Accents

Non-native speaker English accents

1. What are the differences between the sounds of English and the sounds of your first language? 

2. Does any particular sound cause problems for you?

3. What sounds in your first language might cause problems for non-native speakers? 

An accent can be an asset

Discuss:

1. Can you do Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice?

2. What kind of accent does he have?

3. Which Hollywood movies is he in?

Why does Arnold say the following things?

1. "I should have afterwards gotten my money back" - why does everyone laugh when he says this?

2. "3,333 and 1/3"

3. "after 5000 years"

4. "a fine wine grows on a vine"

5. "the sink is made out of zinc"

6. "all  the geniuses were saying that this was an obstacle for me"

7. "it became an asset"

8. "if we couldn't hatched Schwarzenegger we would have had to build one"

9. "Schwarzenegger talks like a machine"

10. "I want your clothes, your boots and your zinc"

 Watch:

One Woman, 17 British Accents

1. RP 

2. Heightened RP
3. London
4. East Anglia
5. West Country Cornwall
6. Southern Welsh
7. Northern welsh
8. West midlands,
9. Scouse (Liverpool)
10. Lancashire
11. Yorkshire
12. Geordie
13. Edinburgh
14. Glasgow
15. Scottish Highlands
16. Northern Ireland -
17. Southern Ireland, Dublin

 

 

recognisable outside of Britain

flat, boggy

the Beatles

Downstairs of Downton Abbey

flatter than Lancashire, cut off a lot of words

Billy Eliot

soft and a little snooty

much thicker - cut off a lot words

middle class BBC
Downton Abbey

rounder, Sam Gamgee
piratey

song-songy

breathier, thicker

Birmingham – nasal

not actually in Britain, a lot of assonance

all about the vowels, Liam Neeson

Robert Burns

Ways to describe and identify different British accents


____  - middle class BBC
Heightened ____ - upstairs cast of Downton Abbey
L_____ - recognisable outside of Britain
East Anglia - _____, boggy
West Country - rounder, ____ Gamgee
Cornwall - "p______y"
Southern Welsh - s___-s_____y
Northern _____ - b____thier, thicker
West midlands, Birmingham - n____l
Scouse (the city of L_______l) - the Beatles
Lancashire - D______s cast of Downtown Abbey
Yorkshire - _____er than Lancashire, ___ off a lot of words
Geordie - _____ Eliot
Edinburgh - soft and a little _____ty
Glasgow - much ______er - ____ off a lot words
Scottish ____lands - Robert Burns
Northern Ireland - all about the ______, Liam Neeson
Southern Ireland, City of D_____ - not actually in Britain, a lot of assonance







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RP  - middle class BBC
Heightened RP - Downton Abbey
London - recognisable outside of Britain
East Anglia - flat, boggy
West Country - rounder, Sam Gamgee
Cornwall - piratey
Southern Welsh - song-songy
Northern welsh - breathier, thicker
West midlands, Birmingham - nasal
Scouse (Liverpool) - the Beatles
Lancashire - Downstairs of Downtown Abbey
Yorkshire - flatter than Lancashire, cut off a lot of words
Geordie - Billy Eliot
Edinburgh - soft and a little snooty
Glasgow - much thicker - cut off a lot words
Scottish Highlands - Robert Burns
Northern Ireland - all about the vowels, Liam Neeson
Southern Ireland, Dublin - not actually in Britain, a lot of assonance