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Before you watch the segment read the questions. Then watch
the video and answer the questions.
1. What are the reasons for black shift to the north of the USA
after World War I?
2. How did Afro-Americans change English?
3. What brought black and white together?
4. How did European immigrants contribute to the English
language?
5. Why did the words of Afro origin (see the words below) make
such a great influence on the English language in America?
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6. Group the words according to their meaning: jazz, jelly roll,
shake up, the jive, blues, cherry pie, the shimi, custard pie, hippie cat,
the boogie-woogie, the huchie-kuchie, the rock’n’roll.
Segment 4
11.33 – 17.18
Before you watch the segment read the questions. Then watch
the video and answer the questions.
1. What is the social and linguistic effect of American movies?
2. What was Britain’s attitude to the new ‘movie’ language?
Word for Word
Watch the segment and complete two
quotations word for word.
1. “The words and accent were perfectly ___________ , and there
can be no __________ that such films are an _______ influence on
our society”.
Sir Alex Knox, 4th
February 1935
2. “Those truly loathsome transatlantic importations
“___________”, “_________________”,
“_________” and “_____________” are spreading like plague”.
6 March 1935
Daily Telegraph,
Section II. Global Spread of English
Segment 5
17.18 – 23.48
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the video and answer the questions or choose the true answer.
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th
1. What trends made English in the USA a different kind of the
English language?
2. Why has English become so important on the world stage?
a) There was something special and unique about the language
itself.
b) There are social, political and economic factors behind the
spread of languages.
c) In all the countries of the world learning English became
compulsory.
d) The American dream appeal.
e) The vocabulary of innovations was in English.
f) English became the most significant trading language.
3. In what language did the Pope address his hosts during his
historic visit to Israel in March 2000? Why?
a) Edish
b) German
c) French
d) Esperanto
e) Latin
f) English
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Before you watch the segment read the questions and the
tasks. Then watch the video, answer the questions and do the
tasks.
1. What was meant by the American dream after World War II?
2. Make a list of the new technical vocabulary.
3. English has become the language of scientific and business
communication. Prove this idea with the examples from the video.
4. Thousands of English words have made their way to German
and French speech and print. How did their governments respond to
such a trend? What other countries took similar measures?
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Segment 6
23.48 – 29.24