Text Types: Oral Forms - University of Alberta
Text Types: Oral Forms
ORAL FORMS
• advertising
• advice (giving)
• advice (accepting)
• announcement at an airport
• announcement on a bus
• announcements
• answering machine
• apologizing
• appealing
• applause (encore! Bravo!)
• appreciation (expressing)
• appreciation (accepting)
• approval (expressing)
• arguing
• asking for directions
• asking for help
• asking questions
• bargaining
• begging
• blaming
• boasting
• book preview, intro
• borrowing money
• breaking up
• car navigation
• cartoons (TV)
• ceremonies, religious and secular
• chant – sports
• chatting
• checking-in
• checking for understanding
• cheering
• cheering up
• choosing
• clarification
• class
• comedian
• commanding an animal
• commercial
• complaint
• concert
• condolence
• conference
• confession
• consultation
• conversation
• conversation between lovers
• cooking instruction from a live person
• cooking show
• cradle talk
• criticism
• crying
• cussing
• debating
• defending
• disapproval (expressing)
• discount
• discussion
• educational TV
• elevator gals
• emergency calls
• encouraging
• evaluation
• explanation
• excusing
• fables
• feedback
• flattering
• formal and informal conversations
• fortune teller
• funeral speech
• future telling
• giving lectures
• gossiping
• greeting
• grieving
• guest speakers
• hogging
• humor
• instructions
• insulting
• interview
• introducing someone
• introspection
• inviting
• invitation (accepting)
• invitation (refusing)
• laughing
• leaving a message
• lecture
• lying
• making judgments
• making noise
• meeting
• messages
• monologue
• movies (action, adventure, animation, comedy, detective, documentary, drama, horror,
• historical, heart-warming, instructional, love story, musical, mystery, psycho-thriller,
• romance, science fiction, thriller, tragedy
• music TV
• myths
• negation
• negotiation
• new movies
• new released songs
• news report
• noticing
• offering
• on phone - catch up
• on phone - cheer up
• on phone - complaining
• opera
• oral stories and histories
• ordering
• persuading
• phone order
• picking up girls / flirting
• plays and other performances
• poetry
• political demonstration
• political manifesto
• praising
• prayer - Buddhist
• prayer - Muslim
• prayer - Christian
• preach
• presidential address
• promise
• proposal
• quarreling
• question
• quiz show
• shows – phone-in
• snoring
• rally
• reconfirmation
• reflection
• repetition
• reports and presentations
• request
• reservation
• retell
• rhymes
• riddles
• role-play
• sandwichman
• saying farewell
• scolding
• scorekeeper
• screaming
• seeing a doctor at a hospital
• self intro
• shopping
• singing
• small talk
• songs and hymns (gosperl, jazz, rock, pop, R & B, soul, classic, rap, hip-hop,punk,
• karaoke, heavy metal, funk, country, alternative, enka, minyo, karaoke, folk, western,
• chants, chorus, western)
• speech
• speech contest
• sportscast
• story telling
• street musician
• student-student conversation
• suggestions
• surprise (expressing)
• talk show
• teacher-student conversation
• teaching
• teaching in Class
• teasing
• telephone conversations
• telling jokes
• timer
• tour guide
• traffic info
• travel arranging
• TV drama
• using a megaphone
• variety show
• wake up call
• waking talk
• warning
• weather reports
• word-play
• yelling
Text Types: Written Forms
• Account Book
• Adventures
• Advertisements
• Bible
• Bill
• Biographies and autobiographies
• Brochures, pamphlets and leaflets
• Calendar
• Cards
- Christmas card
- Birthday card
- Wedding card
- Thank-you card
- business card
- score card
• Cartoons
• Catalogues
• Certificates
- marriage
- birth
- death
- graduation
• Charts, diagrams, graphs
• Compositions
• Date book
• Diagnosis
• Diagram
• Diary
• Dictionary and grammar items
• Drawings
• E-mail
• Encyclopedia entries
• Essay
• Fables
• Family Tree
• Folk tales and legends
• Forms
• Graffiti
• Guest speakers
• Historical fiction
• Humour
• Illustrations
• Government Forms
- applications
• Information texts
• Instructions and other “how to”
• Invitations
• Itinerary
- trip
• Journals, diaries and logs
• Labels and packaging
• Legends
- map
• Letters, business and personal
- poison pen letter
- recommendation
- love
- Dear John
- Message in a bottle
• Lists, notes, personal messages
• Lyrics
• Magazine
- hobbies
- sports
- cooking
- fashion
- etc.
• Maps
• Menus
• Message board
• Money
• Mysteries
• Myths
• Name tag/badge
• Newspaper and magazine articles
- obituary
- world news
- national news
- local news
- shopping
- cartoon
- horoscopes
- ad
- sports
- entertainment
- movie schedule
- crossword
- public notices
- economics
• *currency exchange rates
• *stocks
- personals
- headlines
- T.V.
- radio
- weather
- editorials
• News reports
• Non-fiction chapter books
• Novel
• Pamphlet
• Photographs
• Picture books
• Pictures
• Plays
• Poetry
- poem
• Poster
• Prints
• Programs
• Questionnaires
• Reader theatre
• Recipes
• Receipt
• Reports and manuals
• Resume
• Rhymes
• Riddles
• Role-play
• Script
• Short stories and novels
• Signature
• Signs, notices and announcements
• Stories
• Sub-titles
• Summary
• Symbols
• Telephone book
• Test and exams
• Tattoo
• Textbook articles
• Tickets, timetables and schedules
- train
- bus
- plane
• Thesaurus
• Travel log
• Warning
• Web page
• Word play
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