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Unit7 Learning about English

Part II Reading Task Comprehension Content Question Pair Work

1. It has borrowed and is still borrowing massively from other languages. Today it has an estimated vocabulary of over one million words.

2. They don’t like borrowing foreign words. They try to ban words from English. 3. Old English or Anglo-Saxon English.

4. The Germanic tribes brought it to the British Isles in the 5th century.

5. They are usually short and direct. 6. They use words derived from Old English. 7. An English judge in India noticed that several words in Sanskrit closely resembled some words in Greek and Latin. A systematic study later revealed the Indo-European parent language.

8. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, English, etc.

9. There were three languages competing for use in England.

10. Words from Greek and Roman classics came into the English language.

11. The great principles of freedom and rights of man were born in England, then the Americans carried them forward.

12. No. English is and has always been the tongue of the common people. There should not be any fence around it to protect its so-called purity. Text Organization Working On Your Own 1.

Part One: Massive borrowing from other

languages is a major feature of the English language.

Part Two: the history of the English language

from the Indo-European parent language to modern English.

Part Three: Tolerance, love of freedom, and

respect for the rights of others---these

qualities in the English-speaking people explain the richness of their language.

2.

Paras. 10-11: Germanic tribes came to settle in

Britain and brought Anglo-Saxon words---Old English.

Para. 12: The Christian religion enriched

English with words from Greek and Latin.

Para. 13: the Vikings from Scandinavia came with words from Old Norse.

Para. 14: the Norman Conquest---French influence.

Para. 15: The European renaissance and the

printing pressbrought many new words from Latin and Greek.

Para. 16: The American revolution---the

emergence

of

a

new

variety---Amercan English.

Language Sense Enhancement 1.