Students Book

5 Listen
a
CD2 T25 Listen to the
beginning of a TV programme.
Draw lines between the
accents (1–6)and the cities
where they are spoken.
1. Brummie
2. Scouse
3. Geordie
4. Mancunian
5. Estuary English
6. Glaswegian
SCOTLAND
Glasgow
b
CD2 T25 Listen again.
What examples are given of:
1 pronunciation differences
(accent)?
2 vocabulary differences
(dialect)?
IRELAND
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
foreign
regional
a London accent
heavy
strong
slight
WALES
Birmingham
ENGLAND
London
c
CD2 T26 Listen to the next part of the TV programme. You are going to hear four teenagers
talking about their accents. Where do they come from? Write the places under the names.
Marie Patrick Tina John
1 2 3 4
d
CD2 T26
Write the names. Listen again and check.
1 had a small problem at school.
2 is not very concerned about his accent.
3 isn’t going to change how she speaks.
4 thinks she didn’t get a job in the past
because of her accent.
5 thinks she wouldn’t have got a job in the
past because of her accent.
6 was not completely understood in London.
7 thinks he could lose his accent in the future.
8 thinks accents aren’t very important
these days.
Discussion box
1 Are there many different
accents in your country?
2 Are there any accents that
you really like (in your own
language or in English)? Why?
3 When you meet someone
for the first time, can you tell
where they come from by their
accent?
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