[Resumo] O inglés, que pasa por ser a lingua franca internacional na actualidade, padeceu na Idade
Media unha relación de sometemento a respecto do francés, como acontece na actualidade
na Galiza entre o galego e o español; outrosí, o seu sistema fonético e fonolóxico presenta
notorias diferenzas (mais tamén algunha relativa similutude) co noso idioma. E pensamos
que ambos os aspectos, o histórico e o fonético, poden ser aproveitados nas salas de ensino,
co que, na nosa opinión, o alumnado resultaría beneficiado.[Abstract] English, which is recognised as the world´s most widely used, most important language and
the international lingua franca, was subordinated to French across the Middle Ages, just
the same as it happens in Galicia today between Galician and Spanish. In the same way its
phonetic and phonological system shows great differences and also some similarities with
our language. We consider that both, the phonetic and the historical aspect, could be developed
and used in the classrooms so that the students would profit from that
