Презентация к уроку английского языка "Australian English Pronunciation" - скачать

mix: 92% white, 7% Asian, 1% Aborigine
Capital: Canberra
Population of capital: 330.000
Government: A federation of 6 states and 2 territories. Australia was a British colony until 1901. It is still a monarchy (Britain’s monarch is also Australia’s ) but it is now an independent state.

Climate: Coasts: fertile, mountainous
North: tropical
Centre: desert (known as “the bush” or “the outback”)

phenomenon:
A way of pronouncing the language.
A unified entity of pronunciation patterns used for communicative interaction by the members of the same speech community. Speakers of the same accent typically :
Share a relevant social or geographical attribute and
Maintain a uniform set of phonological characteristics, despite a certain amount of limited phonetic and lexical –incidental variation between them
An emphasis given to words or syllables by means of pitch, loudness and length
Pronounciation features in a foreign language influenced by the mother tongue

area (and in some 30 times bigger than GB). Australian population is mostly urban, living in the fertile areas near the coast.

The Distinctive features of AuE:
It’s typical of AuE speakers to shorten words. That gives “Strine” (a popular term for AuE) its special style – informal, friendly and sometimes funny☺
e.g. mozzie=mosquito
postie=postman
Aussie= Australian
beaut=beautiful
barbie=barbecue
biggie=something big

Pronunciation

Scottish
English

Welsh
English

Northern Ireland
English

New Englishes

Indian
English

South African
English

Hong Kong
English

Singaporean English

Etc.

user, teacher

Cuppa =

Cup of tea

Croc =

Crocodile

Choice =

Chocolate

Ciggie =

Cigarette

Cuke\cuey =

Cucumber

Info =

Information

Mo =

Moment

Lecky =

Electric

Footy =

Football

Ta =

Thank

A brolly =

Umbrella

A bikkie =

A biscuit

G’day =

Hello (Good Day)

remote regional areas;
Walkabout – to refer to a long journey of uncertain length;
Bush – to refer to native forested areas, but also to regional areas as well.

agriculture and popular Australian people use all the time.

Amber fluid – beer;
Bonzer – very good;
Crook – ill;
Lollies – sweets;
Bush station – farm,
Pom – an English person,
Seppo – an American

Examples of a few common Australian words:

Which of the sports is she describing?

Key: Scuba diving

Scuba Diving

Waterskiing

Surfing

Windsurfing