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Description: | Sophie and Sam describe their bedrooms and talk about what they do in their spare time. Surrey Quays is an area of Bermondsey, whilst Greenwich (just to the east of Bermondsey) and Catford (to the southeast) are nearby areas of London. Bacon’s refers to Bacon’s College in Rotherhithe (just to the east of Bermondsey). Michael Owen (born in Chester in 1979) is an England international and former Liverpool footballer who joined Real Madrid in 2004.
lexis
nan = grandmother (term of endearment); pictures = cinema; cause = because
phonology
H-dropping; T-glottaling; L-vocalisation; TH-fronting
FACE [aI]; GOAT [6}]; MOUTH [{: ~ a:]; PRICE [AI]; NORTH [O:U]; FLEECE [@i:]; GOOSE [}:]; TRAP [{]; STRUT [6]; lettER [6 ~ @]
note also windOW [wInd6], bedroom [bEdr/Um], little [lI?o], printer [pr/In?@], shelves [SEofs], computers [k@mpj}:?@z], often [Qft@n], cinema [sIn@mA:], something [s6mIn ~ s6mINk], baths [bA:Ts], (be)cause [k@s] and didn’t [dI?=nt]
grammar
third person singular be + negative particle ® ain’t (I’ve got a few more computers but they ain’t set up)
multiple negation (I don’t get none)
first person singular have + negative particle ® ain’t (I ain’t spent that yet)
relative pronoun ® what (it’s just a club what goes on on a Friday)
zero to + place-name (sometimes I go _ pictures or bowling or something; since I’ve been coming _ Bacon’s, I’ve been going out a lot) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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