How would the same car accident be described in over 15 completely different styles of English? 🚗 📄 What are the differences in vocabulary, grammar and organisational structure? How should I change my voice to read each description? Let's see how English changes in different situations. Styles presented include: formal and informal English, news reports, an action movie screenplay, an Eminem rap, a romantic novel, a Shakespeare play, a politician making a speech, a stand-up comedian, Liam Neeson in the film Taken, and Luke in an episode of Luke's English Podcast. PDF transcript available.
Episode page (with PDF transcript) https://wp.me/p4IuUx-sQ8
0:00:00 Introduction
0:09:24 An informal letter to a friend
0:13:12 Literary style
0:17:05 A stand-up comedy routine
0:21:40 A police report
0:25:54 An academic essay
0:32:29 A tabloid newspaper report
0:37:23 A broadsheet newspaper report
0:40:49 A conversational anecdote between friends
0:44:47 A Hollywood action movie screenplay
0:49:05 A news report on location
0:51:43 A child writing a letter to their parents
0:53:26 An 18th century romantic novel
0:57:41 Shakespeare
1:02:23 Eminem
1:06:50 JRR Tolkein
1:10:44 Luke's English Podcast
1:15:33 Super-intelligent alien computers who have been dispassionately observing the human race for centuries
1:20:51 A politician making a speech
1:27:06 Liam Neeson in the film "Taken" (2006)