Transcript Introducing: English - English teaching resources

INTRODUCING: ENGLISH
FRIDAY, 17 JULY 2015
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WHERE DOES ENGLISH LANGUAGE
COME FROM?
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French?
Martian?
Indian languages?
Latin?
German?
Greek?
Arabic?
Ancient Minoan?
Nordic Runes?
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A LANGUAGE THAT IS DEVELOPING
CONSTANTLY…
• From 17th Century, Britain developed an Empire and
the language grew…
• How many words of Indian origin can you think of
that are used today?
• words of Indian origin
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OK, BUT…
• That was when Britain was a conquering nation…
• What about the previous thousand years?
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Who invaded in 1066?
Who invaded in 793?
Who ruled in the 6th century?
Who first invaded in 55/54 BC?
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SO, THERE’S A MIX…
• Working from the end.
• What language did the Romans speak?
• Where did much of this language come from?
• Where did that language come from becomes our
question…
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LATIN/GREEK… LINEAR B?
• Much Latin derived from Ancient Greek… That
language developed as a written language in
around 800 BC.
• We can go further back…
• To 1500-1200BC!
• Linear B, used in the Minoan Empire…
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OK, SO LET’S USE SOME LINEAR B.
• See if you can spell your name:
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A SYLLABIC LANGUAGE – USED FOR
ADMIN!
• Simple signs indicate common nouns:
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BUT, WE STILL USE IT TODAY IN
ENGLISH!
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LINEAR B - GREEK
• After a great catastrophe, the Minoans lost the
knowledge of writing.
• The Greeks rediscovered it some 500 years later and
developed the first ALPHABET.
• Where does this word come from?
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LESSON 2
• You were asked a question at the end of the
previous lesson… what did you find out?
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ANCIENT GREEK:
• Ancient Greek Alphabet
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WORDS STILL USED TODAY…
GREEK Original
English translation
ΙΠΠΟΣ
Horse
ΠΟΤΑΜΟΣ
River
ΑΓΓΕλΟΣ
messenger
ΝΑΥΣ
ship
ΠΟΙΗΤΗΣ
craftsman
ΔΙΑΡΡΟΙΑ
You tell me…the actual Greek
means “to flow through”
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SO HOW IS THIS RELEVANT TO YEAR 7
AT SGS?
• When writing is lost, what happens to
communication?
• We have begun to see how language can develop
over time.
• Some of you may know that the French for Horse
Racing is “Hippisme” – where does this word come
from?
• The English Equestrianism, comes from the Latin
equus…
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MEET GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
• By around 1400, English was emerging as a
language. Latin was spoken and written in church
and the court used French (why?), but the people
were developing their own polyglot tongue.
• Chaucer wrote one of the first texts in the “middle
English, and we will be reading a version of it this
term.
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HAVE A GO:
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Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
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The droghte of March hath perced to the
roote
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And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
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Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
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Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
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Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
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The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
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Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
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And smale foweles maken melodye,
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That slepen al the nyght with open eyeSo priketh hem Nature in hir coragesThanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
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OR:
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When April's gentle rains have pierced the drought
/Of March right to the root, and bathed each
sprout /Through every vein with liquid of such power
It brings forth the engendering of the flower;/ When
Zephyrus too with his sweet breath has blown
/Through every field and forest, urging on/ The
tender shoots, and there's a youthful sun, /His
second half course through the Ram now run, /And
little birds are making melody /And sleep all night,
eyes open as can be / (So Nature pricks them in
each little heart), /On pilgrimage then folks desire to
start.
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NOW, IN PAIRS…
• Make a table of the words used by Chaucer which
are still in use today – there may be some slight
alteration in spelling…
droghte
drought
run
melodye
• How
many more can you find?
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