Feed Forward

Good work – nice ideas and good detail.

Acting on feedback:

1. Where you see a © in the margin, it means that you need to correct a literacy error on that line. It may be a spelling, punctuation or grammatical mistake – you need to work it out (own, friend, dictionary, me).

2. Where I’ve put FF, you need to write a response – this may be a question to answer or you may need to go back and improve something.

ALL THIS MUST BE DONE IN RED PEN SO I CAN SEE IT

Date:

Accent and Dialect

Learning Objective:

1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Own perception

In pairs, make a list of accents you consider to be nice and ones you think don’t sound nice.

Challenge• Choose one example from each list and explain

your why you have this perception of the accent.

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Received Pronunciation: the accent of standard English

Accents

Listen to the video and try and guess which accents are revealed.Rate each speaker on a scale of 1 – 5 (1 = very, 5 = not very)

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4

From?

Trustworthy

Friendly

Intelligent

Attractive

Honest

Attitudes Towards Accents

Which accent did you think sounded the best? Why?

Attitudes Towards Accents

What do these headlines reveal about people’s attitudes towards accents?

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Summarising Attitudes To Accents

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

• What attitudes towards accent exist?

• Why is this the case?

• What is your attitude?

• What might the counter argument be?

• Is there any room for the idea that everyone should speak in Received Pronunciation if we wish to compete on an international level?

Dialect

A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.

For example,Scottish say ‘wee’ = small.

Why do people use dialectic words?

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/regional-voices/lexical-variation/

Dialectical words are words that are seen as commonplace and appropriate by those who use them – usually localised to a specific region.

Also, there are dialectical sentence structures which are accepted.

For example,

Happen she were wearing a mask (Yorkshire).What age are you? (Irish)

Why Ay Man (Geordie)

Extension: what is the difference between dialect and slang?

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

http://www.btplc.com/BetterFuture/ConnectedSociety/LearningAndSkillsFreeResources/AllTalk/default.aspx

Going Local: The Bristolian Dialect

What examples of the Bristolian dialect can you spot?

What are the reactions to their dialect that Bristolians have encoutered?

What examples are there of the Evesham/Worcestershire dialect?

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

1. What is the difference between accent and dialect?

2. What attitudes towards accents and dialects exist?

3. What is your attitude towards these?

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.

Mr Findlay’s Guide to successful PEE writing for Spoken Language

Point – engage with the question directly. Make a statement which you will be able to expand upon.

Evidence – select the best bit of evidence which you will use to back up your point.

Explain – zoom in on one or two key features within the evidence and explain fully how these support your point. You need to explore the context of the conversation.

Attitudes – zoom out of the specifics and explore what attitudes exist towards language using this example and explain why these exist and if they are justified.

Learning Objective:1. To explain why people have certain attitudes towards accents and

dialects SO THAT you can explore differing attitudes.