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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

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