Презентация по английскому языку "Календарь"

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The main aim:  DISCOVER SOME OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

The Steps: do some internet research on English vocabulary

Adapt the material for listeners Illustrate the material

Old English names of the month

The Latin names of the month

January

There was a time when wolves roamed the island. January was called the month of wolves

January is the Latin name

Janus was the Roman God of Beginnings and Endings and has two faces: on the front and on the back of the head.

English language is

“ Roman-Latin- Saxon-Danish-Norman English”

Daniel Defoe

The main aim: DISCOVER

SOME OF THE MYSTERIES

OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

• The Steps: do some internet research on English vocabulary
• Adapt the material for listeners
• Illustrate the material
• Old English names of the month
• The Latin names of the month

Calendarium

• The record - book was called calends

January

There was a time when wolves roamed the island. January was called the month of wolves

January i s the Latin name

• Janus was the Roman God of Beginnings and Endings and has two faces: on the front and on the back of the head.

February

• Kale is a kind of

cabbage.

It was the month when the cabbage

begins to grow

February

Februa – purification.

It was a month when ancient

Romans had a festival of purification

March

March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb

March

Mars was a Roman God of war

March was the earliest warm time

of the year when

the Romans can start the war

April

1.The Latin name for the

month was Aprilis

2.The Latin element apero-

second

3.After an Etruscan Goddess

who was called Apriu

The most spread one is a pretty story

From the Latin word

aperire - to open

April

The English called

April Easter

The month of the

religious festivals

which is usually

celebrated in

this month

May

May is named for the

Roman Goddess

Maia.

She was Goddess

of growth and increas e

May brings flocks of pretty lambs

Skipping by their fleecy dams

May

The English called

this month

Thrimilk-

Marry is a month of May, and you surely rue the day

June

The Roman festival

of Juno,

Goddess of the moon,

was celebrated on the first day of

this month

JULY

is a month

of Julius Caesar

July

The English called July meadow month because meadows are in

bloom in July

August

was named

in honour

of the Roman

Emperor

Augustus

August

The Old English name for August was

weed which meant

vegetation in general

SEPTEMBER- seventh

October - eighth

November - ninth

December - tenth

It is clear now what Daniel Defoe meant when he called English a hybrid, “ Roman-Saxon-Danish- Norman English”

Now you are to discover one of the mysteries of the English vocabulary

Thanks for attention!

THE PROJECT WAS MADE BY

ISKANDAROVA NAIBA

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