Project-English English Project Presented by: Date: May 10‚ 2012 Index 1. Presentation Page 2. Index 3. Introduction 4. Origin of English Language 5. Origin of the English Language 6. Origin of the English Language 7. How did the English Language spread around the world? & English as a major business communication around the world. } 8. Conclusion Introduction The English Language has been spoken for many years‚ in this project I will talk about
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Alfred the Great Alfred the Great ruled between the years of 871- 899. He was a son born to Aethelwulf‚ King of Wessex and his queen‚ Osburga‚ in 849 in Wantage‚ Berkshire London. He was born of the royal house of the Jutes of Wight. He was the fourth son born and had one younger sister. He became king only after each of his older brothers had ruled for some time. When he did rule he ruled at a time that they were battling the Vikings. In his period of ruling he defended the Vikings and became
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The English Patient Commentary Page 136-137 This key passage is from Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient‚ found in the first few pages of chapter four. Before‚ this passage‚ Hana is sitting beside Almasy while he begins to describe his first expedition in the deserts in the 1930s. After‚ Almasy explained how he came to hate nations‚ but was attached to the desert as it could not be claimed or own. The passage between reinforces the idea that identity is not fixed‚ it changes over time as people
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watching his own body deteriorate. The line between spiritual and physical rebirth becomes blurred as the speaker imagines placing his soul into an art object‚ something that can outlast all mortal creatures. Sailing to Byzantium portrays the agony of old age and the painstaking implorations and hopes the speaker has of leaving some form of permanence as a monument to his soul. This poem depicts a metaphorical journey of leaving the country of the young that the speaker can no longer relate to and traveling
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Beowulf Essay Prompt: The poem works‚ not through ambiguity‚ but through irony. There is genius in the evocation of an “out-caste” pagan world sustained though the voice of a Christian poet... The engine of this poem is an unflinching‚ passionate theology. But in its psychological acuity‚ symbolic resonance and dramatic realism‚ Beowulf dazzles as a literary classic. The Nordic poem Beowulf transcends ancient pagan civilisation to today’s society‚ where Beowulf remains a literary archetype through
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Mesopotamia‚ now present day Iraq‚ is among the earliest known works of literature. Regardless‚ of losing over a thousand words from its ancient text‚ it is still a great story about the protagonist‚ Gilgamesh king of Uruk. Beowulf‚ written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D.‚ describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. It known as the oldest surviving epic in literature and is commonly cited as the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature
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Lecture Intonation in English Outline 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. 2. Components of intonation and the structure of English tone-group. 3. Sentence stress. 4. Rhythm. 1. Intonation: definition‚ approaches‚ functions. Intonation is a language universal. There are no languages which are spoken without any change of prosodic parameters but intonation functions in various languages in a different way. What is the role intonation plays in the language? Intonation
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Parts of Speech A part of speech (also a word class‚ a lexical class‚ or a lexical category) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items)‚ which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb‚ among others. There are open word classes‚ which constantly acquire new members‚ and closed word classes‚ which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Verb – is a word (part
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proficiency is derived from mandates issued by the US government‚ declaring that a limited English proficient student is one who comes from a non-English background and "who has sufficient difficulty speaking‚ reading‚ writing‚ or understanding the English language and whose difficulties may deny such an individual the opportunity to learn successfully in classrooms where the language of instruction is English or to participate fully in our society." ACTFL views "performance" as being the combined
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The Benefits of Learning English English‚ is an international language in the world. Most people are using this language on the daily life. It is an important language because we use this language to communication with other country’s people. We also use English in many places. For example‚ it is used in the international business‚ computer language‚ movies‚ and so on. As a result‚ many people think learning English can get big benefits. Why we say learning English can get big benefits? Because
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