GROUP

3Formal and
informal
words
 Hello, we are group 3.
Today we will talk about
formal and informal
words
1 Introduction

2 Formal
words

3 Informal
Table
words
of
4 Transitions: Informal and
Formal Words: content
5 Example
s
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Introduction
: 1 HOÀNG NGHĨA
HUY

2 NGUYỄN NHẬT
LINH

3 ĐẶNG THỐNG
HƯNG

4 VÕ PHAN TRỌNG
HƯNG

5 ĐƯỜNG VŨ CẨM
TÚ
6 NGUYỄN NHÂN
VƯƠNG
 FORMA
L
WORDS
We use formal language in situations that
are serious or that involve people we don’t
know well. Informal language is more
1 Learned/ scholarly
commonly used in situations that are more
words:
relaxed and involve people we know well.

2 Archaic and obsolete

words

3
Professional Terminology
 Words used in scientific prose with dry, matter-of-
fact flavour
Pay
attention!!
(Comprise, compile, experimental, conclusive,
heterogeneous...)

"Officialese" words of official, bureaucratic

language
!
(assist-help, endeavour-try, proceed-go,
approximately-about, sufficient-enough, attired-dressed, inquire- There are 3 more types in
ask...) learned/ schollarly word that
you can easily ignore.

Words in descriptive fiction (literary): mostly

polysyllabic words drawn from the Romance
languages:
(solitude, sentiment, fascination, fastidiousness, facetiousness,
delusion, meditation, felicity, elusive, cordial, illusionary...)

Words of poetic diction with a lofty, highly-

sometimes archaic, colouring: flown,
(Alas!, realms, constancy,
doth...)
 INFORMA
L WORDS
- Informal language is often used in spoken
writing or everyday communication contexts.
Colloquial words The sentences used have a simple and concise
1 structure, expressing more intimacy with
acquaintances, family, friends. This language
can also be used to write letters and emails
to the above subjects.

2 Slan
g

3 Dialect words/word
group
EXAMPLES
:
morn, head over
heels (in
moon love)
biology, cool
semantics, (beautiful)

pragmatics y'all (you all)

Neverthele bloody, damn
FORMAL INFORMAL
ss it
WORDS WORDS
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