If you teach or want to teach English, if you want to study the language not only for the sake of chit-chatting abroad, you have to be savvy in its history. The more you know about its development, the better you understand some complicated and even unexplainable language phenomena you meet while studying. This video is not too long for those who do not like extended lectures, of course it takes more than Vine videos, but some things are inevitable when you get educated. It possesses the BBC quality - their documentaries are almost always spot-on. It provides a lot of facts and you hear several varieties of English.
Teachers may watch it with students of Intermediate and higher levels and ask them to note down the chronology and important facts in the development of English. It may as well be a start for a series of seminars or a big project in Language History.Students may watch this video for self-education and find a lot of things for further research. They also can watch it with automatic subtitle on Youtube and compare what they see with what they hear (it concerns not only this certain video, it is often a captivating activity which holds your attention every second of the video). And don't forget to write out some new vocabulary which you feel you are going to use in your speech.
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