Learning Objectives:
Recapping on British News.
To practice how to form and
articulate conversational
language.
To be able to differentiate
formal and informal
language.
Group Activity.
Should the UK bomb Syria?
Identify what conversational language features are used within these clips.
How do they differentiate?
What are
examples of conversational language?
Hilary Benn's Speech in Parliament
Warm up
Group Activity
Create your own formal/informal debate over
the question 'Should the UK Bomb Syria?'
Write bullet points on what various features of conversational language were used during your debate!
One person from each group must summarise what was spoken about during your debate.
Gogglebox
Series 6
Episode 13
Examples:
Dicuss in small groups the various features conversational features used in Gogglebox and in contrast to Parliment.
Complete the table using short bullet points:
Gogglebox
Parliment
- Tag questions
- adjacency pairs
- gestures
- initialism
- filler words
- contractions
- idioms
e.g
Contraction :
isn't
Harsh authoritative tone
Conversational Language
THANK YOU.
Great work today.
Don't forget your handout!
Katie Penn