VI . Module Control Work and its assessment

Number of Tasks

Materials under Control

Points

General characteristics of English as a Germanic language (one question)

1

The period of Anglo-Saxon settlement on the British Isles (one question)

1

Old English alphabet: pronunciation of different letters (six words)

6

Verner's Law, Grimm's Law (four pairs of words)

4

Old English processes: back mutation; i – umlaut; palatal diphthongization; breaking; contraction; splitting of ā (eight pairs of words)

8

Old English processes: the sources of OE diphthongs – reflexing of CG breaking, palatal diphthongization (three pairs of words)

3

Old English Grammar: main form-building means (one question)

1

Grammatical markers of noun declensions (one question)

1

Main endings of noun declensions (one question)

1

Definition of noun declensions by the paradigm (two paradigms)

2

a) Stating the form of the underlined noun in the sentence (sentences are chosen from И.П. Иванова и др. "Практикум по истории английского языка". – М., 1985) (three words).

b) Choosing the correct variant of translation of the OE sentence into Mod. E.

3

1

General characteristics of OE adjectives: right-wrong answers to the suggested statements (two statements)

2

General characteristics of OE pronouns: case (one question)

1

Morphological classes of OE verbs: the principles on which they are distinguished (one question)

1

Classes of weak verbs in OE: specific features of the class and subclass (one question)

1

Phonetic processes within the forms of verbs (three words)

3

Grammatical features of OE verbs (basic forms, tense-forms, endings) (one answer for every task)

4

a) Stating the paradigmatic form of the verb (three underlined verbs in the sentence) – sentences are chosen from И.П. Иванова и др. Практикум по истории английского языка. – М., 1985.

b) Choosing the correct variant of translation.

3

1

The Scandinavian Invasion; dating of the main historical events (one question)

1

The Scandinavian Invasion: specific features of the period (one question)

1

Stating the origin of Mod. E. words as being borrowed from French or Scandinavian (six words)

6

Specific meanings of suffixes in the geographical names of Scandinavian origin (one suffix)

1

Stating which process took place in ME: lengthening or shortening and in which position (three pairs of words)

3

Stating the phonetic process in ME: assibilation vocalization of the consonant, loss of the consonant (four pairs of words)

4

Stating the phonetic process which took place within the system of vowels in ME: monophthongization of the diphthongs, dialect changes, formation of new diphthongs (three pair of words)

3

ME nouns: historical (old) and analogical (new) endings of nouns (four pairs of words)

4

Changes within the system of noun declensions in ME (right-wrong reactions to a question)

1

Changes within the system of pronouns in ME (right-wrong reactions to a question)

1

Changes within the system of adjectives in ME (right-wrong reactions to a question)

1

ME verbs: historical and analogical endings (four pairs of words)

4

Changes within the system of the Verb in ME (right-wrong reactions to the statements)

1

Changes within the system of the Verb in ME (right-wrong reactions to the statements)

1

Stating the kind of the analytical form taken from “The Canterbury Tales” by G. Chaucer. The examples are chosen from И.П. Иванова и др. Практикум по истории английского языка. М., 1985 (four extracts)

4

Phonetic process within the system of vowels in ME: Great Vowel Shift; vocalization of r and formation of a new diphthong (four pairs of words)

4

Phonetic changes in NE: Great Vowel Shift; their changes (six pairs of words)

6

Phonetic changes within the system of consonants in NE: simplification of some clusters; voicing of fricatives; merging of clusters into new sibilants and affricates (three pairs of words)

3