where is it from???

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Following the economic, political, military, scientific, cultural, and colonial influence of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from the 18th century, via the British Empire, and of the United States since the mid-20th century it has been widely dispersed around the world, become the leading language of international discourse, and has acquired use as lingua franca in many regions. It is widely learned as a second language and used as an official language of the European Union and many Commonwealth countries, as well as in many world organizations. It is the third most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.
Historically, English originated from the fusion of languages and dialects, now collectively termed Old English, which were brought to the eastern coast of Great Britain by Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) settlers by the 5th century – with the word English being derived from the name of the Angles. A significant number of English words are constructed based on roots from Latin, because Latin in some form was the lingua franca of the Christian Church and of European intellectual life. The language was further influenced by the Old Norse language due to Viking invasions in the 8th and 9th centuries.
The Norman conquest of England in the 11th century gave rise to heavy borrowings from Norman-French, and vocabulary and spelling conventions began to give the superficial appearance of a close relationship with Romance languages to what had now become Middle English. The Great Vowel Shift that began in the south of England in the 15th century is one of the historical events that mark the emergence of Modern English from Middle English.
Owing to the significant assimilation of various European languages throughout history, modern English contains a very large vocabulary. The Oxford English Dictionary lists over 250,000 distinct words, not including many technical or slang terms, or words that belong to multiple word classes.

SPM 2010 English Techniques

                            

                            

Thats not music..!! its just noise..

Place: You are on a bus going to work
Time: 8.15am
Characters: You and a teenager
Situation: You are on a crowded bus on the way to work. You have to stand because
the bus is full. A teenager starts playing loud rap music from the speaker on
their mobile phone, to impress their cool friends. Some people on the bus find
this annoying
Scenes: i) You ask the teenager to turn the music down or off. They refuse
ii) You ask the bus driver to talk to the teenager about the music and how it is
disturbing you and the other paying passengers. The driver is afraid of the
teenagers and says that he can’t hear the music
iii) You take matters into your own hands and confront the teenager again.
You take the phone and the teenager gets very angry
If there are three people in the group the third character could be:
a) The bus driver
b) One of the teenager’s cool friends
c) An off-duty bouncer from a local nightclub who gets involved


post us a reply comment on what you will do...

English Month 2010 Opening Ceremony

Students following the ceremony with great interest

Students listening attentively to the speeches given

Teachers of SMKA Sultan Azlan Shah

Ust Arifine giving a speech on the importance of the English language 

Syakir Azizi, ELS President giving a speech

Teachers of SMKA Sultan Azlan Shah

Ust. Arifine opening English Month 2010

what will you do????

1. “You did that on purpose!”

Place: Your cousin’s wedding

Time: 2.35pm

 Characters: You and the bride-to-be

Situation: With the wedding due to start at 3pm you are talking to your cousin’s bride-tobe,
trying to calm her down because she is very nervous. She was your
girlfriend ten years ago in high school but you are over her now

Scenes: i) The bride makes you laugh and you accidentally spill your glass of red wine
all over her dress

ii) You try to clean up the dress. The bride-to-be is in tears and very angry.
She accuses you of being jealous that she is getting married to your cousin
and says that you ruined her dress on purpose

iii) After a moment, you and the bride-to-be realise that you are still madly in
love with each other. Will the wedding be cancelled?
If there are three people in the group the third character could be:
a) Your cousin
b) The mother of the bride-to-be

Just Jokes

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other," Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?" "Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great." "That's great! And what was the name of the clinic?" Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic?"

A New Beginning

All praises to ALLAH, the English Language Society (ELS) of SMKA Sultan Azlan Shah has finally managed to create a blog! Yippie!! Afterwards, the current members of ELS will be the ones who'll write new posts as I'm only told to create it, not to manage it. Nevertheless, as the one responsible for the birth of this blog, I rightfully claimed the right to write the first post. To all members of ELS, hopefully you guys'll scribble interesting posts to further intoxicate students' interest to read it. You guys have my best wishes. Peace be upon ya'll.