Que tal praticar a leitura e aprender um pouco sobre a História da Língua Inglesa! Então, encontrei um resumo bem bacana e o melhor ainda com vídeo e áudio em inglês para que você possa praticar a leitura, anotar expressões novas e ficar atento em pronúncias de palavras novas para você, principalmente se você não for acostumado com o sotaque britânico, poderá perceber algumas diferenças. Enfim, você pode utilizá-lo para várias formas de exercitar seu aprendizado. O vídeo faz parte da Série " The History of English in 10 Minutes" do Canal "ouLearn" no Youtube , que contem vídeos educacionais da " Open University" e é narrada pelo apresentador britânico Clive Anderson.
Logo abaixo, vídeo e a transcrição em inglês do primeiro capítulo da Série.
Fonte: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/english-language/the-history-english-ten-minutes?track=1
The History of English in ten minutes. Chapter 1. Anglo -Saxon all whatever happened to the Jutes?
The English language begins with the phrase ‘Up Yours Caesar!’ as the Romans leave Britain and a lot of Germanic tribes start flooding in, tribes such as the Angles and the Saxons – who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jutes – who didn’t. The Romans left some very straight roads behind, but not much of their Latin language. The Anglo-Saxon vocab was much more useful as it was mainly words for simple everyday things like ‘house’, ‘woman’, ‘loaf’ and ‘werewolf’. Four of our days of the week - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods, but they didn’t bother with Saturday, Sunday and Monday as they had all gone off for a long weekend. While they were away, Christian missionaries stole in bringing with them leaflets about jumble sales and more Latin.Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happier to take on funky new words like ‘martyr’, ‘bishop’ and ‘font’. Along came the Vikings, with their action-man words like ‘drag’, ‘ransack’, ‘thrust’ and ‘die’, and a love of pickled herring. They may have raped and pillaged but there were also into ‘give’ and ‘take’ – two of around 2000 words that they gave English, as well as the phrase ‘watch out for that man with the enormous axe.’
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By Teacher Rony Gleison
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