Thursday, 17 February 2011

Your task:

Write a comment on this post, comparing the way Bush speaks at the G8 summit with the way he spoke in his 9/11 speech.

The Differences Between Formal and Informal Speech

Task 1:
In the device below, brainstorm the ways in which unplanned (informal) speech will be different from planned (formal) speech:


How is unplanned (informal)speech different from planned speech?... at AnswerGarden.ch.

Task 2:
Watch the following video and listen to the informal (unplanned) conversation between George Bush and Tony Blair. Using the techniques from the sheet we used last week (download here) annotate the features of their conversation onto your copy of the transcript.



Task 3:
Complete this comparison chart to explain the key differences between the conversation above and this speech from last week: