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    Pronunciation: "The Divine Gift of Articulate Speech" Read & Think

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    The document discusses pronunciation and dialects of the English language. It examines the status of English and issues with how some English speakers pronounce words. It also provides excerpts from the film My Fair Lady and asks questions about scenes where characters practice pronunciation.

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    Introduction to English pronunciation for Intermediate and advanced learners of English.

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    The document discusses pronunciation and dialects of the English language. It examines the status of English and issues with how some English speakers pronounce words. It also provides excerpts from the film My Fair Lady and asks questions about scenes where characters practice pronunciation.

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    Pronunciation: "The Divine Gift of Articulate Speech" Read & Think

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    HANDOUT

    Pronunciation
    The divine gift of articulate speech
    Read & Think

    What is the status of the English language


    according to this text?
    Can you spot the irony?

    Anyone can spot an Irishman or a


    Yorkshireman by his brogue1, but I can place a
    man within six miles in London. Sometimes
    within two streets. ()
    Why cant the English teach their children how
    to speak?
    This verbal class distinction by now should be
    antique
    If you spoke as she does, sir,
    instead of the way you do
    you might be selling flowers too.
    An Englishman of speaking
    absolutely classifies him.
    The moment he talks makes other Englishmen
    despise2 him
    One common language
    Im afraid well never get
    Oh, why cant the English learn to
    set a good example to people
    whose English is painful to your ears.
    The Scotch and the Irish
    leave you close to tears3 .
    There even are places

    where English completely disappears.


    Why, in America
    they havent used it for years!
    Why cant the English teach their children how
    to speak?
    Norwegians learn Norwegian
    the Greeks are taught in Greek,
    In France every Frenchman
    knows his language from A to Z,
    The French dont care what they do actually
    as long as they pronounce it properly.
    Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of
    summer lightening4
    The Hebrews learn it backwards
    which is absolutely frightening5.
    Use proper English
    youre regarded as a freak6
    Why cant the English
    Why cant the English learn to speak?
    From the film: My Fair Lady
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=jhninL_G3Fg)

    a strong accent, especially Irish and Scottish

    to hate

    you can almost cry when you hear them

    (FR) clair

    makes you scared

    a person (or animal) with a strange abnormality; to freak out = to get scared of sg
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    Practice to hear, practice to say


    The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plane.
    In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.
    How kind of you to let me come.
    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJr9SSJKkII)
    What has changed between the two moments?
    What do you think the relationship between the two characters is?

    Watch the film without sound from 0.52 to 2.1.


    What do you think they are doing?
    What do you think the difference is between the man and the girls way of blowing into the glass
    ball?
    Which sound do you think they are practicing?

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    Every time you pronounce the letter H correctly the flame will waver7 every time you drop8 your
    H the flame will remain stationary. Thats how youll know you have done correctly by the time
    your ear will hear the difference. See it better in the mirror.
    In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire hurricanes hardly ever happen.

    Watch the film with sound from 3.07 to 4.23


    What is the problem with the way the girl says the following: How kind of you to let me come.
    What is the similarity between the following two phrases: cup of tea / kind of you

    Enjoy the film


    Watch the result of Professor Higgins training sessions with Mrs Doolittle:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOopiSX4KrI
    The full movie of May Fair Lady directed by George Cukor with Audrey Hapburn and Rex Harrison
    is based on the play Pygmalion by G.B. Shaw.

    This worksheet is based on excerpts from the movie My Fair Lady (1964)
    using videos on You Tube.
    7 when the flame moves, to flicker
    8

    leave out
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