WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE AND REGISTER

Here you have the sources I used to prepare your handout on correspondence and register:

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Identifying Formal and Informal Vocabulary by Hanh Nguyen on Scribd

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Other interesting links:
http://www.engvid.com/english-resource/formal-informal-english/

A SPEECH

IB SPEECH

THE TASK

• Write a speech to present in class (about 400 words) about the following topic:

The influence of media and new technologies in our health:
- Beauty/diets/concept of perfection
- Strange diseases and how media/social networks can help
- Healthy habits 
- Teenagers main health concerns
etc.

• Include visual aids
• Link to target language culture

- Start with:

SPEECH TITLE: ________________________________________________________

WHO IS IT ADRESSED TO?  _____________________________________________

PURPOSE: ____________________________________________________________

MAIN MESSAGE: ______________________________________________________

SOME EXAMPLES OF POPULAR SPEECHES:

Jared Leto receiving his Oscar:





Lupita Nyong'o about beauty:






Baz Lehrman "Wear Sunscreen":




Barack Obama 1st Afroamerican president:




Al Gore: "An inconvenient Truth"



Emma Watson at the UN: gender equality

BLOG/DIARY ENTRY

Diary/Blog Entries by gloria_alonso9302

ARTICLE

This is the new text type we're going to practise:

Article

SESSION 9

Hi dear students!
Today we start studying the different text types you are going to find/write in your IB tests.
Here you have some notes on how to write an ESSAY:

Essay

TASK: Write a draft (only a list of ideas within the structure) and then an essay on the following topic: Learning English seems to be a must nowadays but aren't we risking our cultural identity when learning a second language.

NOTE: If you want to do extra practice, you can tackle one of the two examples of exam compositions on page 10 (3rd section) of your dossier.