Dorset Accent listening exercise

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Listening Exercise

The Sound of Dorset

aims:

• You can follow spoken text despite differences in accents
  
• You can deduce the meaning of words from the context
  

• You learn about the development of British accents.

Which British accents do you know?

What is an accent? (you may answer in Dutch)

The Sound of Dorset

• Listen to the first 4 minutes of this Podcast about a Dorset accent. 

• Answer the following questions in Dutch:

- What is a county?

- What does authentic mean?

- What makes Kate Winslet good at learning a new accent?

- What does 'Dumpsy' mean and who would say this?

The Sound of Dorset 1

What is a county?

What does authentic mean?

What makes Kate Winslet good at learning a new accent?

What does 'Dumpsy' mean and who would say this?

The Sound of Dorset

• Listen to the next 3 minutes of this podcast about a Dorset accent. 
• You won't have to answer questions during listening, but you will be asked to answer some questions afterwards. You may answer all questions in Dutch.

The Sound of Dorset 2

How would someone from Dorset pronounce the word horse differently from someone who speaks Standard British English?

Do you think 'multicultural British English' is a good name for the accent(s) it refers to? And why?

I found this listening exercise:

Way too easy. I understood everything and the questions were easy.

Easy to understand but the questions were difficult.

Hard to understand but the questions were doable.

I couldn't understand the text and the questions were hard.

Another option not mentioned here.

Do you agree that a 'Multicultural Dutch' accent has developed in our country?

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Multicultural Dutch is an up and coming accent / dialect in our country. 

- In groups of 3 discuss and try to find evidence for and/or against  this argument.

- You can do research online but also take into account your own personal experience with this - think of accents you hear in school, in music or on TV for example.

Multicultural Dutch is an up and coming accent our country. 

Assignment - choose one of the following:

• Prepare a short presentation of your findings (at least 5 minutes) - you need to have some audio/visual support like a Powerpoint
• Write a song or poem using what you think is Multicultural Dutch
• Record an audio session of at least 4 minutes in which you discuss the matter as a group and maybe even give some examples
  
  You must present this  to the class the next lesson. Support your argument with sources you have found.