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each group)Ask the students to finish a timeline of the development of English by reading the text carefully in group. Timeline of the development of EnglishTime Changes that happenedAD 4501150The English was spoken in ______.It was _____more on ______ than the English we speak at present.AD 8001150The people who_____England spoke first ______and later_____, English became less like _____.By the 1600s Shakespeare was able to _____________a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620Some British settlers moved to ___________.In the 18th centurySome British people were taken to _________.By the 19th centurySamuel Johnson wrote his __________.Noah Webster wrote The American Dictionary of English Language and gave a separate ___________to American English spelling17651947English was spoken in ______ as well as in Africa and Asia. It became the language for _______________ and education in India.nowEnglish is also spoken in ______________, ____________,