BONGABONG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

BONGABONG, TANGUB CITY

ENLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES 11

NAME: _____________________________________________________ GRADE 11 VALIANT DATE: __________

Content Standards: The learner acquires knowledge of appropriate reading strategies for a better understanding of
academic texts.
Performance Standards: The learner produces a detailed abstract of information gathered from the various academic
texts read.
Learning Competencies: Differentiates languages used in academic texts from various disciplines.

A. KEY TAKEAWAYS:
BRIEF HISTORY OF ENGLISH
 Old English usually refers to the period in the history of the English language covering the years from
449 (or 450) to 1100 (or 1150).
 Around the year 450, England was invaded by the Germanic tribes (the Angels, the Saxons, and the
Jutes). These Germanic tribes are regarded as “the founders of The English nation” [Albert C. Baugh
and Thomas Cable, A History of the English Language (London: Routledge, 2002)].
 The account of these invasions is found in the Benedictine monk Bede’s work Ecclesiastical History
of the English People, which was completed in 731 (Baugh and Cable 2002).
 The earliest records of the language date back to about 700.
 Middle English covers the period from 1100 (or 1150) to 1500. William of Normandy, a French
territory, conquered England in 1066. The French rule brought change to the English language.
 The Anglo-Saxons chronicle existed until 1154. By that time, the English language had taken on new
futures different from the ones of Old English.
 Modern English covers the period 1500 to the present in the history of the English language.
 The introduction of the movable printing process into England by William Caxton in 1476 made
possible the production of uniform copies of big numbers of books.
 The increase in the number of schools, in literacy production, and in travel and explorations brought
change to the language from the time of the Renaissance in the 1500s.
 The Anglo-Saxon is the term that came about with reference to the Teutonic tribes that invaded
England. The term is often used to refer to “the earliest period of English” (Baugh and Cable 2002).
Indo-European language is the family of languages to which English belongs.
 The Celts were “the original inhabitants of the British Isles before the arrival of the Romans” [Phillip,
The Story of English (London: Quercus, 2009)].
 Dialect is a variation of a language. Case is the choice of form depending on the function of words
(nouns, pronouns, adjectives) in the sentences in an inflected language.
 Standardization suggests an “ideal” norm or model of usage.
 Mutually intelligible language indicated that the language are distinct from each other and are not
dialects of the same language.
 B. ANSWER AND LEARN:
Directions: Write TRUE if the underlined word/s are/is true and F if the underlined word/s are/is false on the
blank before each number.

________________1. Around the year 650, England was invaded by the Germanic tribes.
________________2. Old English usually refers to the period in the history of the English language covering
the years from 449 (or 450) to 1100 (or 1150).
________________3. The British-Saxons chronicle existed until 1154
________________4. The earliest records of the language date back to about 700.
________________5. The Americans were “the original inhabitants of the British Isles before the arrival of
the Romans”.
________________6. Dialect is a variation of a language.
________________7. The account of these invasions is found in the Romanian monk Bede’s work
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which was completed in 731.
________________8. Standardization suggests an “ideal” norm or model of usage.
________________9. Modern English covers the period 1500 to the present in the history of the English
language.
________________10. The Anglo-Saxons chronicle existed until 1154. By that time, the British language had
taken on new futures different from the ones of Old English.

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