Text Types: Oral Forms



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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