Scots Lang - 2

The Rebel Tongue

1/ VOCAB WORDS WEEK 2 - QUESTIONS - BOOK DORIC FOR BEGINNERS

FAR, FIT, FAN, FOO, FAA, FIT WYE ? (P.4) If yer nae in the Northeast: whaur, whit, whaun, hou, wha, how?

List the words and find out the meanings

Write 6 questions to your Music or Sporting hero, as if you are doing a TV interview with them. Use the words above.

TODAY'S FEATURED WORD (copy into jotters):

Resources: film, bingo sheet, question sheet


2/ ACTIVITY

  • You will be watching REBEL TONGUE

  • You will complete the BINGO EXERCISE WHILE WATCHING

  • You will answer the questions after the video has completed, or as homework, accessing the film again on teams.

Rebel tongue is on Clickview, https://online.clickview.co.uk/exchange/videos/47046717/rebel-tongue or an embedded version below (start at 3 minutes in to avoid test card):

REBEL TONGUE COPY.mp4

Get this sheet and play BINGO while you watch the REBEL TONGUE FILM

HOW MANY WORDS DID YOU GET? WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

Task 2. Then answer these questions about the film.

  1. Write a few sentences about what Gary says at the fitba match about Orrie – the Dundee dialect.

  1. What is the first thing you see on the outside of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh?

  1. Fit happened in 1999?

  1. From the census in 2011, how many people in Scotland speak Scots?

  1. Ally Heather asks folk in the streets whether they know Scots words. Which words DID folk ken aboot? Write them down, and what they mean.

  1. IN his visit to the library, Ally finds a wee book written in Mid-Scots (an older version of the language). What was this wee book all about? Name three Scots words from the book.

  1. What does A SAIR DUNT mean? And SCUNNER? If ye dinna ken, find out using an online Scots dictionary or askin someone at home.

  1. What did Ally talk about when he visited the BBC?

  1. IN the older programme about the Scots Language (The Mither Tongue) by Billy Kay (the guy with white hair), he asks wee loons on either side of the Scottish/English border what they called things. Name the differences.

  1. Fit did the Doric speakers in the pub say about Doric – write at least three things.

  1. The old School inspectors book in the library – what did it say about the use of language in school?

  1. The librarian, Tammas Clarke – what does he say about the importance of translations of bairns’ books into Scots?

  1. At the rugby club, the trainer says ken a lot, what does this mean?

  1. Ally visits the Buckie Blethers. Evelyn says that when she was a lassie, she said to a posh customer that she would easy LOWSE THE PINTS. Find out what this means.

  1. What do you think of putting subtitles on the programme about fishermen (Trawlermen)?

  1. What dialect does Cheryl Cole speak?

  1. Why does the professor lady that people in Scotland still say Oot, aboot and toon, instead of Out, about and town?

  1. Glasgow writer Chris McQueer speaks Glasgae Scots. Do you find it easy to understand?

  1. Which Glasgow comedian appears in the film?

  1. What is Ally’s final message of the film?


3/ ANALYSIS

What did you think of the programme?

Why is Scots important?

Has Scots been looked down upon?

How should we think of the Scots language in the future?