The Anglo-Saxons

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Are these sentences True or False?

• The English language begins with a phrase 'Up yours, Caesar', which is a very rude phrase and usually goes together with a rude gesture.
• After Germans leave Britain, a lot of Roman tribes start flooding in.
• Tribes like the Angles and the Saxons gave the term Anglo-Saxons.
• The Romans left some very straight roads behind but not much of their Latin language.
• The Anglo-Saxon vocab was very useful, as they were mainly words for simple everyday things like 'house', 'woman', 'loaf' and 'wolf'.
• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named in honour of Anglo-Saxon gods.
• Christianity was a hit with the locals and made them much happy to take funky new words from Latin like 'drag', 'ransack' and  'thrust'.
• Along came the Vikings with their action-men words like 'martyr', 'bishop', ‘'font'.' and 'die'.
• Vikings may have raped and pillaged but they were also into 'give' and 'take'.
• Vikings gave English around 3,000 words.
• The phrase ‘watch out for that man with an enormous axe' didn’t really come from the Vikings.

Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Read the text and answer the questions:

• What did the Romans do in Britain?
• Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?
• What were the names of the individual tribes that we call ‘Anglo-Saxons’?

Read about Growing up in an Anglo-Saxons’ village Girls, Boys, Toys and games, Marriage and answer the questions:

Girls

• Who were more important for Anglo-Saxons girls or boys?
• What kind of work did Anglo-Saxon girls do?
• Did all the girls learn reading and writing?
• What was the youngest marriage age for girls?
• What did some girls choose to be if they didn’t want to get married?

Boys

• What skills did Anglo-Saxon  boys learn?
• Did all boys learn reading and writing?
• How did Anglo-Saxon boys learn reading and writing?
• Why did some boys go to live in monasteries?

Marriage

• Did women often marry men of higher rank?
• Were people allowed to marry whom they wanted?
• Was the family important for Anglo-Saxons?
• Who would look after a woman if her husband died?
• What possessions would a rich Anglo-Saxon woman have?
• Toys and Games
• What kind of toys did the Anglo-Saxons have?
• What kind of games did they play?
• What can we learn from finds in graves and other archeological sites? 

Facts: Check your answers here

• What did the Anglo Saxon’s wear?
• What did it protect them from?
• What did the hunters use? Why?
• What did the archeologist find? What were they used for?
• What was precious? Why?
• What was the small glass pottery balls used for?
• What did Husband give their brides?
• What job did a woman have?
• What illnesses did the Anglo Saxons suffer?
• Why did Caedmon become a monk?

Describe each picture: Check answers here in photos

What do you think the objects are?

What is happening in this picture?

What is the object in this picture? Can you guess who this is?

Who are the people in this picture? What do you think they are doing?


What do you think the objects are? What are they used for?

What are these people doing? What are they wearing?


What is happening in this picture? Where are they?


What is happening in this picture? Why do you think this picture is taken?


Can you guess where this picture was taken? What do you think the old building was?

Do the Quiz Growing Up

Play the Game: Hild and the village feast and answer the question:
What objects did Hild collect to go to the feast?

Make a presentation in Prezi or Glogster about a day in the life of an Anglo-Saxon boy or girl. What would you have liked most about their way of life? Or hated?

Learn the words Anglo-Saxons