The document discusses the history and evolution of the English language over time. It provides a video and quiz about the origins of English words from Latin, French and other languages. The quiz questions cover topics like the influence of the Romans, Shakespeare, the King James Bible, and the spread of English vocabulary through conquests, American culture, and the internet.

1. The History of English
In 10 Minutes

2. Check out the video in Youtube or the Open
University:
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Watch as many times as needed and answer the
following questions. Careful! The answers come
on the next slide after each question.

3. 1. The Romans gave
English many words
from the Latin
Language.

4. False: Not many
words, though words refering
to simple every day things.

5. 2. French was mandatory
for all official business at
the beginning of the XI- XII
centuries.

6. True

7. 3. Very few words come
from Shakespeare.

8. Falso: About 2000
words

9. 4. The King James Bible
gave rise to a whole
glossary of metaphor
and morality.

10. True

11. 5. In the UK, Latin is the
language of science:
especially physicists
speak in this language.

12. False: This was true
before the 17th century.

13. 6. English has
incorporated many
words from countries
they have conquered.
For
example, canoe, bungal
ow, and cannibal come
from Africa.

14. False: Words from
Africa are zombie and
voodoo.

15. 7. Since 1928, the
invention of dictionaries
has stopped people from
making up words.

16. False: it’s impossible to
stop people making up
words, and dictionaries
have proven this.

17. 8. The USA spread the
language of drugs and
music.

18. False: it has spread the
language of
capitalism, “cool”
movies, and jazz.

19. 9. The internet brought
back typing and
acronyms.

20. True

21. 10. Now there are
around 1.5 billion
natives speakers of
English.

22. False: 1.5 billion people
speak English around the
world, but onle ¼ are native
speakers.