Table of ContentsTitle Score

1 Phrasal verbs

2 Reading between the lines: Contextual meanings

3 Ambiguous headlinese

4 Language Constraints

5 Influences on language

6 Fashion cliques

7 Commentary

8 Humor in Ads explained

9 Using language to describe something in exaggeration

10 Gender bias in language

11 Humans of Al Jabr

Javier F IrsanG12 English Compilations

Stand-in to substitute someone’s job temporarily Nauval is a stand-in player in his Dota 2 team

Stand down to leave an important position/job He has decided to stand down after fifteen years as

managing director.Stand up to be in an erect position Audience, please stand up

Javi

1. People who park illegally will be towed

2. People who park illegally will not be towed

If you park here, your vehicle will be towed

Javi Drunk gets nine months in violin case

A drunk person stuck in a violin case for 9 months

A drunk person sentenced 9 month due to his/her involvement with a violin case

Select from the given three settings given in the table prompt and develop the examples and constraints in using the language.

You may also indicate another setting not listed in the table.

You will have to provide three (3) constraints and three (3) examples to go with each of them.

Javi Soccer, Saturday, afternoon

When we arrived, usually we greet otherson the changing rooms. The topics that we talked are limited. Mainly are about the upcoming games and the strategy.On the pitch, players greet others with respect like “Hope you have a great game and good luck”. During the game, some players can/will protest to other player or referee with bad/improper informal words like “hey ref! he fouled me you *****” or “******* diving”In the end players from either team say sorry to each other’s like “Hey, sorry man. Good game well played there”

Very InformalUsage of bad language in certain conditionMale dominatedFormal towards official

Javi Geographic Location

Different location in the world, influence the way people speak and write. Some places has a really good gramatical and structure while some places not. Each places has its different way to say a word and has its own modified words. For example:

1. Singaporean, due to its diverse ethnicity, the way they speak and write are full of vocabulary errors and also grammatical errors like Wah, so ex lah. 5 dollas can? (Wow, it is so expensive. Can you sell it for 5 dollars?)

2. Australia and other British invaded country mainly use BrE (British English) with some tweaks to the proper language with their local language. Australian use (G’day mate) in everyday language. Using BrE accent with some influence of local language

3. Irish and Scottish speaks really fast and hard to understand. Mainly using BrE because their location near England. But some pronunciations are different. They pronounce Wednesday to (We-Nes-Di)

Javi

Cosplayer

Teens nowadays like to dress up following their favorite character in a comic or animes. Mostly cosplayers uses costumes from famous or trending animes in that times like Naruto, Hatsune Miku, Dragon ball and many others. Or they use cute characters in the anime like the platelets from Hataraku no Saibo, Asuna from Sword Art Online, Emilia from Re Zero and many more.They are willing to sew their own costumes, spend a lot of money just to look exactly the same.

What makes a good commentary?

While no two commentaries on a text should be the same and while each should reflect the student’s own interpretation and ‘take’ on the text, there are key skills that everyone should apply, as indicated by the success criteria on page 6.

Now read this task and the passage that follows it:

1 The passage below describes the writer’s experience in Burma when he was serving as a police officer at a time when the British ruled the country. He has been ordered to deal with a possible threat posed by an elephant. (a) Comment on the style and language of the passage.

See the pdf book on google drive for an example of commentary. PAGE 16 OF THE PDF BOOK.

You may comment on the form, the target audience, the discourse, semantics (meaning of words), morphology (the structure of words), lexicals (the choice of vocabulary),

Javi (Lexical)The choices of vocabulary in the passage above is made by a professional writer. I can say that because there are words that are not mainly heard in common ears. This indicates that the writer is experienced and professional. One of the words is ought, squeamish

Target audience is for teens and above which has sufficient knowledge to understand the context of the text.