Curated OER
Fun with Surnames: Fun Trivia Quiz
Covering a unit of surnames, linguistics or the history of the English language? Then this might be a great pre-test or sponge activity for you. Test learners' knowledge of how and where certain surnames originated. As with all Fun...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Anglo Saxon & Old English
A selected bibliography for primary and secondary materials, including facsimile texts in Old English, translations into modern English, and scholarship.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: An Introduction to Middle English [Doc]
This essay shows how English has changed over the past 1000 years, and introduces students to reading Middle English for themselves.
Harvard University
The Harvard Chaucer Page: The Great Vowel Shift
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides examples showing the difference between Chaucer's language and our own. The name of the site is the Great Vowel Shift and the text provided is medium in length, with several examples...