Lesson Plan 1 Course title: English as an International Language (Culture)

871 “DomesdayBook” compiled

1066 London becomes de facto capital of England

C 800 The oldest surviving manuscripts in Middle English date from this period

Group C

1209 Oxford University established

1362 Cambridge University established

C 1370 The Black Death kills one third of the British population

1385 The Statute of Pleading replaces French with English as the language of law

1399 English is used in English Parliament for the first time

1476 William Langland writes “Piers Plowman”

1526 John Wycliffe publishes his English translation of “The Bible”

1167 English replaces Latin as main language in schools (except Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)

1349-50 Chaucer begins “The Canterbury Tales”

1362 Henry IV becomes first English-speaking monarch since before the Conquest

C 1384 The Great Vowel Shift begins

C 1388 William Caxton establishes the first English printing press

C 1450 Start of English Renaissance

C 1500 William Tyndale prints his English translation of the New Testament of “The Bible”

1539 “TheGreatBible” published