We are the crazy students of B2 level in Maria Markaki school. We live in Iraklion, Crete, Greece. We enjoy blogging because we practise for the FCE and ECCE exams in a fun way.
Saturday, January 26, 2019
The History of English
The English language spoken today has evolved over a period of approximately 1500 years, or better since the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes on the shores of England around the 5th century.
They brought with them various Germanic languages that would gradually evolve into the English we speak today.
During those 1500 years, the English language has added or ‘borrowed’ words from many other languages to create a rich, complex and sophisticated language. In some cases, an existing English word has been replaced with one from a different language, in other cases the new word has been added as a variation or alternative to the English original.
English is now a language full of ‘loan words’.
https://www.sutori.com/story/the-history-of-english
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Revising writing
Please read and reflect on these posts:
1) https://markaki-b2.blogspot.com/2017/10/webinar-on-ecce-writing-simplified.html
2) https://markaki-b2.blogspot.com/2017/10/ecce-writing-corrected-letters-and.html
1) https://markaki-b2.blogspot.com/2017/10/webinar-on-ecce-writing-simplified.html
2) https://markaki-b2.blogspot.com/2017/10/ecce-writing-corrected-letters-and.html
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