за 1. How many periods does the English language history
include?
2. How long does Old English period last?
3. What branch of Indo-European languages does Old
English belong to?
4. What branch of Indo-European languages does Middle
English belong to?
5. What phenomena did result in forming diphthongs?
6. What happened to all unstressed vowels in middle
English?
7. Into what did Old English [æ] change?
8. What dialect did form the English national language?
9. How old is the English language?
10. Who were the earliest inhabitans of Britain?

11. The period till the … century is called unwritten
period?
12. The period from the 12-th till the 15-th century is
called ….?
13. In what English was “The Canterbury Tales” by
Chaucer written?
14. The group of irregular verbs is the group of … verbs of
Old English language.
15. To what branch of Indo-European family of languages
does Modern English belong to?
16. The borrowings of Middle English period mainly
include the borrowings from … language.
17. Old English alphabet consisted of … .
18. The group of irregular verbs is the group of … verbs of
Old English language.
19. How many languages were there in Britain at the
beginning of Middle English period?
20. Weak verbs of Old English period formed their main
forms by means of … ?
21. The language of New English period is ….?
22. Another name for nouns of Strong Declension was …
Declension.
23. The result of Great Vowel Shift was that long sound
[e:] changed into … ?
a) [i:] c) [u:]
b) [ei] d) [ai]

24. The system of flexions was developed in … English
period.
a) Middle c) New
b) Old d) modern
25. Strong verbs of Old English period formed their
main forms by means of … ?