LISTENING. Cockney accent with Adele

LISTENING. Cockney accent with Adele

By Olha Slobodian

1.     Has Adele ever visited Japan?

2.     Was Adele sleeping at the concert in Amsterdam?

3.     Was Adele the first woman in space?

Watch the video and answer

(till 03.17)

Cockney accent ( East London)

In cockney, you don’t pronounce /h/ at the beginning of the words. So ‘horrible’ is /ɒrɪbəw/, ‘who’ is /uː/ and ‘help’ is /ewp/.

TIME CODE: 01.15 - 01.36

Cockney accent ( East London)

Cockney speakers will use glottal stops to replace /t/ before consonants and weak vowels

TIME CODE: 02.03-02.28

Cockney accent ( East London)

Cockney would replace voiceless ‘th’ /θ/ in words like ‘think’, ‘theatre’, with /f/, so they would be pronounced /fɪŋk/, /fɪəʔə/.

TIME CODE: 02.49-04.03

Cockney accent ( East London)

'Me' replaces 'my' in Cockney

TIME CODE: 04.54-05.14

Cockney accent ( East London)

TIME CODE: 00.00-01.12

Multiple Choice

What topics do they discuss?

• their previous relationship

• Adele's haircut

• Adele mum's friends

• the fact that Americans think England is rubbish

Poll

Who is more difficult to understand?

• James

• Adele

• both of them

• it's easy to understand both of them

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