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Grade and Strand: Quarter 1 – EAPP

English for Academic and

Professional Purposes

Quarter 1 – Module 2: Summarization of Text

 What I can do

Write a 200-word essay to summarize the history of English.

The beginnings of the English language, as far as we might be concerned today,

can be followed back similar to c. 449 AD with the beginning of Germanic clans into
Britain. With the appearance of three Germanic clans who attacked Britain during the
fifth century AD, the historical backdrop of the English language truly started. Based on
what is currently Denmark and northern Germany, these clans, the Angles, Saxons and
Jutes, crossed the North Sea. Individuals of Britain at that period communicated in the
Celtic language. However, the intruders constrained the majority of the Celtic speakers
west and north - generally into what is presently Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The Angles
came from "Englaland" and were designated "Englisc" in their language - from which the
words "Britain" and "English" are inferred. English is a West Germanic language starting
from the Anglo-Frisian lingos brought to Britain by Anglo-Saxon pioneers based on what is
currently northwestern Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands during the fifth
to seventh hundreds of years AD. In the end, the Late West Saxon tongue became
prevailing.

From that point, the historical backdrop of the English language is traditionally
consolidated into three central recorded periods (these being Old English, Middle English
and Modern English) which are, as expressed by Culpepper, "advantageous names for
these periods which correspond with major phonetic changes just as major social, political
and social changes." (Culpepper, 15). This article will both recognize and examine the
fundamental standards that etymologists use to separate the English language into various
periods (Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English) just as investigate how
and why the English language is partitioned into these stages.

As momentarily previously mentioned, Old English or OE, is dated around 450-

1100 AD with the appearance of Anglo-Saxons into Britain. Bede's Ecclesiastical History
(finished c.731 AD) illustrated the primary pioneers as being Angles, Saxons and Jutes who
came from Germany (North-West), Denmark and the Netherlands (Frisia), and the tongues
expressed by these gatherings formed into Anglo-Saxon or Old English. Early English was
initially written in a runic content known as the 'futhorc', named after its initial six letters.