Good afternoon my dear students!
Write down the date
Monday, the fourteenth
of March
Тема:
«Культуроведение. Языки Британских островов»
Today we are going to talk about the British language.
I hope you will learn something new for you.
1.
Write down into
your vocabularies the new words.Записать в словарь новые слова. (обе группы)
a tongue-язык, an occupation-завоевание, to invade-вторгаться, an invasion-вторжение, roughly-примерно, compulsory-обязательный, a majority-большинство, overall-общий, полный, to introduce-вводить, привносить ,
related to - связанный, primarily – главным образом, to decline - уменьшаться, native-родной, to die out-вымирать, to revive-возрождаться, fluently-бегло, broadcast - вещание, a descendant - потомок, a tribe – племя
2.
Read the text. (1 группа)
There are
different Indo-European languages spoken in the British Isles. English is a
Germanic language and began to develop in the 5th century AD when Anglo-Saxon
tribes invaded Britain. The other languages are Celtic. They are Welsh, Irish
Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Manx Gaelic and Cornish. During the Roman occupation
and before the Anglo-Saxon invasion the historic native tongue of most of
Britain was Brythonic, similar to Welsh. A direct descendant of Brythonic is
Cornish – the native language of Cornwall, a region in the south-west Britain.
It’s died out as
a spoken language in the 18th century but it has recently been revived and
nowadays around 300 people speak it fluently. Modern Welsh is spoken by roughly
20% of the population in Wales and it’s compulsory to study it at school because
it’s the official language together with English. A third of the population of
Ireland overall speak Irish Gaelic and the majority of the population speak
English. Scottish Gaelic was introduced from Ireland about the 6th century AD
so it’s closely related to Irish. It’s spoken primarily in the Highlands and in
the Western Isles. Unfortunately, the use of the language nowadays is
declining. Manx Gaelic is the native language of the population of the Isle of
Man. Nowadays it’s spoken by 2% as the second language.
Make up the sentences from the parts:
1. were, African, see, travellers, tribe, impressed, to, the, the,
2. turned, she, tongue, fluently, that, her, is, and, speaks, it, native, it, out, French.
3. the, were, revived, surprised, animal, when, learnt, rare, scientists, they, had, that, the
4. influenced, the, of, country, invasion, parts, all, the.
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