Text Types: Oral Forms
ORAL FORMS
 advertising
 advice (giving)
 advice (accepting)
 announcement at an airport
 announcement on a bus
 announcements
 answering machine
 apologizing
 appealing
 applause (encore! Bravo!)
 appreciation (expressing)
 appreciation (accepting)
 approval (expressing)
 arguing
 asking for directions
 asking for help
 asking questions
 bargaining
 begging
 blaming
 boasting
 book preview, intro
 borrowing money
 breaking up
 car navigation
 cartoons (TV)
 ceremonies, religious and secular
 chant – sports
 chatting
 checking-in
 checking for understanding
 cheering
 cheering up
 choosing
 clarification
 class
 comedian
 commanding an animal
 commercial
 complaint
 concert
 condolence
 conference
 confession
 consultation
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conversation
conversation between lovers
cooking instruction from a live
person
cooking show
cradle talk
criticism
crying
cussing
debating
defending
disapproval (expressing)
discount
discussion
educational TV
elevator gals
emergency calls
encouraging
evaluation
explanation
excusing
fables
feedback
flattering
formal and informal
conversations
fortune teller
funeral speech
future telling
giving lectures
gossiping
greeting
grieving
guest speakers
hogging
humor
instructions
insulting
interview
introducing someone
introspection
inviting
invitation (accepting)
invitation (refusing)
laughing
leaving a message
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lecture
lying
making judgments
making noise
meeting
messages
monologue
movies (action, adventure,
animation, comedy, detective,
documentary, drama, horror,
historical, heart-warming,
instructional, love story,
musical, mystery, psychothriller,
romance, science fiction, thriller,
tragedy
music TV
myths
negation
negotiation
new movies
new released songs
news report
noticing
offering
on phone - catch up
on phone - cheer up
on phone - complaining
opera
oral stories and histories
ordering
persuading
phone order
picking up girls / flirting
plays and other performances
poetry
political demonstration
political manifesto
praising
prayer - Buddhist
prayer - Muslim
prayer - Christian
preach
presidential address
promise
proposal
quarreling
question
quiz show
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shows – phone-in
snoring
rally
reconfirmation
reflection
repetition
reports and presentations
request
reservation
retell
rhymes
riddles
role-play
sandwichman
saying farewell
scolding
scorekeeper
screaming
seeing a doctor at a hospital
self intro
shopping
singing
small talk
songs and hymns (gosperl, jazz,
rock, pop, R & B, soul, classic,
rap, hip-hop,punk,
karaoke, heavy metal, funk,
country, alternative, enka,
minyo, karaoke, folk, western,
chants, chorus, western)
speech
speech contest
sportscast
story telling
street musician
student-student conversation
suggestions
surprise (expressing)
talk show
teacher-student conversation
teaching
teaching in Class
teasing
telephone conversations
telling jokes
timer
tour guide
traffic info
travel arranging
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TV drama
using a megaphone
variety show
wake up call
yelling
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waking talk
warning
weather reports
word-play
Text Types: Written Forms
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Account Book
Adventures
Advertisements
Bible
Bill
Biographies and autobiographies
Brochures, pamphlets and
leaflets
Calendar
Cards
- Christmas card
- Birthday card
- Wedding card
- Thank-you card
- business card
- score card
Cartoons
Catalogues
Certificates
- marriage
- birth
- death
- graduation
Charts, diagrams, graphs
Compositions
Date book
Diagnosis
Diagram
Diary
Dictionary and grammar items
Drawings
E-mail
Encyclopedia entries
Essay
Fables
Family Tree
Folk tales and legends
Forms
Graffiti
Guest speakers
Historical fiction
Humour
Illustrations
Government Forms
- applications
Information texts
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Instructions and other “how to”
Invitations
Itinerary
- trip
Journals, diaries and logs
Labels and packaging
Legends
- map
Letters, business and personal
- poison pen letter
- recommendation
- love
- Dear John
- Message in a bottle
Lists, notes, personal messages
Lyrics
Magazine
- hobbies
- sports
- cooking
- fashion
- etc.
Maps
Menus
Message board
Money
Mysteries
Myths
Name tag/badge
Newspaper and magazine articles
- obituary
- world news
- national news
- local news
- shopping
- cartoon
- horoscopes
- ad
- sports
- entertainment
- movie schedule
- crossword
- public notices
- economics
*currency exchange rates
*stocks
- personals
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- 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