Программа дисциплины История английского языка

 2. Устный опрос
Темы 4, 5
Тема 4
1. Генрих 8.
2. Английская реформация церкви.
3. Томас Мор ?Утопия?.
4. Елизавета 1.
5. Шекспир.
6. Марлоу.
7. Бэкон.
8. Яков 1. Пороховой заговор.
9. Карл 1. Петиция о правах.
10. Английская революция и Кромвель.
11. Славная революция.
12. Викторианская эпоха.
13. Литература Викторианской эпохи.
14. Диалекты современного АЯ.
Тема 5
1. Деятельность грамматистов и лексикографов в р-на периоде. Роль У Кекстона. Роль С. Джонсона.
Установление норм литературного языка и орфографии.
2. Этимологизация написания отдельных слов в р-на период. Случаи ложной этимологизации.
3. Заимствования в р-на период. Интернациональная лексика.
4. Исторические основы современной английской орфографии.
5. История гибридных колониальных языков.
6. Влияние расширения Британской империи на развитие английского языка.
7. Влияние развития науки и техники на язык.
8. Американский вариант английского языка.
9. Английский язык в Канаде и Австралии.
10. Английский язык в Африке, Карибском бассейне.
 3. Тестирование
Темы 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
1. The theoretical aim of the course is to supply the student with all necessary to consider such problems as?
A) the relationship between statics and dynamics in language;
B) the role of linguistic and extralinguistic factors;
C) the interdependence of different processes in language history;
D) all listed above.
E) there is no right answer.
2. The earliest extant written texts in English are dated in the ? century
A) 8th;
B) 9th;
C) 7th;
D) 10th;
E) 5th.
3. The History of the language can be subdivided into
A) historical phonetics, historical morphology and historical syntax;
B) historical phonetics and historical morphology;

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C) historical morphology and historical syntax;
D) historical syntax and historical lexicology;
E) historical phonetics, historical morphology, historical syntax and historical lexicology.
4. ?Vowels and consonants are not altered?
A) true;
B) false;
5. There are 3 main types of difference in language:
A) geographical, social, temporal;
B) geographical, social, historical;
C) geographical, local, temporal;
D) geographical, social, local;
E) historical, social, local.
6. English belongs to the ? group of languages
A) Slavic;
B) Indo-European;
C) Celtic;
D) Australian;
E) Germanic.
7. The 1st mention of Germanic tribes was made by ?
A) Shakespeare;
B) Caxton;
C) Cornwell;
D) Pitheas;
E) Edward the Confessor.
8. Germanic languages can be described under ? headings
A) 5;
B) 8;
C) 3;
D) 2;
E) 10.
9. What happened to Gothic language as a result?
A) the language is ?still alive? and using by few people;
B) the language is dead;
C) the language is becoming more popular nowadays;
D) the language is forbidden to use;
E) there is no right answer.
10. Which language was brought to South Africa and grew into a separate language Afrikaans about three hundred years
ago?
A) the Dutch language;
B) the English language;
C) the Danish language;
D) the Swedish language;
E) the Gothic language.
11. In Indo-European languages were ? ways of word-stress:
A) 5;
B) 3;
C) 4;
D) 6;
E) 2.
12. The Old Germanic languages had a ? grammatical structure
A) stable;
B) synthetic;
C) common;
D) strong;
E) different.
13. The commonly accepted periodisation divides English history into 3 periods: Old English, Middle English and?
A) Modern English;
B) Present English;
C) Real English;
D) New English;
E) Super English.

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14. Old English begins with the Germanic settlement of Britain (5th century) or with the beginning of ? (7th c.)
A) speaking;
B) reading;
C) listening;
D) discussing;
E) writing.
15. The beginning of the Modern or New English period which lasts to the ?
A) 20th century;
B) 21th century;
C) 19th century;
D) 18th century;
E) present day.
16. Which word did originally mean ?secret? or ?mystery??
A) language;
B) word;
C) rune;
D) alphabet;
E) manuscript.
17. The best known runic inscription in England is an inscription on a box called the ?
A) ?Ruthwell Cross? (Рутвелский крест);
B) ?Historia mundi adversus paganus? (?Всемирная история?);
C) ?Beowulf?(?Беовульф?);
D) ?Franks Casket?(?шкатулка Фрэнкса?);
E) ?Cura Pastoralis? ?Pastoral care? (?Забота пастыря?).
18. The other is a short text on a stone cross near the village Ruthwell known as the ?Ruthwell Cross? (Рутвелский
крест). Both records are in the ? dialect
A) Germanic;
B) Celtic;
C) Gothic;
D) British;
E) Northumbrian.
19. The first English words to be written down with the help of Latin characters were?
A) names of the plants and trees;
B) the name of natural phenomenon;
C) personal names and place names;
D) names of battles;
E) there is no right answer.
20. Put in chronological order three alphabets, which the Germans used:
A) the runes, Latin alphabet, Ulfila?s gothic alphabet;
B) Ulfila?s gothic alphabet, the runes, Latin alphabet;
C) Latin alphabet, Ulfila?s gothic alphabet, the runes;
D) Ulfila?s gothic alphabet, Latin alphabet, the runes;
E) the runes, Ulfila?s gothic alphabet, Latin alphabet.
21. The history of the English language begins with the invasion of the British Isles by Germanic tribes in the?
A) 8th;
B) 9th;
C) 7th;
D) 10th;
E) 5th.
22. The Celtic languages are subdivided into two groups:
A) Welsh and Kymric;
B) Gallo-Britonnic and Gaelic;
C) Scottish and Irish;
D) Cornish and Breton;
E) Manx and Celtic.
23. The Roman occupation of Britain lasted nearly ? years
A) 800;
B) 500;
C) 700;
D) 400;
E) 600.

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24. The Germanic tribes, conquered Britain, formed ? independent kingdoms
A) 7;
B) 6;
C) 5;
D) 4;
E) 3.
25. Four principal dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England:
A) Welsh, Kymric, Manx and Celtic;
B) Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian and Northumbrian;
C) Kentish, West Saxon, Manx and Celtic;
D) Mercian, Northumbrian, Gallo-Britonnic and Gaelic;
E) Scottish, Irish, Mercian and Northumbrian.
26. In 878 England was divided into two halves: the south-western under the leadership of Wessex and the north-eastern
half under Danish control called?
A) Britain;
B) Saxon;
C) Northumbria;
D) Scotland;
E) Danelaw.
27. There was no linguistic barrier between them as both OE and OScandinavian belonged to the ? group
A) Slavic;
B) Indo-European;
C) Celtic;
D) Australian;
E) Germanic.
28. The total number of Scandinavian borrowings is about ? words, ? of them belong to Standard English
A) 800, 500;
B) 900, 700;
C) 500, 300;
D) 100, 50;
E) 1000, 800.
29. By the end of the ?the domination of the French language in England came to an end, and English was reestablished
as the language of literature and administration.
A) 18th;
B) 19th;
C) 14th;
D) 10th;
E) 15th.
30. Assimilation of French words by the speakers of English was a more difficult process than that of Scandinavian words,
because?
A) French was more difficult itself;
B) people didn?t like French words;
C) French belonged to a different linguistic group and had very little in common with English;
D) French was a language of their enemies;
E) there is no right answer.
31. The second half of the 14th c. was marked by the flourishing of literature. This period of literary florescence is known
as the ?
A) ?age of Chaucer?;
B) ?age of English literature?;
C) ?age of literature?;
D) ?age of Langland?;
E) ?age of Gower?.
32. ?Artificial writing? was invented in Germany in 1438, by ?
A) John de Trevisa;
B) Thomas More;
C) Johann Gutenberg;
D) William Tyndale;
E) William Shakespeare.
33. The first printer of English books was ?
A) John de Trevisa;
B) William Caxton;

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C) Johann Gutenberg;
D) William Tyndale;
E) William Shakespeare.
34. The first English book, printed in 1475, was Caxton?s translation of the story of Troy ?
A) Utopia;
B) Poema Morale;
C) Chronicle;
D) Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye;
E) Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight.
35. The 16th century is known as the age of literary Renaissance or the ?
A) ?age of Chaucer?;
B) ?age of English literature?;
C) ?age of Shakespeare?;
D) ?age of Langland?;
E) ?age of Gower?.
36. Common Indo-European words included names of
A) plants and animals, agricultural terms,;
B) personal and demonstrative pronouns and most numerals;
C) names of parts of the human body;
D) all listed above;
E) there is no right answer.
37. In the course of the first 700 years of the existence of English it was brought into contact with three other languages:
the languages of the Celts, the Romans, and ?
A) the Goths;
B) the Scandinavians;
C) the Germans;
D) the Italians;
E) the Britishs.
38. Abundant borrowing from Celtic is to be found only in ?
A) place-names;
B) personal names;
C) names of plants or trees;
D) names of natural phenomena;
E) there is no right answer.
39. Variety of miscellaneous borrowings came from Latin, they indicated new ideas, here belong?
A) names of trees and plants;
B) names of illnesses and words pertaining to medical treatment;
C) names of animals and foods;
D) names of clothes and household articles;
E) all listed above.
40. According to their morphological structure OE words fell into 3 main types:
A) difficult words, derived words and compound words;
B) simple words, combined words and compound words;
C) simple words, derived words and integrated words;
D) simple words, derived words and compound words;
E) there is no right answer.