UNIT 1: From the beginning

Outline Unit 1: James Milroy's article

Activities about James Milroy's article

Indo European video summary

Text 1: Lord's Prayer in Old English

Unit 1: Historical context 

UNIT 2: Towards the formation of a Standard

Text 2: W. Caxton prologue of his translation of Virgil's Aeneid (1490)

Text 3: W. Caxton’s Version of Higden’s Polycronicon (1482)

Text 4: G. Puttenham The Arte of English Poesie (1590)

Text 5: R. Verstegan A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1608)

Text 6: Thomas Sprat's The History of the Royal Society, (1667)

First PIE Exam model 

Activities

UNIT 3: The vocabulary explosion and the consolidation of Standard English

Outline Unit 3: Tony Crowley's chapter 3: Wars of words.

Activities of Tony Crowley's chapter 3: Wars of words, the roles of language in eighteenth-century Britain.

Activities about Shakespeare and The Bible

Activities about the birth of Standard English and the demise of Cockney 

UNIT 4: Expansion and Hegemony of English

Activities about Highlands, India, Australia and Africa. 

Possible questions about United Sates

 

Bibliography

Doubts 

 

 

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
Barry Pennock Speck
© Carolina Cody Aldaz
cacodyal@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press