1. Margaret : Where’s your glass, Barbara?

2. Barbara : It’s on the bar

3. Martin : Margaret! Barbara! Come into the garden!
4. Martha and Charles are dancing in the dark
5. Margaret : In the garden? What a laugh!
6. Barbara : So they are! They’re dancing on the grass!
7. Margaret : They’re dancing under the stars!
8. Martin : And Arnold’s playing his guitar.
9. Barbara : Doesn’t Martha look smart!
10. Margaret : Look at Charles! What a marvellous dancer!
11. Barbara : Ah! Let’s take a photograph of Martha and Charles!
12. Martin : We can’t! It’s too dark!

 GENRE ANALYSIS
a. Text type : Descriptive
b. Social Function : to describe something
c. Topic : garden party

d. Participants : three persons (Barbara, Margaret, Martin)

e. Setting : informal situation, in the garden

f. Generic Structure
No. of Utterances Generic Structure
Identification
Description 1
Description 2

Description 3

 LANGUAGE FEATURES
 Third person
 Present Tense Forms of verb
 Adjective
 Adverb
 ANALYSIS SPEECH EVENTS
a. Setting
b. Participants
c. Ends
d. Acts
 e. Key
f. Instrument
g. Norm
h. Genre
 ANALYSIS ACT, MOVE, AND TURN
N Adjencancy
Participants Utterances Turn Move Acts Events
O Pairs
1 Mg Where’s your glass, Barbara? initiating
2 B It’s on the bar response
3 Mt Margaret! Barbara! Come into the
garden!
initiating
4 Martha and Charles are dancing in the
dark
5 Mg In the garden?
response
6 What a laugh!
7 B So they are!
initiating
8 They’re dancing on the grass!
9 Mg They’re dancing under the stars!
10 Mt And Arnold’s playing his guitar.
11 B Doesn’t Martha look smart!
12 Mg Look at Charles!
13 What a marvellous dancer!
14 B Ah! Let’s take a photograph of Martha
and Charles!
15 Mt We can’t!
16 It’s too dark!