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[MacLean]

I�m from Northern Ireland, so my school has asked me to teach Northern Ireland English alongside N. American English. At first I thought they must be joking, but they�re serious. I tried to dissuade them. As anyone who has met a N. Ireland person will know, the accent takes some getting used to. And there are less than two million of us on the planet. It�s not as if the kids will running into people from Londonderry/ Derry or Lurgan at the local Lotteria. Alas, they�re determined. Anyway, I�ve been looking for some material on the web. So far this is all I�ve found. If anyone can recommend anything else I�d be grateful. (Dead on I would.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as

[tanklor1]

Your school's insane.

[jcan]

lol. This is one I haven't heard before.

[edwardcatflap]

Just teach a few basic vocab differences between British and American English - pants v trousers etc..., which can be useful, and incorprate a few things about N Irealnd into your regular lessons. Anything else for this level, as tanklor1 says, would be insane

[oldtrafford]

I concur with Edward, anything more would be mental!!

[ThingsComeAround]

I'll raise you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooFvrKI46U

Edit: Sorry- gotta wait till the end to hear him say "Mar Peh-nutz"

[Charlie Bourque]

I'm assuming they want to expose the kids to as many varieties of English as possible.

To be honest, it's pretty damn bleeding-edge for a hagwon...

[southernman]

Maybe if it ever comes up, say that the equivalent of a so-mac in Northern Ireland would be called the car bomb, sorry I've forgotten the drinks ingredients but I'm sure you know. :

Otherwise, just go along with edwards suggestions about british vs american english. Just use the british equivalent word and say it's the Northern Ireland one. Nobody will know the difference.

If challenged just say the british and Northern Ireland version are the same due to centuries of imperial colinisation and explain it as, its the same thing as the Japanese and Chinese did to Korea.

[MacLean]

[southernman]

[edwardcatflap]

[N...]

This has to be the funniest thing I have ever heard. Teaching Northern Irish English to South Koreans..

Hope they don't want a lesson on Glaswegain when I hopefully come over in August for a year. Can you teach the children Profanity?

As for the debate above yes the protestant majority of the north was made up due to immigration to the plantation by protestants from Scotland hense the term Ulster Scots.

I wont go to far into politics as this is not the time or the place.

[Hotpants]

lol

You gotta give them credit, though, for getting away from the insistence that only North American English will do for Koreans. It'll also be good to put Northern Ireland on the map, since I bet there are few Koreans who could point out where it is.

I can't really see the benefits of going overboard on it, but you might want to introduce 'Irish' English/accents among the accents here: http://web.ku.edu/~idea/europe/ireland/ireland.htm They have a lot of non-native English speaker sample recordings from around the world including regional accents and dialects of Ireland, too, from Galway to Sligo!

You could get your students to try and explain what differences in sound they can hear, then get them to try and mimic what they hear, play Chinese whispers by getting one student to repeat what they hear from the recording and then going to the next room to relay what they've heard to another student and so on. Finally, get them over the border by reading Beckett over a pint of Guiness ...

Good luck!

[southernman]

I was obvoiusly alluding to the English invasion of Ireland.

Or aren't we discussing historical reasons, everyone knows why the scots settled in Ireland

In other words let's move on. Anyone who supports the English invasion can PM me

[legrande]

Go on, give'em the full monty, they've asked for it, and I think it's fair to say this request won't be one you'll be hearing anywhere else anytime soon, in this galaxy or the one next door