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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 5; Issue 1; January 03
Accent Dictation
Level: elementary to advanced
Time: l5- 25 minutes
Purpose : to prepare the students for the reality of listening to different native
speaking accents and to liven up the coursebook readings
Preparation : choose a reading text from a unit in the book three or four beyond
where you have got to. Find a native speaker or native speakers who can
read the text in three different regional, class or national accents of
English, eg: Welsh, Texas, and upper class UK.
Record three readings.
Lesson outline:
- Ask the class to listen the same text in the three different accents.
- Ask them to tell you what they notice about the accents. Some students will be able to imitate them.
- Ask them to vote on which accent they would like to take down a dictation of
the text from.
Give them the dictation from cassette in the accent they have chosen. - Play the text again in one of the other accents.
- Get them to correct spellings and check on meanings from the text in the
coursebook.
