Dialects and Accents

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Dialects and Accents

After today's lesson:

• You can describe the difference between a dialect and an accent.

• You can describe the sounds and background of the Cockney dialect.

Dialect or accent?

You are going to watch two videoclips.

Are the people in the clips using an accent or a dialect and why?

00:32

Is this person speaking with an accent or a dialect?

Dialect

Accent

00:30

Is this person speaking with an accent or a dialect?

Dialect

Accent

The Cockney dialect

On the next slide you need to type in everything you know or can find about the Cockney dialect.

Feel free to use the internet.

Cockney

01:00

Example

What happens to the Schwa /Ə/ sound at the end of the word doctor.

Answer:

This sound is more strongly pronounced.

01:39

What happens to the:
The /h/ sound as heard at the start of the word hotel.

02:02

The /l/ sound as heard at the end of the word hell.

02:38

The /t/ sound as heard in the middle of the word water.

Rounding off

Today's goals were:

•     You can describe the difference between a dialect and an accent.

•    You can describe the sounds and background of the Cockney dialect.

Now take a few minutes to reflect on these. Did we achieve them? How? Why are they important?

Did we achieve the goals for this lesson?

What did you learn?

Questions?