The History of The English in Ten Minutes - Part 2 (Sections 6-10)
The History of The English in Ten Minutes - Part 2 (Sections 6-10)
The History of The English in Ten Minutes - Part 2 (Sections 6-10)
12 help you stay in shape while pretending to be spiritual. If that didn’t 3. Is this an example of
synecdoche or
13 work, there was the cummerbund (c.1610) to hide the paunch. And if metonymy? Define these
terms and provide
14 you couldn’t even make it up the stairs without turning crimson examples.
20 All in all, between toppling Napoleon and the First World War,
21 the British Empire gobbled up around ten million square miles, four
22 hundred million people, and nearly a hundred thousand gin and
23 tonics, leaving new varieties of English to develop all over the globe.
2 Lengua I: Gramática – Cátedra: T7A – 3132
Prof. Titular: Francisco Zabala
Prof. Adjunto: Marcelo Videtta
2 Hopeless Task
6 words slightly differently from each other?” One of the greatest was 2. Compare and contrast
the uses of “could” and
7 Dr. Johnson, whose Dictionary of the English Language took him nine “be able to”. Is it possible
to substitute “could” in
8 years to write (1746-1755). It was 18 inches tall and contained this text for “be able to”?
Is substitution possible in
9 42,773 entries, meaning that even if you couldn’t read, it was still “I tried so hard that I
could open the jewelry
box”?
10 pretty useful if you wanted to reach a high shelf. For the first time
3. Compare the meaning
11 when people were calling you a pickle-herring, a jobbernowl, or a of pretty, rather and
quite. Is there a
12 fopdoodle, you could understand exactly what they meant. And you’d difference? What do
British and American
13 have the consolation of knowing they were all using the standard people do?
15 Try us he might to stop them, words kept being invented, and 5. Look up these words.
Are they still widely
16 in 1857, a new book was started that would become the Oxford used? What’s the effect
of using them in this text?
6. Explain the reference
17 English Dictionary. It took another 70 years to be finished after the of this word.
2 the Ballpark
1. Look up these words
3 From the moment Brits first landed in America, they needed and provide examples in
context (or a translation).
4 names for all the new plants and animals so they borrowed words like 2. Look up the meaning
of these cultural items.
5 raccoons, squash and moose from the Native Americans as well as Can you find other
possible ways to refer to
6 most of their territory. Waves of immigrants fed America’s hunger for them? What’s the
register of each of these
7 words. The Dutch came sharing coleslaw and cookies, probably as a possibilities you have
found?
8 result of their relaxed attitude to drugs. Later, the Germans arrived
3. Define these words.
9 selling pretzels from delicatessens. And the Italians arrived with their Provide the British and
American versions.
10 pizza, their pasta and their Mafia, just like mama used to make. 4. Compare and contrast
white-collar vs blue-
11 America spread a new language of capitalism, getting everyone collar workers.
14 The commuter needed a whole new system of freeways, 6. Define this word. Is this
still in use? Who can use
15 subways and parking lots and quickly before words like merger and this word? Can you
provide alternatives? Can
16 downsizing could be invented. you think of a word that
has undergone a similar
path in Spanish? Why is
17 American English drifted back across the pond as Brits got the this so?
18 hang of their cool movies and their groovy jazz. There are even some 7. Cultural capsule: What
is the NHS in the UK? Is
19 old forgotten English words that lived on in America so they carried there a similar
organization in the US?
Why? How does our
20 on using fall, faucets, diapers and candy while the Brits moved on to health system compare?
2 In 1972, the first e-mail was sent. Soon, the Internet arrived,
3 a free global space to share information, ideas and amusing pictures
1. Translate this word in
4 of cats. Before the Internet, English changed through people this context. What other
meanings can it have in
other contexts? What’s
5 speaking it, but the Net brought typing back into fashion and its category in each case?
6 hundreds of cases of repetitive strain injury. Nobody had ever had 2. Where does the stress
go? Look up V-neck, U-
7 to download anything before, let alone use a toolbar, and the only turn, i-Pad, T-shirt. What
do they have in
8 time someone set up a firewall, it ended with a massive insurance common?
14 became IMHO, by the way became BTW, and if we’re honest that 6. Look up these words
and provide examples in
15 life-threatening accident was pretty hilarious, simply became FAIL. context.
8 itself as a global institution. All this despite a written alphabet that 2. Look up these words
and provide examples in
9 bears no correlation to how it sounds and a system of spelling that context.
17 got so little to do with England these days, it may well be time to stop 7. Look at this phrasal
verb. What idea does
“up” convey? Compare:
18 calling it English. If someone does think up a new name for it, it gobble up, drink up, etc.