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1. What are the major regional accents of British broadcast discourse?
2. What is the phonology of the major British regional accents?
3. Why do social accents can be observed in British broadcast discourse?
Practical Tasks
Task 1. Watch Video 25 (Unit 11), Video 30 and Video 33 (Unit 12), Video 37 (Unit13), Video 39 (Unit 14), listen to Audio Track 15 (Unit 14) and say what regional British accent you hear in those television and radio reports.
Task 2. Folder ACCENTS (Unit 15) contains two subfolders: Accents Phonology and What_Accent.
The first subfolder reflects phonetic features of the British regional accents, several social accents1, as well as Australian, Canadian and New Zealand accents. Each accent is represented by a subfolder (Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Northern, Social, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand). Watch two files from each subfolder to get to know the phonology of the accents in question.
Task 3. Do you know what the following terms mean?
A (summer) break diploma to be legally required curriculum
Task 4. Watch Video 45 and Video 46 leads and transcribe them. Compare the contents of each lead and the way each video: a) reports opening of a school year; b) reports on the variety of new subjects to be taught in school in England. Write them down into slots below.
Video 45 lead major information points:
1) …
2) …
Video 46 lead major information points:
1) …
2) …
Task 5. Watch Video 45 in full. Summarise (recapitulate) its idea in one sentence.
Task 6. Watch Video 45 again, restore the words and expressions gapped below using the context in which they function in the video.
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 % of students …1-4…
What is the American equivalent of the term headmaster?
Task 7. Identify the grammatical structures used in Video 45. 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. As part of the school time table …cards.
7. “The introduction of … common sense”.
8. And 11 to 14 year olds … obesity.
9. But there’s concern … little.
What sentences prevail among the listed above – simple, complex or compound?
Task 8. Write out the following subcategories of lexical units of Video 45.
a) terms … (education, finance) …
b) phrasal verbs …
c) intensifying words …
d) nominative constructions …
e) clichés …
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