Text Types: Oral Forms

ORAL FORMS  consultation

 advertising  conversation
 advice (giving)  conversation between lovers
 advice (accepting)  cooking instruction from a live
 announcement at an airport person
 announcement on a bus  cooking show
 announcements  cradle talk
 answering machine  criticism
 apologizing  crying
 appealing  cussing
 applause (encore! Bravo!)  debating
 appreciation (expressing)  defending
 appreciation (accepting)  disapproval (expressing)
 approval (expressing)  discount
 arguing  discussion
 asking for directions  educational TV
 asking for help  elevator gals
 asking questions  emergency calls
 bargaining  encouraging
 begging  evaluation
 blaming  explanation
 boasting  excusing
 book preview, intro  fables
 borrowing money  feedback
 breaking up  flattering
 car navigation  formal and informal
 cartoons (TV) conversations
 ceremonies, religious and  fortune teller
secular  funeral speech
 chant – sports  future telling
 chatting  giving lectures
 checking-in  gossiping
 checking for understanding  greeting
 cheering  grieving
 cheering up  guest speakers
 choosing  hogging
 clarification  humor
 class  instructions
 comedian  insulting
 commanding an animal  interview
 commercial  introducing someone
 complaint  introspection
 concert  inviting
 condolence  invitation (accepting)
 conference  invitation (refusing)
 confession  laughing
 leaving a message  quiz show
 lecture  shows – phone-in
 lying  snoring
 making judgments  rally
 making noise  reconfirmation
 meeting  reflection
 messages  repetition
 monologue  reports and presentations
 movies (action, adventure,  request
animation, comedy, detective,  reservation
documentary, drama, horror,  retell
 historical, heart-warming,  rhymes
instructional, love story,  riddles
musical, mystery, psycho-  role-play
thriller,  sandwichman
 romance, science fiction,  saying farewell
thriller, tragedy  scolding
 music TV  scorekeeper
 myths  screaming
 negation  seeing a doctor at a hospital
 negotiation  self intro
 new movies  shopping
 new released songs  singing
 news report  small talk
 noticing  songs and hymns (gosperl,
 offering jazz, rock, pop, R & B, soul,
 on phone - catch up classic, rap, hip-hop,punk,
 on phone - cheer up  karaoke, heavy metal, funk,
 on phone - complaining country, alternative, enka,
 opera minyo, karaoke, folk, western,
 oral stories and histories  chants, chorus, western)
 ordering  speech
 persuading  speech contest
 phone order  sportscast
 picking up girls / flirting  story telling
 plays and other performances  street musician
 poetry  student-student conversation
 political demonstration  suggestions
 political manifesto  surprise (expressing)
 praising  talk show
 prayer - Buddhist  teacher-student conversation
 prayer - Muslim  teaching
 prayer - Christian  teaching in Class
 preach  teasing
 presidential address  telephone conversations
 promise  telling jokes
 proposal  timer
 quarreling  tour guide
 question  traffic info
 travel arranging  waking talk
 TV drama  warning
 using a megaphone  weather reports
 variety show  word-play
 wake up call
 yelling
Text Types: Written Forms

 Account Book  Instructions and other “how to”

 Adventures  Invitations
 Advertisements  Itinerary
 Bible - trip
 Bill  Journals, diaries and logs
 Biographies and autobiographies  Labels and packaging
 Brochures, pamphlets and  Legends
leaflets - map
 Calendar  Letters, business and personal
 Cards - poison pen letter
- Christmas card - recommendation
- Birthday card - love
- Wedding card - Dear John
- Thank-you card - Message in a bottle
- business card  Lists, notes, personal messages
- score card  Lyrics
 Cartoons  Magazine
 Catalogues - hobbies
 Certificates - sports
- marriage - cooking
- birth - fashion
- death - etc.
- graduation  Maps
 Charts, diagrams, graphs  Menus
 Compositions  Message board
 Date book  Money
 Diagnosis  Mysteries
 Diagram  Myths
 Diary  Name tag/badge
 Dictionary and grammar items  Newspaper and magazine articles
 Drawings - obituary
 E-mail - world news
 Encyclopedia entries - national news
 Essay - local news
 Fables - shopping
- cartoon
 Family Tree
- horoscopes
 Folk tales and legends
- ad
 Forms - sports
 Graffiti - entertainment
 Guest speakers - movie schedule
 Historical fiction - crossword
 Humour - public notices
 Illustrations - economics
 Government Forms  *currency exchange rates
- applications  *stocks
 Information texts - 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