1. mutation of consonants

2. suffixation

3. Vowel gradation

9. The OE word "wifman" "woman" was ...

1. feminine.

2. masculine.

3. neuture.

10. What words mentioned in the movie DIDN NOT come from Anglo-Saxons?

1. dog

2. house

3. wife

11. What is wrong? The Old English vocabulary consisted of:

1. Common Indo-European Words

2. Common Icelandic Words

3. Anglo-Saxon Words

12. The suffix -dom was used to :

1. build up nouns that show guarantee

2. build up nouns that show quantity

3. build up nouns that show quality

13. What day of the week was named in honor of Anglo-Saxon gods?

1. Monday

2. Friday

3. Sunday

14. The suffix -linʒ was used to :

1. show that something was very ugly

2. show that something was very beautiful

3. show that something was very dear

15. The suffix -ness/nis was used to :

1. build up an adjective from a noun

2. build up a noun from an adjective

3. build up a noun from an adverb

16. Finnish is an ... language.

1. incorporating

2. agglutinative

3. isolating

17. What is a "speech community"?

1. a speech given at a special meeting

2. a community of multinational speakers

3. a group that uses any given language

18. What Indo-European language is already dead?

1. Tocharian

2. Latin

3. Hellenic

19. Language is ...

1. the ability to speak

2. utterance

3. a system for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc. by the use of spoken sounds or conventional symbols

20. What is a synonym to the term "diphthong"?

1. a glide

2. a double sound

3. a velum

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Протокол № 3 от «02» ноября 2017 года

Составитель ________________ Бридко Т.В.

(подпись) (фамилия и инициалы)

Руководитель ОПОП ________________ Полховская Е.В.

(подпись) (фамилия и инициалы)

«______» ___________________________ 20 г.

МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

ФГАОУ ВО «КФУ ИМ. В.И. ВЕРНАДСКОГО»

Таврическая академия (структурное подразделение)

Институт иностранной филологии

Направление подготовки 45.03.01 «Филология»

профиль Английский язык и литература

Дисциплина История основного иностранного языка (английского)

АТТЕСТАЦИОННЫЙ БИЛЕТ №16

Choose the correct answer:

1. The first King after the Norman Conquest whose native tongue was English was:

1. King Henry I

2. King Henry IV

3. King Alfred the Great

2. What were three main consequences of the Norman Conquest?

a) The strengthening of king’s power;

b) The establishment of new aristocracy;

c) The overall usage of the French language;

3. The person who introduced printing to England was:

a) William Caxton

b) Henry Tudor

c) King Henry IV

4. Finnish is an ... language.

1. incorporating

2. agglutinative

3. isolating

5. What is a "speech community"?

1. a speech given at a special meeting

2. a community of multinational speakers

3. a group that uses any given language

6. What Indo-European language is already dead?

1. Tocharian

2. Latin

3. Hellenic

7. Language is ...

1. the ability to speak

2. utterance

3. a system for the expression of thoughts, feelings, etc. by the use of spoken sounds or conventional symbols

8. What is a synonym to the term "diphthong"?

1. a glide

2. a double sound

3. a velum

9. What is wrong? The Old English vocabulary consisted of:

1. Common Indo-European Words

2. Common Icelandic Words

3. Anglo-Saxon Words

10. What words mentioned in the movie DIDN NOT come from Anglo-Saxons?

1. dog

2. house

3. wife

11. Borrowings in OE were mainly from:

1. Saxon

2. Celtic

3. Latin

12. What is true about Germanic languages? Germanic became different from the other Indo-European language groups in seven main ways:

1. The Indo-European verbal system was simplified

2. The Indo-European verbal system became more complicated.

3. The Indo-European verbal system did not change.

13. What is NOT one of the phonetic peculiarities of Germanic languages?

1. Reduction of unstressed syllables;

2. Reduplication of unstressed syllables;

3. A fixed stress on the first syllable;

14. To the East Germanic group belong the following languages:

1. Russian, Bulgarian, Polish

2. Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian

3. Gothic, Vandalic, Burgundian

15. What is "ablaut"?

1. vowel gradation;

2. reduplication of unstressed syllables;

3. vowel mutation

16. What is true about Germanic languages? Germanic became different from the other Indo-European language groups in seven main ways:

1. One consonant shift occurred in Germanic.

2. Two consonant shifts occurred in Germanic.

3. Three consonant shifts occurred in Germanic.

17. To the West Germanic group belong the following tribes:

1. Franks, Italians, Irish

2. Germans, Goths, Vandals

3. Angles, Saxons, jutes, Frisians

18. What is true about Germanic languages? Germanic became different from the other Indo-European language groups in seven main ways:

1. Germanic languages thus have three types of verbs, weak, strong and unregular.

2. Germanic languages have two types of verbs, weak (regular) and strong (irregular).

3. Germanic languages thus have four types of verbs, weak, regular, strong and irregular.

19. What is "umlaut"?

1. vowel gradation;

2. mutation of root vowels

3. reduplication of unstressed syllables;

20. What words mentioned in the cartoon that we watched in class DIDN NOT come from Christians?

1. table

2. bishop

3. font

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Протокол № 3 от «02» ноября 2017 года

Составитель ________________ Бридко Т.В.

(подпись) (фамилия и инициалы)

Руководитель ОПОП ________________ Полховская Е.В.

(подпись) (фамилия и инициалы)

«______» ___________________________ 20 г.

МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ И НАУКИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

ФГАОУ ВО «КФУ ИМ. В.И. ВЕРНАДСКОГО»

Таврическая академия (структурное подразделение)

Институт иностранной филологии

Направление подготовки 45.03.01 «Филология»

профиль Английский язык и литература

Дисциплина История основного иностранного языка (английского)

АТТЕСТАЦИОННЫЙ БИЛЕТ №17

Choose the correct answer:

1. King Alfred was famous for:

a) Making a treaty with Normans

b) Making the Anglo-Saxons speak English

c) Defending the South of England against the Danes

2. The first English Parliament appeared in:

1. 1121

2. 1223

3. 13^th century

3. The first King after the Norman Conquest whose native tongue was English was:

1. King Henry I

2. King Henry IV

3. King Alfred the Great

4. What words mentioned in the cartoon that we watched in class DIDN NOT come from Christians?

1. table

2. bishop

3. font

5. What words mentioned in the movie DIDN NOT come from Vikings?

1. thrust

2. please

3. die

6. What day of the week was named in honor of Anglo-Saxon gods?

1. Monday

2. Friday

3. Sunday

7. The suffix -linʒ was used to :

1. show that something was very ugly

2. show that something was very beautiful

3. show that something was very dear

8. The suffix -ness/nis was used to :

1. build up an adjective from a noun

2. build up a noun from an adjective

3. build up a noun from an adverb

9. In OE new words appeared as a result of

1. root mutation

2. word derivation

3. vowel composition

10. The suffix -dom was used to :

1. build up nouns that show guarantee

2. build up nouns that show quantity

3. build up nouns that show quality

11. What is wrong? The Old English vocabulary consisted of:

1. Common Indo-European Words

2. Common Icelandic Words

3. Anglo-Saxon Words

12. What words mentioned in the movie DIDN NOT come from Anglo-Saxons?

1. dog

2. house

3. wife

13. Borrowings in OE were mainly from:

1. Saxon

2. Celtic

3. Latin

14. Chose what is not correct. The grammatical means that the English language used were primarily: