VARIETIES OF ENGLISH - ACCENTS

Examples from Youtube: American Australian British Irish Scottish Pidgin

FIRSTLY – THE DEFINITIONS Standard language –The variety of a language treated

as the official language and used in public broadcasting, publishing and education

Accent – The many several ways in which language can be pronounced

Dialect – Variation in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation

Pidgin – A simplified form of speech, usually a mixture of two or more languages. With simplified grammar and vocabulary. Used for communication between groups speaking different languages.

Creole – A pidgin which has developed into a mother tongue. It has become a native language for the people in that specific region

AMERICAN ENGLISH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKc_Cy

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Can sound completely different though;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R30D7v5RRSY

Has approximately 280,950,438 (2007) speakers if you count the americans – but how many people speak American English in the rest of the world if you think about it?

CAN YOU THINK OF ANY OTHER VARIETIES OF AMERICAN ENGLISH?

AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0v9tZStAk&feature=fvst

Did you notice any differences between Australian English and American English?

In Australia, there are 22,620,600 (2011) inhabitants.

BRITISH Tons of different accents;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNQfPDpt-Y

Yorkshirehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGHIW3GQv8

Londonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w

RPhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNu3q5ODgqs

How would you rank these varities when it comes to status? Which one will be on the top? Which one on the bottom?

SCOTTISH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J8F

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IRISH http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9x

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Ireland has 4,487,000 inhabitants (2011).

TIME TO DISCUSS WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD- What are your thoughts on the position

in the world for these varities? If you consider how familiar you are with them, how many speakers they have etc…

- Discuss in groups.

PIDGIN/CREOLE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7X9AAeD

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A pidgin is a variety of a language that developed for some practical purpose, for an example trading. An English pidgin is a language which has developed from English, mainly.

There are several English pidgins used today, out of which you will hear one type now.

There are believed to be between six and twelve million people still speaking pidgin languages.