Middle English

KEYTERMS 1. A set of keyterms necessary for the study of Middle English.
TRANSCRIPTION 2. An exercise in pdf format based on a Middle English translation of the Tower of Babel passage.
VOWEL CHART 3. An interactive drag-and-drop exercise that asks you to place the vowels of Middle English on a diagram of the mouth.
BASIC PRONUNCIATION AND GRAMMAR 4. Exercises from the online tutorial METRO for learning Middle English. Do the activities indicated under the headings "Listening and Speaking" and "Grammar" for Chaucer only.
CONSONANTS 5. This lesson includes information on several matters related to Middle English consonants. It includes two questions for you to answer.
MORE PRONUNCIATION 6. An audio player that allows you to read the fourteenth Century prose Brut while listening to it being read in period pronunciation.
LENGTHENING AND SHORTENING 7. Download this pdf exercise on the lengthening and shortening of certain vowels in Middle English.
SYNTAX 8. An exercise in pdf format on Middle English syntax using the Middle English Tower of Babel passage.
SYNTAX 2 9 Return to the METRO site for Chaucer and complete the Syntax exercises there. 
VERB ENDINGS 10. This exercise asks you to conjugate two verbs from the Wycliffite Tower of Babel passage, and to answer some questions about those verbs.
DIALECT MAP 11. Three maps of the geography of Middle English dialects. Print these out, study them,  and complete the dialect identification activity using them and your textbook. Remember to bring the maps to lecture and section.

Note: for any exercise that asks you to write out something, bring your written work to section.