1.

Answer the following questions:

1. What does the type of language used in the society depend on?

Dependant on the culture and customs that are the most prevalent.

2.Has the level of formality to speak properly declined? Why?

In the age of television and the Internet, the need to communicate to the audience at its level has
degraded the level of formality needed in order to speak effectively

3.Has the professional world been damaged by the informal language?

it has left the professional world virtually unaffected.

4.Is the use of the formal language disappearing?

Yes, the art of speaking formally is fading fast.

2.Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as each of the following:

1.Delicate:

2.Inexistent:

3.Kind:

4.Common: standard

5.To disappear: fading

6.To catch hold of:

2.Complete the following fax:

TO: FROM:

FAX: PAGES:

PHONE: DATE:

RE: CC:

1.Match the expressions written in informal language with those in formal language:

a thing, something

a) possibly, perhaps
stuff

b) approximately, somewhat

a bit

c) a team member, a researcher, an assistant someone

d) materials, resources, a substance

some kind of

e) to some extent, to some degree, slightly

kind of

f) a particular

somehow

g) by an unspecified means, in a certain way

maybe

h) a feature, an object, a device, a component

4.Write a formal letter about any topic using the expressions you know. (About 190 words).