Tle Spé AMC - English as a unifying language

Final Task

Step 1

Global language with variations

American English & Cie

GB US AUS

The rise of English

Hinglish

Franglish

Spanglish

Method

Before we start

How does English maintain a global culture ?

Axe 1: Unité & Pluralité

Collapsiing with another language

Step 2

Thématiques: Faire société (I)

English as a unifying language

How many English-speaking countries can you name?

1,000 Global Cities

the De Facto language

English seafarers the British East India Company

Norman Conquest

Military might silver screen

Standardizing

Angles, Saxons and Jutes

Timeline: The rise of English

George Bernard (GB) Shaw

Mahatma Gandhi

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value"

"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing"

Quotes

Quotes

Guess the English accent

Autumn

Fall

Store

Shop

Lorry

Candies

Bathroom

Diapers

Rubbish

Garbage

Apartment

Flat

Rubber

Eraser

Pants

Trousers

Nappies

Diapers

British? American? Both?

Fall

Autumn

Store

Shop

Lorry

Candies

Bathroom

Diapers

Rubbish

Garbage

Apartment

Flat

Rubber

Eraser

Pants

Trousers

Nappies

Diapers

American

Both

British

Fall

Autumn

Store

Shop

but different meaning. any room with a shower or a bathtub (GB) a place with washing facilities containing a toilet bu not necessarily a shower (US)

Pants

Lorry

Candies

Bathroom

Rubbish

Garbage

Apartment

Flat

Rubber

Eraser

but different meaning. Sous-vêtements (GB) Pantalon (US)

Trousers

Nappies

Diapers

American

Both

British

Many words sound the same in both American English and British English, but are spelled differently. For example: Words originally from French that end in "-our" in British English (colour, honour, neighbour, etc.) end in "-or" in American English ( color, honor, neighbor). Words that come from French that end in -re in British English (metre, centre, theatre) end in -er in American English. In these cases Canadian English very often keep the British spelling. Verbs that end in -ise in British English (criticise, realise) end in -ize in American English (criticize, organize, realize). However, the -ize ending is optional in British English, and is shown as an option in British dictionaries.

Recognizing American English

One of the changes introduced by Noah Webster (known as the "author" of the American English dictionnary) is the change of the double "l" from words like "cancelled" to "canceled" or "travelled" to "traveled".

Recognizing American English

People from Britain and Ireland first came to live in Australia in 1788 (colony of New South Wales). They brought different dialects of English with them. These different kinds of English began to mix and change. The newcomers soon began to speak with their own distinctive accent and vocabulary. More and more people came to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many people came looking for gold. Some came from Britain and Ireland. Others came from non-English speaking countries. Australian English continued to grow and change. Australian English has also been influenced by American English. During the Second World War, there were many American soldiers staying in Australia. American television shows and music have been popular in Australia since the 1950s.

Australian English

The Australian and New Zealand accents are similar. In Australian English the /r/ sound can only occur before a vowel. Many words which sound different in other accents sound the same in Australian English. Some examples are: caught and court / raw and roar / aunt and aren't / formally and formerly. Days of the week are often different and the day sounds like dee (usually short and sharp like the letter D). Sunday becomes Sun-dee / Monday - Mun-dee / Tuesday - Choose-dee / Wednesday - Wens-dee (1st D and 2nd E are rarely pronounced and if so, it sounds more like Weddinsday but never Weddinsdee) Thursday - Thurs-dee / Friday - Fri-dee / Saturday - Satta-dee/Sadda-dee or even shorter Sat-dee/Sad-dee (both D's pronounced separately with the syllable break between them) How would you pronounce : Have a good day! In Australian English?

Australian English

Australian English has some vowels not used in some other kinds of English. For example, the words bad and lad do not rhyme because bad has a long vowel and lad has a short one. Also, cot does not sound like caught and bother does not rhyme with father. As with US English the /t/ sound can sometimes sound like a /d/ sound. This usually happens between vowels. So, for example, waiter can sound like wader, betting can sound like bedding, got it can sound like god it thirty can sound like thirdy. Also in the Australian accent a /t/ sound plus the sound of you comes out sounding like chew and a /d/ sound plus the sound of you comes out sounding like Jew. Here are some examples of things which sound the same. Tuesday and choose day due and Jew dune and June

Australian English

to be a stubby short of a six pack

Telly

a sanga

G'Day

Mozzie

Stoked

Chrissie

Blowie

Let's have a cuppa!

the Arvo

No Wucka's

Let's have a barbie!

Have a good one!

Bloke

Mate

Try to find the meaning of these different Australian slang and idioms in British or American English

Aussie Slangs & Idioms

Choose one of the following situations and prepare to act it in pairs.

Option 2

• A is responsible for recruiting a new journalist for national TV and organizes a job interview.
• B is an applicant for the job but they don’t have a standard accent. Imagine the conversation.

• A is a student who has poshed up their regional accent at university they’re coming home for the weekend and meet their friend B for a drink.

B remarks on it, asks questions and gives their opinion on the issue.

Option 1

FINAL TASK

• Create a dialogue and rehearse a lot!
• Be creative, funny and original
• Pronunciation and accents / language will make a BIG, BIG difference
• Use your notes, go on the internet to check pronunciation, listen to different accents
• Try to be as close as possible to something.... different from "Received Pronunciation".
• You have 2 hours to train.... And the rest will depend a lot on my daily mood!

FINAL TASK

OECD

OECD (OCDE in French): Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum whose member countries describe themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members.