Functional Styles.

1. The style of social and political writing.

- Publicistic style

- Essay

- The newspaper style. Technical registers.

2. Colloquial styles.

3. Practical tasks:

a) Analyse extracts in Ex-s V.A.Kukharenko "A Book of Practice in Stylistics", p.p. 115-120; V.A.Kukharenko, Seminars, p.p. 115-117, 120-126;

b) Look up a newspaper and choose an item, headlines, articles;

c) Write a paragraph or two in publicistic,colloquial styles.

4. Language in Use.

Identity this text:

1. Do you think it was spoken or written?

2. Would you describe it as formal or informal?

3. Where would you read or hear it?

4. Why might you read or listen to it?

5. Is it a beginning, a middle,an ending or a complete text?

I'm glad to meet you. My name's Harry Kane. Bill been locking after you all right? I asked him to see that you stayed until I got back. So gald you could spare the time. What are we drinking? Whisky? Let's fill you up.You and your wife tun that little boutique down the road, don’t you? Funny we've never met, living so close, eh? Here you are.Got one, Bill? Where's your glass? This one? Here you are.

Language focus.

1. Which auxiliary verb have been omitted from questions in the text?

2. Which questions in the text are asking for information and which are simply asking for confirmation?

3. Which of the information questions could be answered yes or no?

Identify this text:

Finally I broke away.I had overslept.I was hungry, and I had provisions to buy for my trip on the Lake Van Express, which had a reputation for running out of food and arriving at the Iranian border as much as ten days late. Food was on my mind for another reason. I had intended to sample some dishes mentioned in Nagel. These names tempted me, and, as I would be leaving on the afternoon train, this was last chance to try them. I had drawn up a menu for myself.

Language focus.

How many different periods of time are referred to in the text?

Language in use.

Identify the text:

I don't believe this is happening. He's actually thrown his packet over the net and now he's running up to the umpire's box. He's shouting at the umpire and pointing at the line judge. He's obviously very angry about the last decision. The crowd are starting to boo and hise. The umpire is standing up now and shaking his head quite vigorously. In twenty years I've never seen such unsportsmanlike behaviour. What do you think of it, Brian?

Language focus.

What is the relationship in time between the text and the events being described?

Language in use.

Identify the text:

When water is taken from the reservoir it goes through two stages consists in some cases of allowing water to sink through a layer of coarse sand, which traps the larger impyrities. Secondary purification allows water but not solide to sink through a layer of fine sand. Having passed through these two stages/the water is then passed through a coverd tank where cholorme kills any bacteria that may be left. The water is then clean and ready to be pumped into the main supply.

Language focus.

1. Which is important in the text: water and what happens to it, or the people who are responsible for the purification process?

2. Do we know what takes the water from the reservoir or what pumps it into the main supply? Do we need to know?

3. How many verbs in the text are in the passive voice?

Language in use.

1. Do you think it was spoken or written?

2. Would you describe it as formal or informal?

3. Where would you read or hear it?

4. Why might you read or listen to it?

5. Is it a beginning, a middleman ending or a complete text?

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