Sentences with phrase «older english»

A kindergarten curriculum for older English language learners just isn't the best choice.

Occasionally I test an older English language learner who appears to not have developed PA, but when someone who is fluent in the child's language asks that a word be segmented in the home - rooted language, the child proves his or her competence in PA..

For example, although older English language learners may be able to read words in English at a 1st grade level, they may not be able to comprehend these words as well as a 1st grade native English speaker does.

It's aimed at a similar audience to the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and it has a very strong cast of older English actors.

In a press conference held on Sunday morning in Older English Hotel, he said that indications already showed that the commission was planning to announce an APGA governor, the reason it went ahead to schedule election in 65 wards in Obosi which is his stronghold on a day of worship.

In his last discourse to his disciples, according to St John's gospel, Jesus promised that after his death, he would send them the Paraclete, a word variously translated a «counsellor», or in older English a «comforter» or «strengthener» or «advocate» to be with them.

York comes from Old English Eoforwic, earlier Eborakon, an ancient Celtic name probably meaning «Yew - Tree Estate.»

Southampton was known in Old English as Hamtun, meaning «village - town.»

The surname Washington means «estate of a man named Wassa» in Old English.

Some believe that chock comes from the Old English word for cheek.

In contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouses.

In Old English, «morrow» meant «morning,» so to - morrow meant towards the new day (the next day).

We're still reading in Latin and old English!

The old english teacher wasn't just having you read that book because it was a good farm story.

Jason, Remember when some old english teacher made you read Animal Farm by George Orwell?

Christian missionaries lumped all of these people together under the umbrella term «pagan,» said Philip Shaw, who researches early Germanic languages and Old English at Leicester University in the U.K..

Old English n Modern English are very different.

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

When the Americanism of words came into being the y in a lot of old english words was dropped and an I replaced the y. Also a lot of words were combined including holy day and became holiday.

And in Virginia you can still hear the old English as though the ancestors of the founding fathers kept some of the tongue that once debated slavery.

I'm not as concerned about someone ending their prayer «in Jesus name» as I am to hear people praying in Old English, using «thou,»» thy» or «thine» to use a couple of common ones.

Another scholar of Old English literature, C. L. Wrenn, said that meeting Williams made you realize why inquisitors thought they had the right to burn people.

«One of the oldest aphorisms in English, this adage was first recorded in the Old English Homilies: «Hwa is thet mei thet hors wettrien the him self nule drinken.»

Our old English «flesh» has become a theological word, but it still means «meat».

The venerable Durham Cathedral in England houses a manuscript containing a collection of eleventh - century Old English proverbs known as the Durham Proverbs.

Laughing, No tongues» it was plain old English and I was not thinking about the words coming out they were words that seem to have come from a deeper place another plane so to speak.

Like my old English college professor used to say: when in doubt, go back to the text.

The word «hell» is actually derived from an old English word that means to «conceal».

So the early church announced a season of Lent, from the old English word lenten, meaning «spring» — not only a reference to the season before Easter, but also an invitation to a springtime for the soul.

The Rees - Mogg filibuster is a colorful cultural event that often includes the recitation of poetry, English folk tales, English history, axioms of old English Common Law, and various Latin dicta.

A 10 - year - old English boy will play the voice of God in the new biblically - inspired epic Exodus: Gods... More

The word gospel is just an old English word for a very ordinary phrase; good news (as opposed to bad news).

Sure: Old English byrig, mulberry: Modern English berry.

There was an old English description of the collapse of all order, hope, and mercy during the reign of King Stephen: «Seven long years when God and his Angels slept.»

And belief» specifically belief in the gospel, belief in the «good news,» because that's what the Old English word «god - spell» means» gives us the ability to hope that despite all our failures, despite our insignificance and sins, the greatness of God's love can reach down and redeem even us.

Scolars don't agree on meanings of words in old english from 500 years ago.

Gospel is Old English and Germanic for «gud spel» or «good story, good news.»

On this wave of inspiration, Cædmon began to Christianize the Old English poetic tradition in keeping with the Icelandic view of poetry as the capacity to peer into the runes and find the meaning of the world.

The influence of Calvin, Constantine, Augustine and others on what we do, say and believe including old English translations of the bible have been masked by the mists of time.

Would Jesus talk in Old English or up - to - date American?

And as for the word «Gospel,» it is not the best translation either, but is a hybrid of Old English and German and means «good story» or «good message.»

It comes from the Old English «Goode,» a shorter form.

I think the» «to be» omission» to be slightly - slangish in an old english way, but not necessarily grammatically incorrect, Tom.

The ideas and examples contained in Dennis Freeborn's From Old English to Standard English (Freeborn 1992) and the associated website, for example, can be adapted in an age - appropriate way to show how the English language (including its spelling and punctuation) has changed over time.

The complete absence of Old English, and the almost complete absence of Middle English (Catholic) classics, reveals a stunning neglect of the English literary heritage rather than a statutory protection of it.

the hebrew of genesis is a lot like old english in that it had a small vocabulary.

The same rule is found in english... for example, «run» is one of the words that go back to old english.

Scotland, whose religion, laws, customs, and traditions have always been more European than English, and which spent most of the Middle Ages allying with France against the old English enemy, did not join in.

A solution had to be found, but it would have to come from sources other than the old English order [that is, the «ancient realm or the Anglican tradition»] The deep - seated tensions of early seventeenth - century English society had to be solved by some rather novel rearrangements of political and legal institutions.

In Old English it was mycg, and it goes back to an Indo - European root, * mu -, which also gave us mosquito and, by a circuitous route, musket.