FORM 1 ENGLISH NOTES ALL TOPICS
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FORM 1 ENGLISH NOTES ALL TOPICS
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LISTENING TO AND UNDERSTANDING SIMPLE TEXTS
EXPRESSING PERSONAL AND GROUP ROUTINES/HABITS
EXPRESSING OPINIONS AND FEELINGS
TALKING ABOUT PAST EVENTS/ACTIVITIES
EXPRESSING FUTURE PLANS/ACTIVITIES
ANALYSING INFORMATION FROM THE MEDIA
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FORM 1 ENGLISH NOTES ALL TOPICS
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated from Anglia, a peninsula on the Baltic Sea (not to be confused with East Anglia), to the area of Great Britain later named after them: England.
The closest living relatives of English include Scots, followed by the Low Saxon and Frisian languages. While English is genealogically West Germanic, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Old Norman French and Latin, as well as by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones.
The earliest forms of English, a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th centuries, are collectively called Old English.
Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England, after which considerable French (especially Old Norman) and Latinate vocabulary was incorporated into English over some three hundred years. Early Modern English began in the late 15th century with the introduction of the printing press to London, the printing of the King James Bible and the start of the Great Vowel Shift
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English is an Indo-European language and belongs to the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. Old English originated from a Germanic tribal and linguistic continuum along the Frisian North Sea coast, whose languages gradually evolved into the Anglic languages in the British Isles, and into the Frisian languages and Low German/Low Saxon on the continent.
The Frisian languages, which together with the Anglic languages form the Anglo-Frisian languages, are the closest living relatives of English. Low German/Low Saxon is also closely related, and sometimes English, the Frisian languages, and Low German are grouped together as the Ingvaeonic (North Sea Germanic) languages, though this grouping remains debated.