THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH ( Part 1 )
The History of English in 10 minutes is a collection of ten one-minute videos from The Open University, which provides a funny approach to the history of the English language.
To fully understand the video, you will have to do some research on who the Jutes, the Anglos, the Saxons, the Vikings and the Romans were and what relationship they had with the British.
The English language begins with the phrase Up your Caesar, as the Romans (1) ... Britain, and a lot of Germanic tribes start (2) ... in, tribes such as the Saxons and the Anglos, who together gave us the term Anglo-Saxon, and the Jukes, who didn’t.
The Romans left some very (3) ... ... 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’, ‘(4) ...’ and ‘werewolf’.
Four of our days of the week were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods. They didn’t (5) ... with Saturday, Sunday or Monday as they’d all gone off for a long weekend.
While they were away, Christian missionaries stole in bringing with them with (6) ... about jumble sales and more Latin. Christianity was a (7) ... with the locals and made them much happy to take on funky new words from Latin like ‘martyr’, ‘bishop’ and ‘font’.
Along came the Vikings with their action man words like ‘drag’, ‘ransack’, ‘thrust’ and ‘die’. They made have (8) ... and pillaged but they were also into (9) ... and (10) ... . Two of around two thousand words they gave English, as well as the phrase ‘Watch out for that man with the enormous axe’.
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