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Continue Activity 6 below
• Add the title and topic you discussed in Activity 2. Look at the example.

For our interview

Example:
TV segment and show: Chinese New Year.
Celebrations Begin in China
TV News broadcast
Chinese New Year celebrations
Topic:
Category or genre: Cultural

Purpose: To inform people about the New Year celebrations in China
Addressee: Teenagers and adults

7. Based on the TV shows discussed in Activity 2,and with
your teacher's help, exchange opinions about the visual session 3
resources used, the settings and the roles of the people TRACKS
appearing onscreen. Listen to the program and the 25 and 26
commentaries on the tracks.
Example:

They use banners to show which They use credits to put Remember
event they are referring to: “Chinese the name of people Speech register refers
New Year. Celebrations Begin in China”. appearing onscreen and to the way we adapt
where they are from. language according

to the situation and
8. According to the program you mentioned in Activity 2, people we interact Visual resources. Speech register
do the following: with. In mass media,
presenters and hosts
will usually be formal
• Check what the participants say (at least two of them)
(clear pronunciation,
and how they say it. conventional
• Make a chart to write notes about the way they talk. grammar) while
people appearing
Look at the example.
on screen (or actors)
For our interview will have their own
particularities of
pronunciation and
Example: grammar.
COMPARATIvE ChART

Reporter Sun Xiantang, Beijing resident
He uses verbs such as “gathered” and He uses contractions in several cases. He also used

“accompany”, she's speaking formally an expression to shout when he said, “The crowds
while she’s presenting the information. are great!” I think he’s with his friends, so he’s
talking in a light-hearted tone.

9. Comment on your partner’s and your own strengths in understanding what each
participant said. Now, comment on what was the most complex to understand.

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