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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify the various communicative styles.

2. Identify various situations in which different
communicative style is appropriate to use.
3. Create short conversations using different communicative
styles in various situations.

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 REVIEW
Normally conditional sentences are
called conditionals.
These sentences usually contain the
conjunction IF. Sometimes they are called ‘if
clauses’.

Example: If you do well in the exams. I’ll buy you a gift.

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 REVIEW
The previous lessons help
you connect your exploration on
some important ideas on modals
and conditionals which lead to
self-enhancement.

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 ACTIVITY
PICTURE TALK

1. Who are talking in the picture?

What do you think are they talking
about?

2. What do you think is the

communicative style used in this
conversation?
 ACTIVITY
PICTURE TALK

1. Who are talking in the picture?

What do you think are they talking
about?

2. What communicative style is used

in there conversation?
ACTIVITY
DESCRIBE ME!

Describe what the picture

shows.
ACTIVITY
DESCRIBE ME!

Describe what the picture

shows.
 ANALYSIS

Read and understand each dialogue. Answer the questions

below.

A: Ramon, do you accept Tina as your lawful wife?

B: Yes, I do.

1. Who are the people talking in the dialogue?

2. What do you think is the situation?
3. What have noticed with the speech used? How about the
language used?
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 ANALYSIS

Read and understand each dialogue. Answer the questions

below.

A: Good morning, Doctor, can I ask something?

B: Certainly, how can I help you?

1. Who are the speakers?

2. What do you think is the purpose of the patient?
3. Do you think the doctor is the right person to consult to?

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Communicative
Style
Communicative Style also called as
speech style is a form of language that the
speaker utilized and is characterized by the
level of formality. We use different
communicative style based on various
situations and based on the people we are
talking to.
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 There are different types of communicative style
according to Joos.
Martin Joos (1907–1978) was a linguist and German
professor. He spent most of his career at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison, and also served at the University of Toronto
and as a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, the
University of Belgrade, and the University of Edinburgh. During
World War II, Joos was a cryptologist for the US Signal Security
Agency. The War Department honored him with a Distinguished
Service citation in recognition of his work developing
communication systems. After the war he returned to the
University of Wisconsin, eventually serving as the chairman of
the Department of German.

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 Intimate Style
It is used by people who are very close and know each other quite
well. Participation of both speaker and listener is free and easy. Economy
of words, with a high incidence of significant nonverbal communication,
such as gesture, facial expression, eye contact and so on is depicted.

Examples: Couple talking about their future plans,

Family sharing ideas, very close friends sharing secrets, etc.

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 Casual Style
It is a style used by friends and insiders who have something to share.
Just like the intimate style, there is also a free and easy participation of both
speaker and listener. It uses a general language.
Casual language is appropriately used in situations where speech is
not prepared and improvised. It is usually used when you communicate to
people you know or when you want to know someone on a personal level.

Examples: phone calls, everyday conversation with friends,

chats, etc.

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 Formal Style
It is considered as a straight forward speech. This is
a speech style in which the speaker prepared his speech
before hand, sentences are well structured, coherent and
logically sequenced.

Examples: Announcements, SONA, welcome addresses, etc.

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 Frozen Style
It is the most formal communicative style. This is
usually used during respectful events and ceremonies. This
is generally used in very formal setting and does not require
any feed back from the audience. It is also know as fixed
speech.

Examples: Pledges, anthems, marriage ceremonies,

laws, etc.

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 Consultative Style
It is a semi-formal communication. It is speech style wherein
the speaker does not usually plan what he wants to say.
Two defining features
a. The speaker supplies background information.
b. The listener participates contiuously.

Examples: regular classroom discussions, doctor-patient, etc.

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 Practice Exercise
Here are some phrases that describes the five types of communicative styles.
Tell in the class in which right category they belong.

1. Simple greeting with those you know.

2. It does not require any feed back from the audience.
3. Usually done in private conversations.
4. The speaker supplies background information.
5. The sentences are well structured, coherent, and logically sequenced.

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Practice Exercise
Here are some phrases that describes the five types of
communicative styles. Tell in the class in which right category they belong.

Correct answers:
1. Casual Style
2. Frozen Style
3. Intimate Style
4. Consultative style
5. Formal style

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 APPLICATION
Activity: COMIC STRIP
Make use of the concept you learned from this lesson. Create a comic strip depicting the
situations given below. Use the dialogues to further elaborate it. Consider the given rubric for your guide .

1. You happen to see your friends in elementary and you stop for a while and had a chitchat.

Criteria Score
Comic strip has at least 2 characters
(5 points)
Comic strip has dialogues depicting the given
situations (5 points)

Comic strip is comprehensive (5 points)

Comic strip is neat and well organized (5

points)

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GENERALIZATION

Our lesson this morning was all about

Communicative Style. There are five types of
speech style namely:
1. Intimate Style
2. Casual Style
3. Formal Style
4. Frozen Style
5. Consultative Style.

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 ASSIGNMENT

Think of an instance in your life where you use intimate and casual
style. Jot it down in the table below. Then write the lesson you
learned from that conversation.

Experiences (Intimate, Casual) Lessons Learned

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Thank You!

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