Жеребина Анастасия

• British English consists of …

Key - English English, Welsh English, Scottish English, Northern English

2. The Cockney accent belongs to the group of … English accents.

Key - Southern English accents

3. The abbreviation “RP” means …

Key - RP (Received Pronunciation)

4.The Glottal stop [?] is …

Key - a realization of syllable-final [t] before a following consonant: e.g. batman [`bætman] - [`bæ?man], not quite [`nɒt `kwaɪt] - [`nɒ? `kwaɪt].

5. Newcastle, Yorkshire and Brandford accents belong to the group of … English accents.

Key - Northern English Accents

6. Name the wrong variant: British English consists of: a) English English; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English; e) Manchester English;

f) Northern Ireland English.

Key – e

7. Name the R-less dialect:

a) English of south-west of England; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English;

e) Northern Ireland English.

Key – d

8. The voiced\voiceless distinction of the minimal pairs [sed] – [set], [dɔg] – [dɔk]

takes place in:

a) English English; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English;

e) Northern Ireland English; f) Doesn`t take place at all.

Key – f

9. Find the Northern English Accent:

a) Greater London;

b) Cockney;

c) Bedfordshire;

d) Birmingham.

Key – d

10. Name the Accent-

bag [bᴂg] – [bɛg], [bɛɪg];

now [nau] – [nᴂə];

thin [fɪn], booth [bu:f];

weather [`wevə];

this [dɪs], them [(d)əm]:

a) Newcastle;

b) Cockney;

c) Yorkshire and Brandford;

d) Birmingham.

Key – b

11. Find the Cockney accent:

a) city [`sɪtti:];

b) “ing” is [ɪn]: shilling [`ʃɪlɪn];

c) loch [lɒx];

d) milk [mɪvk], table [teɪbv].

Key –d

12. Name the Accent-

love [lʌv] – [luv];

dance [dᴂns], chance [tʃᴂns]; bay [be:] – [bɪe];

boat [bo:t] – [buot];

a) Newcastle;

b) Cockney;

c) Yorkshire and Brandford;

d) Birmingham.

Key – c

13. Name the dialect-

rubber [`rəbə];

girl [go:l];

bake [be:k];

fear [`fi:jə], poor [`pu:wə];

city [`sɪtti:].

a) English English; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English;

e) Northern Ireland English.

Key – d

14. Name the dialect- loch [lɒx]; through [ʃru:]

a) English English; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English;

e) Northern Ireland English.

Key – c

15. Name the dialect-

gate [gɪət], say [sɛ];

city [`sɪdi:];

mother [`mɔ:ər];

[h] is present.

a) English English; c)Scottish English; d) Welsh English;

e) Northern Ireland English.

Key - e

American English pronunciation.

Кулаткина Валерия, Купряхина Наталия

• There are certain varieties of educated American speech. In the USA there are three types of cultivated speech. What are they?

1)

2)

3)

( 1 the Eastern type, 2 the Southern type, 3 Western or General American)

• American English may be analyzed from 3 point of view.

1) Peculiarities Vowels and Consonants

2)

3)

(2 Stress Differences, 3 Intonation Differences)

• General American is the form of speech is mostly used in …

(scientific, cultural and business intercourses)

• The inventory of GA (General American) diphtongs varies from ________________ to ________________ phonemes. ( write the numbers)

(3, 12)

• In GA concerning the Intonation differences, what do they use instead of Low – Rise in many cases ?

( High Rise)

• How many main types of cultivated speech do they recognize in the USA?

• - 3

• – 4

• – 5

• – 6

( Answer – 1) – 3)

• American English may be analysed from _____________ points of view.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

(Answer – 3)

• General American is also known as ______________________

• Northern American

• English American

• Scandinavian American

• Southern American

(Answer - Northern American)

• What are they often called an American twag?

1 Accent

2 Flaw

3 Nasalization

4 Feature

(Answer - 3)

• Choose the right variant of GA. – I don’t want to go to the theater.

1)

2)

3)

4)

(Answer – 2)

• The three RP vowels [ ɔ ], [ æ ], [ a: ], corresponded to only two vowels in GA - [ ] and [ ]

1 [ ɔ ] [æ ]

2 [a: ] [ æ ]

3 [ æ ] [ ə ]

4 [a: ] [æ ]

(Answer 4 )

VII Many differences involve the pronunciation of individual words or groups of words.

Choose GA pronunciation.

1) [ ' e i ʃ ə ]

2) [ 'kɔrj ən ]

3) [ 'leʒ ə ]

4) [ va:z ]

(Answer - 2)

VIII Choose the General American pronunciation.

Shone	Tomato
1)[ ʃ oun ]	1)[ tə'ma:təu ]
2)[ ʃ ɔn ]	2)[ tə'meitou ]
Answer -	Answer -

(Answer – 1) ( Answer - 2)

IX Choose the GA variant of pronunciation

Path	Half
1)[ a: ]	1)[ æ ]
2)[ æ ]	2)[ a: ]
Answer -	Answer -

( Answer - 2) (Answer – 1)

X. The Fall- Rise nuclear tone is different in RP and GA. Choose the GA.

• Really?

1)

• 2)

3)

4

Answer - 1

Syllable Formation in English