1. I. 1) When does the Middle English period start? 2) Which non-finite form of the verb developed during ME? II. 1) How did H. Sweet describe the three periods of the History of English? 2) What were the two main groups of verbs in OE? III. 1) What part of speech performed the function of an article in OE? 2) When does the Modern English period start? IV. 1) What languages were the sources of borrowings during Early MidE? 2) How did the system of the English language change in general (from OE to ModE?)

2. 1. The British Isles before the Anglo-Saxon invasion 2. The Anglo-Saxon invasion

3.  the first inhabitants of the British Isles were the Iberians

4.  7 th c. BC.

5.  Celts of the British Isles: Britons and Gaels  The Gaelic branch has survived as Irish and Scotch-Gaelic in Scotland  The Bretonic branch is spoken in Wales and Brittany.

6.  55 BC Julius Caesar  43 AD the Roman Emperor Claudius  Hadrian’s wall (120-123 AD)

7.  strata – street,  portus – port,  vallum – wall,  castra (camp)

8.  Lancaster,  Manchester,  Chester,  Rochester,  Leicester

9.  410 AD the Romans withdrew  Scots and Picts  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle  The origin of English – 449 AD: the issuing of an invitation by Vortigern (king of the British, or Celts)  the subsequent influx of “settlers”

10.  Northumbria,  Mercia,  East Anglia,  Kent,  Essex,  Sussex,  Wessex

11.  The Celts - Wēalas (wealh)

12.  The Christianizing of England (by the middle of the seventh century)  Scandinavian invasion (the end of the 8 th c.).