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What do you REALLY know about

the United Kingdom…

or is it Britain….

or is it England???

|British Culture Quiz |

Answer each question to the best of your ability, explaining where needed. Remember…this is a QUIZ so you may NOT talk to your neighbors about these questions. To do so would be a violation of the HONOR CODE.

1. How many countries make up the United Kingdom?

2. What is the current currency of the UK?

3. Who is the current monarch of the UK?

4. Where does the monarch officially reside?

5. What famous river flows through London?

6. What centuries did William Shakespeare live?

7. How many times did King Henry VIII get married? What is the name of at least one of his wives?

8. What are the two largest political parties in the UK?

9. Where are the crown jewels kept?

10. Where were the Beatles from?

11. Who is Nessie and where does she reside?

12. What is a double decker?

13. St. George is the patron saint of England—what is he famous for killing?

14. What is the most popular food in Britain?

15.What is the name of London’s most famous time piece?

|UK vs. US Language |

In the US column, write our word for the UK term; if you believe we use the same term simply write “Same”. “Chips” is done for you.

|UK |US |UK |US |UK |US |

|Clothing Items |School Terms |Food |

|Knickers | |Rubber | |Biscuit | |

|Jumper | |Public School | |Chips |FRIES |

|Vest | |State School | |Jelly | |

|Wellies | |Zebra Crossing | |Runner Beans | |

|Trainers | |Marks | |Scone | |

|Creative Writing |

Using all of the target words AND at least 2-3 of the UK words above, complete the rest of the story. Really let your imagination flow. Don’t try to have the story make sense—just go with whatever comes to mind. Don’t forget to create a title. 1 Page Minimum (hand written; front and back)

Target words: England, suitcase, aviator sunglasses, brick wall, dangerous, cliff, rose colored vase, Stonehenge,

I was on my way to the Tower of London when…

Etymology Activity

1. Open the dictionary to a random page.

2. Look at the first word on the page and make note of the etymology. Words noted as AS or OE are native; the rest are borrowed

3. Make note of the etymologies of 15 words at the TOP of 15 separate pages

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4. What is the ratio? _______ : ________

Native Borrowed

5. What does this imply about the English Language?

|The Development of the English Language |

English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages, all of which developed from a long-dead language known as Proto-Indo-European (circa 4000 BC). This common ancestry can be traced by looking at similarities between words.

|Pәter |

|Sanskrit |Piter |

|Classical Greek |Pater |

|Latin |Pater |

|Gothic |Fadar |

|Old Irish |Athir |

|French |Pere |

|Spanish |Padre |

|Portuguese |Pai |

|English |Father |

|German |Vater |

Proto-Indo-European

Germanic

*Thus, there are many borrowings in the English Language from other languages based on the history of not only England, but Europe and the United states as well.

The English language is divided into three periods: Old English (OE, also called Anglo-Saxon, from the 400s through 1066), Middle English (ME, from 1066 to about the 1400s) and Modern English (MnE, from the late 1400s onward). What is the difference between them? You can see the difference by looking at a text in each version.

|OLD English |MIDDLE English |EARLY MODERN English |LATE MODERN English |

|Uren Fader †at art in heofnas |Our Fadir that art in heuenes |Our Father who art in heaven, |Our father who is in heaven, |

|Sic gehalyed †in noma |Halewid be thi name |Hallowed be thy name. |Blessed be your name. |

|To cymeð þin ric |Thi Kingdom comme to |Thy kingdom come, |May your kingdom come, |

|Sic þin willa sue is in heofnas |Bi Thi wille done as in heuen |Thy will be done, |May your will be done, |

|and in earðas |so in erthe |On earth as it is in heaven. |On earth as it is in heaven. |

|Uren hlaf ofer wirðe sel us to |Gyve to us this dai oure breed |Give us this day our dayly |Give us this day our daily |

|daeg |ouer other substance |bread, |bread |

|And forgef us scylda urna |And forgyve to us oure dettis |And forgyve us our trespasses, |And forgive us our sins, |

|Sue we forgefan sculdgun |As we forgyven to oure |Even as we forgyve those who |Even as we forgive those who |

|urum |dettouris |trespass against us. |sin against us. |

|And no inleadeð uridk in |And leede us not in to |And lead us not into |Lead us not into temptation, |

|costung |temptacioun |temptation |But deliver us from evil. |

|Als gefrig urich fro ifle |But delyvere us fro yvel |But delivere us from evil | |

Old English has different _______________.

• "Thorn" (Þ or þ) represents a th sound at the front of words. The sound it represents is like that in the modern words _______________ and _______________.

• The letter "eth" (ð) usually appears at the end or middle of words, and it represents a sound like that in the modern word _______________ and _______________. A capital eth is written as a crossed-d (Ð).

• Other Anglo-Saxon letters include the letter "ash" (æ), which stands for a nasal /-a/ sound

• The runic letter "wynn" (ˇ), which stands for a /-w/ sound

• The letter yogh (Z), which stands for a gurgling /g-/ sound in the back of the throat that we no longer use in modern English.

Other differences are that Old English does not require a specific _______________order, the way Middle and Modern

English do. Instead, OE uses declensions (little _______________stuck on the end of _______________) to show what each word is doing in the sentence.

Middle English is much closer to Modern English. Spelling has not yet been formalized in a systematic way, and many _______________terms such as "substance" (Latin substantia) and "temptation" (Latin temptatio) have entered English through intermediary French influences under the Norman conquerors in 1066.

The Early Modern English of _______________ day still retains a distinction between thou/_______________, thy/_______________, thine/_______________, which will be lost in late Modern English, and it still retains some spelling variation, though not so much as Middle English. Shakespeare's alphabet in the early modern is practically identical to ours--including the letters "J" and "Z." However, Shakespearean English or Early Modern English doesn't yet have identical punctuation conventions to ours. For instance, the _______________ mark still wasn't invented in 1590.

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Culture/Language Quiz:

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et·y·mol·o·gy  Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy Date: 14th century

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2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies

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