Accents, Personal Stories, Fluency Practice Series, Intermediate Level, Volume 7
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This book includes personal stories narrated by seventeen people from different parts of the United Kingdom, the USA, Ireland, Canada and Australia. It will teach you how to present a personal story in a concise and interesting form. You can listen to the samples of all the 17 accents free on Audible.
Our intention in recording this range of voices was neither to collect as many accents as possible, nor to find the most typical or strongest accents. Rather, our aim was to illustrate a range of regional pronunciation in English. By listening to the stories the reader will hear the differences in the way native speakers communicate in English, and get an idea of how the language is spoken in such diverse places as London, New York, Manchester and many other parts of the English speaking world.
Based on the Speech Plasma Method Accents, Personal Stories is part of the Fluency Practice series designed to expose students to English as spoken by native speakers in a range of situations.
This book, however, differs from the others in the series, in that while the stories the speakers tell were also recorded and transcribed, they were not edited in order to rid them of unnecessary repetition or other grammatical errors. This gives the stories the authentic flavour of English as it is spoken.
The book’s aim is to expose the student to an actual informal, conversational style. Educationalists are currently debating the factors which influence the way in which English is spoken, such as the speaker’s thought processes as they mingle with the demands of grammar and syntax, and sometimes it is unclear which usage of the language is “correct” or not.
What is evident, however, about conversational style is that in the process of speaking, while expressing thoughts and ideas, it is impossible to avoid afterthoughts, interrupted thoughts, repetition and retracing of ideas. So the way we have commented on the text is by detecting grammatical mistakes in the words and sentences that did not occur under the influence of these extra-linguistic factors. Mistakes of the type belong to non-standard English (NSE). The other uses of technically “incorrect” English should be considered as current conversational style (CS).
Accents, Personal Stories can be used for listening and reading practice, for identifying regional accents and analysing various informal types of speech. The book can also be used for teaching and learning how to present a personal story in a concise and interesting form.
Alexander Pavlenko
Russian-Hungarian roots. Born in Russia. Presently lives in Budapest, Hungary. Teaches Russian, English and Hungarian in his own language school. Uses his own method, the Speech Plasma Method, which enables his students to speak and think in the language from the very first lessons. Enjoys taking on tough challenges like dealing with elderly people, dyslexic children, students with minor mental disorders. Strongly believes that if the method works for such students, it works for anyone. Has released books, ebooks, audiobooks and apps based on the Speech Plasma Method in English, Russian and Hungarian.
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Accents, Personal Stories, Fluency Practice Series, Intermediate Level, Volume 7 - Alexander Pavlenko
ACCENTS
PERSONAL STORIES
FLUENCY PRACTICE SERIES
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
VOLUME 7
by Alexander Pavlenko
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ACCENTS
PERSONAL STORIES
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
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Foreword
This book includes personal stories narrated by seventeen people from different parts of the United Kingdom, the USA, Ireland, Canada and Australia. You can listen to samples of all the 17 accents free on Audible.
Our intention in recording this range of voices was neither to collect as many accents as possible, nor to find the most typical or strongest accents. Rather, our aim was to illustrate a range of regional pronunciation in English. By listening to the stories the reader will hear the differences in the way native speakers communicate in English, and get an idea of how the language is spoken in such diverse places as London, New York, Manchester and many other parts of the English speaking world.
Based on the Speech Plasma Method Accents, Personal Stories is part of the Fluency Practice series designed to expose students to English as spoken by native speakers in a range of situations.
This book, however, differs from the others in the series, in that while the stories the speakers tell were also recorded and transcribed, they were not edited in order to rid them of unnecessary repetition or other grammatical errors. This gives the stories the authentic flavour of English as it is spoken.
The book’s aim is to expose the student to an actual informal, conversational style. Educationalists are currently debating the factors which influence the way in which English is spoken, such as the speaker’s thought processes as they mingle with the demands of grammar and syntax, and sometimes it is unclear which usage of the language is correct
or not.
What is evident, however, about conversational style is that in the process of speaking, while expressing thoughts and ideas, it is impossible to avoid afterthoughts, interrupted thoughts, repetition and retracing of ideas. So the way we have commented on the text is by detecting grammatical mistakes in the words and sentences that did not occur under the influence of these extra-linguistic factors. Mistakes of the type belong to non-standard English (NSE). The other uses of technically incorrect
English should be considered as current conversational style (CS).
Accents, Personal Stories can be used for listening and reading practice, for identifying regional accents and analysing various informal types of speech. The book can also be used for teaching and learning how to present a personal story in a concise and interesting form.
CONTENTS
Story 1 Adam, England: North London
Story 2 Tim, England: Oxford
Story 3 Peter, England: South-East London
Story 4 Janet, England: Essex
Story 5 Nigel, England: Manchester
Story 6 Simon, England: Lancashire
Story 7 Nick, Scotland: Fife
Story 8 Patrick, Northern Ireland: Belfast
Story 9 Andrew, Ireland: Dublin
Story 10 Gerson, USA: San Francisco
Story 11 Sarah, USA: Seattle
Story 12 Todd, USA: Sacramento
Story 13 Theresa, USA: New York
Story 14 Bob, USA: Boston
Story 15 Christina, USA: Portland
Story 16 Michael, Canada: Toronto
Story 17 Anthony, Australia: Brisbane
First you will hear one or two sentences from a different speaker each representing a different accent. Listen to this chain of accents and try to identify as many as possible!
1. ...and here I am, back here today, still writing about the bars and restaurants in Hungary, writing about the bars and restaurants in Warsaw, and even writing about the bars and restaurants in Prague and Slovakia, and Croatia...
2. Restauranteur and restaurant manager, it's always great to eat there. It doesn't help my figure or anything, but it's a great hobby, you know. Good food, good wine, good company - what more could you ask for? It's good.
3. When I was younger, I used to enjoy playing soccer, which is known as football in Europe, and it served me well, because when I was twelve years old, I came to Budapest, Hungary, the land of my mother's birth...
4. He was working for VSO, which is Voluntary Services Overseas, and he met her at a festival for rain which they do occasionally, each year, for the crops, and the rain gods to rain down on the crops and give a fruitful harvest
5. Since then, I've published four titles - in 1978 Death in the Desert
, 1982 Blood on the Nile
, 1988 The Battle for Africa
, and, finally, in 1993, my magnus opus, The Definitive Guide to Zulu Cooking
6. I've developed many hobbies here. I play guitar for fun and I write poetry and I'm writing a novel at present, none of which have been published. I work on computers, and I enjoy creating things in general.
7. It was also in some ways kind of educational, to see the different reactions you got from people when you appeared on the doorstep, and just peering into different people's houses and the reactions they got.
8. I'm also interested in the textiles and the folk culture, and I've travelled in Romania extensively to collect different kinds of weavings and embroideries that are made by the peasants who live there.
9. And, in between, I went to live in Berlin for a year, which was good. It was less