Define the genre, the functional style and its specific characteristics in the following extracts.

1.One hundred rural primary schools in Norfolk will close following a decision by Norfolk county council yesterday not to keep such schools with fewer than 60 pupils. (Daily Telegraph, January 28, 1996)

2.Tsiolkovsky calculated the amount of fuel a rocket needs to break through the resistance of earth's atmosphere. He even calculated the angle at which the rocket must take off and laid down that its guidance and control must be fully automatic. (The History of Space Flight)

3.Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,

Upstairs and downstairs in his night gown,

Rapping at the windows, crying through the clock

«Are the children all in bed, for it's past eight o'clock?»

4. Bob: I think I'd much prefer to go in for teaching.
Jane: Jolly good!

Bob: Because ... er ... well, you get long holidays.

5. The time has almost come, ladies and gentlemen, when the Government must ask you – the electors of Great Britain – to renew its mandate. It is as a member of the Government that I stand before you this evening, and the task I have set myself is to review,many things which the Government has achieved since the last General Election and to outline the path which we hope to follow in the future when, as I am confident will be the case, you return us to office with an even greater parliamentary majority.

6. Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,

Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

Are heaped for the beloved's bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,

Love itself shall slumber on. (P.B. Shelly)

7. My Lord,

I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of «The World», that two papers, in which my «Dictionary» is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to acknowledge. (Sam. Johnson).

8. When the body is comfortable, the mind travels at ease, too. That's the philosophy behind World Business Class, from KLM and Northwest Airlines. So we added nearly 50% more legroom and recline for more personal space than any other worldwide airline. Plus personal videos, innovative menus and other amenities designed to help you stretch out and relax. Enjoy more comfort to more of the world. Call your travel agent, KLM, or Northwest Airlines. (Time, June 19, 1995)

9. Dear Sirs,

In connection with your request to start discharging the above cargo first by pumping out bottom layer into barges and then to go on with pumping the rest of the cargo into shore tanks I wish to point out the following. (...)

10.Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked...

11. You know the commands: «Do not murder; Do not commit adultery; Do not steal; Do not bear false witness; Do not cheat; Honour your father and mother».

11. Use the intensifier with each of the adjectives. The first two have been done as an example:

1. absolutely fantastic; 2. pretty reasonable;
3. … wonderful; 4. … good;

5. … unbearable; 6. ... easy;
7. … brilliant; 8. … lucky;

9. ... devastated; 10. ... crowded;

11. ... amazing; 12. … interesting;

13. … magnificent; 14. … expensive.

a) quite; b) very; c) totally; d) amazingly; e) just; f) incredibly; g) absolutely; h) terribly; i) really; j) quite.

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