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Accent and dialect<br />
Accent means the way you pronounce words.<br />
Dialect means the words you actually use.<br />
Accent<br />
Everyone speaks with an accent. In your class, there might be pupils speaking with different accents.<br />
By this, we also mean English words which are pronounced in a certain way.<br />
In groups<br />
Talk about the different voices in your class. How many different accents can you find? Are they<br />
all Scottish? English? Do some pupils come from another country and speak English with a very<br />
different accent? What accent does your teacher have? Do the class agree that there is a local accent in<br />
your town or village?<br />
Dialect<br />
Scots dialect words will be different from English. Repeat the same exercise as for accent and find<br />
out, in your class, if anybody uses dialect words. For example, in Programme 1, one girl talks about<br />
loons and quines instead of boys and girls.<br />
Writing<br />
Make a class list of dialect words that are used by your class.<br />
Homework<br />
A CTIVITY SHEET 2<br />
At home, maybe over two nights, list any dialect words you hear from family and friends.<br />
Go into local shops and cafes and listen to people’s voices. You might want to work in pairs for<br />
this task. List any words you think might be dialect.<br />
Class activity<br />
Discuss your findings. Were there<br />
any words you weren’t sure about? Did<br />
you know which words were different<br />
from Standard English? Did you<br />
discover new words you’d never heard<br />
before? Who spoke these words? Old<br />
people? Young people?<br />
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