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19.09.2022 23:42 •  Английский язык

Прочитайте тексты и установите соответствие между текстами a-g и заголовками 1-8. запишите свои ответы в таблицу. используйте каждую цифру только один раз. в есть один лишний заголовок. 1. where the name came from 2. who were the britons? 3. customs of the britons 4. the birth of other languages 5. a confusing fact 6. moving south 7. unwelcome strangers 8. arrival of a new language a. the britons were early inhabitants of the island of great britain. they lived in the area that is now known as england, and also in parts of southern scotland. they are believed to have come originally from a region of northern france. they lived in great britain up until the time that the anglo-saxons came from germany in the 5th century. b. the earliest history of the britons was written by a greek man named pytheas, who lived in a greek colony in southern france. pytheas visited the british isles, including ireland, in 330 вс. he called the islands 'hai brettaniai', meaning the 'brittanic isles'. he called the people there 'prettanoi', which led to the terms 'briton and 'british'. c. the britons controlled most of england and southern scotland for several centuries. this began to change as the roman empire spread north. during the 1st century ad, the romans entered the region by force. the britons tried to push them back, but realised that the romans were too powerful. they had to accept that the romans were there to stay. d. the britons lived under roman rule from the 1st century ad until the 4th century. around that time rome became much weaker, and roman soldiers left britain. germanic tribes from europe, the anglo-saxons, soon started to arrive in the east of england. they brought their language with them, which helped form the english language used in the uk today. e. after the anglo-saxons arrived, the britons began to split up and form smaller tribes, which eventually had their own separate customs and languages. by the 11th century, there were the cornish, welsh, and breton tribes which spoke cornish, welsh and breton. these separate languages are still used by numbers of people today. f. one of the tribes that formed after the britons began to divide was the bretons. these people left great britain for an area of france now known as brittany. this region is just over 200 kilometres south of the british isles. the breton language still exists in the region, although most bretons speak french. brittany is sometimes called 'little britain, in contrast to great britain. g. the term 'british' can apply to the british of today and also to the ancient britons, but in different ways. one example is with language: the britons spoke the british language, a language completely different from english. this is a bit difficult to understand, because today some people commonly use the terms 'british' and 'english' to mean similar things.