Accents collide:
American Boy song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIK1IzWl_Xc
Notting Hill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArlsU2_cUbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTjIRQU_HdM&feature=relmfu
Love Actually:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ouyeycWk8
Funny clip about American girls loving British accents!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIXHcOjJpxY
How do to an British accent tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtXcrElq5jM
Accent database from ANYWHERE! With phonetics! So cool!
http://accent.gmu.edu/
HW: BBC Britishisms used by Americans
Read, comment on this article, and make up a dialogue with 3 of the words/phrases!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249
The article is so cool. I knew more about the slang here,but giving examples of how to use is more perfect.
ReplyDeleteDialogue:
In my gap year, I popped over Anita's room..
Ellen: wow,nice frock!! I fancy it.
Where did u buy?
Anita:Well, I have to sussed out
cuz it has been for 2 years.
Ellen: it's still look good. How's the price?
Anita: U won't wanna know. I was skint then....
hahahaha Ellen you crack me up!
ReplyDeleteI think this article is useful because there were many new words to me.
ReplyDeleteOne day, I'm going to buy Kanako's new mobile with her...
Kanako: I don't wanna buy new one. But I have to do because of the numpty!
Misaki: You mean your BF? I was gobsmacked to hear you had had a row with he.
Kanako: Yeah! At that time, I was just calling my brother on my mobile. But he misunderstood and wrested it. And then it slipped from his hand and fell in the loo!
Misaki: Doesn't he buy one for you?
Kanako: No. Because he is skint...
Misaki: Oh, I am sorry...
I'll be a numpty if I try to compite with Ellen coment, well I'm gobsmacked!!
ReplyDeleteBy the way... Your comment is so fancy !! Innit ??
And Yedil and Allen?
ReplyDeleteFancy the adjective meaning formal or elegant is American English. Fancy as a verb meaning like is more British.
"I don't fancy Adele's music. I like rock and roll better."