古英語 Old English

1、The Source and Develope of EnglishZorroOld EnglishMiddle EnglishModern EnglishPresent-day English115015002011450 ADNowwhen? What period of history are we really talking about?who? Who were the Anglo-Saxons?where? Where did they come from and where did they go?what? What is old English? why? Why is t

2、his all so important? ? What period of history are we really talking about? Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Where did they come from and where did they go? What is old English? Why is this all so important?Regularity: whhwWhen:the beginning of the fifth centuryWho:Angles, Saxons and Jutes(盎格魯人、薩克遜人、朱特人)G

3、ermantic tribes in the Northern EuropeTo:Britain These three tribes landed on the British coast,drove the native people Celts (凱爾特人) west and north and settled down on the island. These three tribes merged into one people . And the three dialects they spoke naturally grew into a single language, the

4、 English languageOld English is a term used to refer to the language and literature sopken or written in England during the rule of Anglo-Saxons 450 up to the mid-11th century. This language is the ancestor of the Modern English spoken today, although it is quite different in appearance and sound at

5、 first glance.EngliscEnglishThe land of Angles1. Highly inflected language just like modern German, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs had complex endings or vowel changes, or both, which differ greatly from the language that we use today. 2. In 597，a priest called Augustine brought Christianity to Britain along with many Latin words.3. In the 9th century,Invasion of Scandinavians(斯堪的納維亞人): many Scandinavian words came to English. 單詞單詞現(xiàn)代英語現(xiàn)代英語古英語古英語現(xiàn)代德語現(xiàn)代德語白天day