Bliss English Club

Hi Blissers,
Last Saturday, Annie gave us an abundant of the history of English language.

It started from the history of England, Old English, Middle English, then Modern English.

AD43, Romans invaded England and Britain becomes part of the Roman Empire.
The invasion affected Britain's language, culture , geography and architecture.
The old English is around AD450 -1100 and Angle, Saxon and Jute (the Anglo-Saxons) invaded.
Several written works have survived from the old English period.
The most famous is a heroic epic poem called "Beowulf". It is the oldest known English poem.

Modern English is from around 1500AD to the present.
Modern English developed after William Caxton established his printing press at Westminster Abbey in 1476.
By the time of Shakespear's writings (1592-1616), the language had become clearly recognizable as Modern English.
There were three big developments in the world at the beginning of Modern English period: the Renaissance,
the Industrial Revolution, and the British Colonialism.It was during the English Renaissance that most of the words from Greek and Latin entered English.
Annie also introduced some Victorian poetry to us.
"Grow old with me!The best is yet to be."
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
In addition, do you know how English flag makes?
When Scotland, England and Ireland united to United Kingdom of Great Britain,
they combined their flags to become English flag.

The participants were Ellen, Kevin, Reyes, Joe, Sanli, Selina, Yvonne, Naihsin, Tom, Millie and Daniel.

The meeting's picture link is HERE.

By the way, on 7/15, some blissers went to watch exhibition in the morning and went to Jeff's KTV room singing songs in the afternoon.

The picture link is Here.

16:40-17:00 Wrap Up and A Gift for the participants

Daniel