoke Welsh as a
primary language
• In the 2011 Census 19% of Welsh residents aged three and over
reported being able to speak Welsh.
• S4C was launched on 2 November 1982
• The Welsh Language Act 1993 put the Welsh language on an
equal footing with the English language.
• The Welsh Language Society was formed on the 4th August 1962.
• Since 1999, the teaching of Welsh is now compulsory in all schools
in Wales up to age 16.
• The European Union has 24 official and working languages. Welsh
is not one of them!
15. Some Views from the group...
• "I learned it as an adult because I was working at
Oystermouth castle and didn't like having to tell tourists
who asked that no I didn't speak it!"
• "Welsh Language Act has probably doubled the printed
stationery costs of official documents in Wales."
• "Everyone should speak their mother language"
• "Everyone should learn another language"
• "Went to a Welsh school, not used it since"
• "It'd be okay to know some Welsh."
• "I would like to learn Welsh again"
17. Skills Used
• Presentation
• Google Drive (Cloud technology)
• Groupwork
• Research
• Listing sources
• Summarising
• Reading for specific information
• Skimming and scanning texts
• Formatting
