How would the same car accident be described in over 15 completely different styles of English? What are the differences in vocabulary, grammar and organisational structure? How should I change my voice to read each description? Let’s see how English changes in different situations. Styles presented include: formal and informal English, news reports, an action movie screenplay, an Eminem rap, a romantic novel, a Shakespeare play, a politician making a speech, a stand-up comedian, Liam Neeson in the film Taken, and Luke in an episode of Luke’s English Podcast. PDF transcript available.
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Styles demonstrated in this episode 👇
- An informal letter to a friend
- Literary style
- A stand-up comedy routine
- A police report
- An academic essay
- A tabloid newspaper report
- A broadsheet newspaper report
- A conversational anecdote between friends
- A Hollywood action movie screenplay
- A news report on location
- A child writing a letter to their parents
- An 18th century romantic novel
- Shakespeare
- Eminem
- JRR Tolkein
- Luke’s English Podcast
- Super-intelligent alien computers who have been dispassionately observing the human race for centuries
- A politician making a speech
- Liam Neeson in the film “Taken” (2006)