Homework: Perfect Paragraph

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Oct 2, 2013

As our lesson was interrupted by a fire alarm on Wednesday, this “Perfect Paragraph” exercise is now due on Friday. That task is simple: Follow the instructions in your book to improve your existing paragraph on the features of language typical of spoken conversations. This is due on Friday

Practise Paragraph

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Sep 25, 2013

Everyday Speech: Samples of your own talk

Posted By Christopher Waugh on Sep 22, 2013

These videos are exerpts of your own spoken conversations for you to use as a source for your transcription. The next step is to transcribe these conversations, ensuring you don’t use text language, but this time write your transcript in full, and add information about the sounds, facial expressions, pauses, interruptions and everything you can of the para-linguistic aspects of the conversation. Glenn and George Kai and David...