They separated Australian Accents into broad, general, and cultivated varieties. Australian English began to diverge from British English after the founding of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820. It arose from the intermingling of early settlers from a great variety of mutually intelligible dialectal regions of the British Isles and quickly developed into a distinct variety of English. The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

2. End of this module you shall learn the following:
Introduction to vowels
Mouth and Jaw relaxation exercises
Relation of sounds with words.
Pronunciation Practice.

3. Spelling As in
o who
u flute
ou soup
ew jewel
ue true
ui fruit
We make letter sounds by first bringing air up from our lungs. Next, we
use our articulators - voice box, tongue, velum, palate, alveolar ridge, teeth,
and lips - to control the movement, direction, pressure, and volume of this
air through our vocal tract.

4. The “æ” sound
 Drop your jaw and
 Make the “a” sound
 Now make the “e” sound
 Mæster Stændard
 Plæster behælf
 Glæss Pæst
Could you repeat the læst 4 numbers
In the pæst 3 years
Words
Accommodation
American
Anything
Relocated
Maker
Payment

5.  Light =loyght
 Might = moyght
 Fight = foyght
 Height = hoyght
 Plight = ployght
 Fahrenheit = fahrenheoyt
 Delighted = deloyghted
Words
Signatory
Sign
Delight
Might
Light

6.  No= noi
 Close = cloise
 Go = goi
 Dose =doise
 Oppose = oppoise
Words
Relocate
Accommodate
Process
Corporate
Available

7.  B = Beh
 C = Ceh
 Beach
 Teach
Learn the end words
 Words ending in “ER” now end in “ah”. For example, “Together”
sounds like “tuh-geth-ah”
 Words ending in a “G” are cut off. For example, “Catching” sounds
like “Cat-chn”
 Words ending in an "E" are also cut off. For example, "Mate" sounds
like "M-ayee-t."

8.  A sounds like “or” or “ayee” (AUtomatic or stAY) For
example, Aussie sounds like
 “Or-zie” and mate sounds like “M-ayee-t”
 E sounds like “e” without pronouncing the r
(knEEling) For example, Need sounds like “Ner-ee-d”
 I sounds like “ear” or “eye” (pIErce or mIght) For
example, irresponsible sounds like
 “ear-re-spon-sbl” and Hide sounds like “H-eye-d”
 O sounds like “ew” or “aw” (shOO or OUght) For
example, shoot sounds like “sh-ew-t”
 U sounds like “uh” (rOUgh) For example, suppose
sounds like “sugh-p-oh-s”

9. Vowel Phonemes of General Australian English
Monophthongs
Diphthongs
Long vowels Short vowels
/i/ heed
/a/ hard
/ɔ/hoard, saw
/u/who'd
heard/ɜ/
/ɪ/
/ɛ/
/æ/
/ʌ/
/ɒ/
/ʊ/
hid
head
had
mud
pod
hood
/eɪ/
/aɪ/
/ɔɪ/
/ʊə/
/oʊ/
/aʊ/
/ɪə/
/ɛə/
say
high
toy
cure
so
how
here
hair
(Single vowel sound)
(Double vowel sound)
[aɪ] i-e pine /paɪn/ ie pie /paɪ/
i kind /kaɪnd/ y try /traɪ/
uy buy /baɪ/ igh right /raɪt/
ui guide /ɡaɪd/

10. ɪkspɪriənsExperience
həlo haw ɑr juHello how are you
Ram and sam have gone to Delhi for
attending global exhibition on services
Ram ænd sam hæv gɒn tu dɛli fɔr
ətɛndɪŋ globəl ɛksəbɪʃən ɑn sərvəsəz
ASE Structure is a very fast growing
organization
ase strəktʃər ɪz ə vɛri fæst groɪŋ
ɔrgənəzeʃən
Mr Sam’s presentation on Ergonomics will
be very informative
mɪstər sams prɛzənteʃən ɑn
ərgənɑmɪks wil bae vɛri
ɪnfɔrmətɪv
In Australia people love sports, weather
makes Australians do sport all the year.
ɪn ɒstreljə pipəl ləv spɔrts, wɛðər
meks ɒstreljənz du spɔrt ɒl ðə jɪr.

11. Chook :chicken
Roo :kangaroo
Beaut / beauty :great, fantastic
Frog in a sock :sound angry
Oldies :parents
Youse :you
Vejjo :vegetarian
Chokkie :chocolate
Bikkie :biscuit
Cut lunch :sandwiches
Lollies :sweets
Loo :toilet
Munchies :snacks, nibbles
Strides :trousers
Sunnies :sunglasses
Tucker :food
Ace! :Excellent! Very good!
Arvo :afternoon
Exy :expensive

12. point seven (0.7) meaning 70% of her working time
point three (0.3) 30% of her working time
allotment allocation
to be privy to sthg to have inside knowledge
to take a punt to try, to gamble
to tackle something to attempt or try sthg difficult
staff workers, employees
to be demanding to be complicated/difficult
rhetoric hyperbole
core main, principal
to be highly skilled to be well trained and experienced
task job
to misbehave to not behave well
to snowball to worsen, to get bigger and bigger very quickly
welfare wellbeing
staff leave workers’ vacations/ holidays
to pretend to feign, to act like
laughable not serious
crowded full
to be dumped on to be left with sthg unwanted
to fit in to find time for
code of conduct rules of behaviour (often written down)
to lay something out to communicate sthg clearly
to give time out to take out of school (temporarily)
Detention period of temporary custody
strap narrow strip of cane or tough leather, used to beat children
protocol set of rules and established procedures
to grapple with something to face up to, to solve sthg
rewarding satisfying
to shape the vision of to design a plan for
Ballarat a small city in rural Victoria (Australia)

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