INDIVIDUAL TASK 30. What was the linguistic role of chancery?

THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH 31. Why does English have so many spelling
difficulties?
EPISODE 3 32. Who are the reformers and traditionalists?
33. Why was sometimes the spelling adjusted?
34. Did people who tried to rationalize the
1. Watch the video and answer the questions.
language succeed?
35. What is the Great Vowel Shift? How did it
1. When was English returned to the central
happen? Did it change the spelling?
place in society?
37. Who introduced printing to England?
2. What was the English society like?
38. What consolidated the previous gains of
3. How did God speak to people?
language unification by Chaucer and Wycliffe?
4. Was the Bible enjoyed? Why?
39. Was Wycliffe’s Bible still used?
5. What was the language of the street? What
40. What was on May 12, 1521?
language ruled in the God’s house?
41. Who is William Tyndale?
6. What were church services like? Did people
42. Why and when did he have to leave the
understand much?
country?
7. Who read the word of God? How? Why?
43. What did he do in Cologne?
8. What was about to change dramatically
44. Why and how was the whole country put on
starting in the 14th C?
alert?
9. Who is John Wycliffe?
45. What did one bishop do? Why? What was
10. What was the church of Wycliffe’s time
Tyndale’s reaction?
like?
46. Was Tyndale’s translation successful? Why?
11. What was John Wycliffe’s belief in terms of
Did it spread over the country?
the Bible?
47. Was everybody happy with the English
12. When did Wycliffe organize the translation
Bible spreading wide? Why?
of the first English Bible? Where? Who helped
48. What was Tyndale’s last wish? Why?
him?
49. How did he die? What were his last words?
13. Did the English Bible spread fast?
50. Why was Henry VIII in confrontation with
14. What was his Bible like (borrowings, word
the Rome?
order)? Was it simple?
51. Who began the English Reformation?
15. Was Wycliffe thanked for his contribution?
When?
16. Who did Wycliffe train? What for?
52. Did new Bibles appear?
17. Who is a Lollard?
53. What was the position of English by the mid
18. What was held on May 17, 1382? What was
16th C?
their decision?
54. What was the difference between the
19. What happened to Wycliffe?
Catholic and Henry’s Churches?
20. What did Lollards continue doing? Were
55. When and why did King James I order a
they numerous?
standardized version?
21. Was English used to express Christian
56. Did this version use obsolete words? Why?
beliefs?
22. Was the church satisfied with the Wycliffe’s
death?
2. Write out all the words of this period.
23. What was in 1414 and 1428?
1. Which words were first used in the
24. What was the official language of the Bible?
Wycliffe’s Bible?
26. What was the role of Henry V?
2. Which words were first used in the
27. What did Henry V do when he returned from
Tyndale’s Bible?
his campaign?
28. Where was the first circle of Henry’s
government?
29. What were the linguistic differences in
different areas of England?