Comparing different modes
Students compare examples of English in use, including various written and spoken examples, and analyse them according to a scale.
Goals
- Familiarise students with looking at examples of real English language in use.
- Analyse examples of real English language in use.
- Consider several features of English language in use, including standard-ness and formality.
Lesson Plan
In this task, students will need to look at a range of data. Some of the data will be from written texts, some will come from blended mode texts, and other data will be drawn from spoken conversations. Students are also presented with a continuum of features, from planned to unplanned, standard to non-standard, formal to informal, and distant to friendly.
Each slide in the Activity page in the right hand menu presents an example of English in use, drawn from our corpus. Each slide also presents each continuum of features. You can move the circle-shaped marker from one end of each continuum to the other so as to mark your students' decisions on each continuum.
For each text, students should think about where they would place each text on each continuum of features. For example, on the dimension which has planned at one end and unplanned on the other, they will need to think about how planned or unplanned the extract appears to be.
To decide on this, they’ll need to look at the extract and think about the type of language that’s used and the features that might indicate whether it’s been prepared beforehand or just written or spoken without much planning.
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Sales pitch to live audience
I represent Team Venture and we’ve put together an app called Ampi Apps. Ampi Apps is big, Ampi Apps is bold and Ampi Apps is noisy.
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Academic writing
The conquest of Italy was certainly not a process of enslavement. It was attacks by their neighbours, or the fear of such attacks, that gave early Rome the pretexts or motives for reducing them to submission; in addition, by confiscating some of their lands, the Romans were able to satisfy the land-hunger of their own peasantry. Despite such confiscations, Roman policy was on the whole conciliatory.
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Casual conversation
You know, one holiday we actually went to Turkey. Uhm, well this is about twelve, fifteen, twenty years ago now, I suppose.
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Personal letter
How are you? I've been trying to get in touch for months, I have written about three letters so far with no replies & guess what, I now know why.
I've been sending them to 72 St Quintins Ave. When did you move? In the letter before last I told you Andy had been made redundant, in the last letter about 5 weeks ago I told you he had a job in Swindon. I don't suppose you ever got them though.
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Voicemail message
Thank you for calling XYZ Company. We are unable to take your call at this time. Please leave a detailed message including your name, phone number, and the reason you called and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Goodbye.
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Facebook status update
Katy Renton has just been told she looks 'very tired'. Why thank you, kind sir.....
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Prepared speech
Thank you.
Hello Dublin.
Hello Ireland.
My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas and I've come home to find the apostrophe we lost somewhere along the way.
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Friendly |
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