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1. What are the major regional accents of British broadcast news outlets?
2. Why are social accents be observed in British broadcast news outlets?
Practical Tasks
Task 1. Watch Video 3.1 (Unit 3), Video 5.1 (Unit 5), Video 10.5 (Unit 10), Video 11.2 and Video 11.3 (Unit 11), Video 12.7 (Unit 12), Video 13.1 (Unit 13), and say what regional British accent you hear in the listed clips.
Task 2. Folder ACCENTS in Unit 14 contains two subfolders: Accents Phonology and What_Accent.
The first subfolder reflects phonetic features of British English regional accents and several social accents1. It also contains accent samples of Australian English, Canadian English and New Zealand English. Each accent is represented by a separate subfolder (Scottish, Welsh, Hiberno and Ulster, UK_Northern, Social, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand).
Watch the files in each subfolder to get acquainted with the phonology of the accents in question. Pay special attention to British Regional accents.
Task 3. Watch Video_posh_accent (Folder ACCENTS) to get its idea. Does it seem strange to you?
What are well-educated people doing to disguise their RP accent? How is this accent called otherwise?
Task 4. Do you know what the following terms mean?
A (summer) break diploma to be legally required curriculum
Task 5. Watch Video 14.1 and Video 14.2 leads. Compare the content of the leads paying attention to the way each clip:
A) reports on the opening of a school year;
B) reveals the variety of new subjects to be taught in schools across England.
Task 6. Watch Video 14.1 in full. Sum up its idea in two sentences.
Task 7. Watch Video 14.1 again to restore the missing words and word combinations.
To school
2. … government’s new …1-2…
3. It will allow struggling teenagers …1-2…
4. … and those who excelled, …1-2…
5. Edd Balls is (post?) …
6. Sean Fenton is (post?) …
7. But it will be a particular …
8. … that they will …1-2…
9. …1… financial skills like …2… …3… …4… and …5…
10) … of being able to …1-3… in the kitchen.
11) … are described as …1… …2… world languages…
12) in an effort to …1-2…
13) If employers do really …1-3…
14) to encourage up to 90 per cent of students …1-4…
What is the American equivalent of the term headmaster?
Task 8. Identify some grammatical structures used in Video 14.1. The sentences in question open and end up with the following words.
1. Teenagers … diploma courses.
Cookery.
3. A new school … with it.
4. One which the government … stretched.
5. Education Secretary … agree.
6. “The introduction of … common sense”.
7. But there’s concern … little.
Task 9. Make a list of the following groups of lexical units you came across in Video 14.1 (e.g. terms; phrasal verbs; intensifying words; clichés).
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