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Task Five
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a. The text is a celebrity interview in a popular magazine. Identify five features of the text that are characteristic of its genre. Give one example of each feature you identify.
Do not include more than one feature of layout.
b. Look at the extracts from the text.
i. Comment on the question forms in bold.
ii. Comment on the features of connected speech in the phrases in bold.
· Do you enjoy cooking? (line 5)
· it’s all showbiz isn’t it? (line 8)
· What food reminds you of your childhood? (lines 59-60)
c. Comment on the form and use of the phrases in bold as they are used in the text.
· It’s a bit artistic (line 6)
· I’m a pretty good dessert guy (line 25)
· It’s really kinda weird (lines 28-29)
d. Look at the three relative clauses in bold in the following sentences from the text. Comment on the use of the relative pronoun and the relative clause in each case.
There are desserts that my mum used to make that take me back, like tapioca pudding, which is yummy. (lines 61-64)
The first thing I think when I have guests is “What can I fix them?” (lines 74-76)

Text is based on Jimmy Osmond, Somerfield Magazine, Feb 09, PSP Rare Publishing, p73.
Write your answers in your answer booklet.
6.1 Guideline Answer
a features of a celebrity interview in a popular magazine Layout (NB: only one of these was allowed)
· Picture
· Title/heading
· Different fonts / bolding for questions/non-bold for answers
Organisation
Organisation structure
i.e. Brief introduction (who Jimmy Osmond is) followed by rest of article, with promotion at end (for Jimmy’s show)
Question and answer format
· e.g. Do you enjoy cooking? I do
Content
Preferences / experiences
e.g. What food reminds you of your childhood? [...] desserts that my mum used to make [...]
Humorous anecdote
e.g. eating white mouse
Lack of controversial content / positive content (to promote Jimmy Osmond)
e.g. food / family / family man
Tidied up (spoken) language
e.g. no hesitations devices / no repetition / no rephrasing
Style
Informal / semi-formal / spokent style / colloquial lexis
e.g. Yummy, it’s fun, crunched up, so sick! / would take a year to explain
Lexical/grammatical
Direct speech
e.g. What's your favourite recipe?
Pun in the title
i.e. Celebrity Bites (what the celebrity eats vs. sound-bites)
Expressions / adverbs / adjectives to express attitude / feelings / opinions
e.g. it's fun, unfortunately, it’s so yummy, it’s amazing
· e.g. you in questions and I in answers
· Short answers / question tags e.g. I do, isn’t it?
Discourse
·
that's totally my mum, stuff, and boy
·
e.g. and
e.g. it's like a big art project,
Graphological
·
e.g. exclamation marks / dashes
b Question forms and features of connected speech in phrases in bold
cooking? (line 5)
Question Form
· Auxiliary / dummy auxiliary / operator / do
· Second person singular
· Subject pronoun (you)
· Base form / bare infinitive / infinitive without to of main verb (enjoy)
· Regular
· Transitive
· Present simple
· Yes/no question / closed question
· + gerund
· To ask about permanent states / something which is always true / stative verb
Features of connected speech
· Weak form of you /jə/or /j ʊ/ or do/də/
· Coalescence/assimilation of do you /ʤə/ or /ʤʊ / or /ʤu:/
· Intrusive /w/ between you and enjoy /dju:wɪnʤɔɪ/
· Stress is likely to be on enjoy
(line 8)
Question Form
· Third person singular
· Present simple
· Subject pronoun
· Question tag / tag question
· Main verb be inverted with the subject/pronoun
· Negative because main clause is affirmative
· Contracted
· Anaphoric reference to Presentation / cooking
· To involve the listener / ask for confirmation
Features of connected speech
· Consonant + vowel linking/liaison/catenation isn’t it
· Elision of first /t/ in /ɪzənɪt/
· Glottalisation/elision of second /t/ in /ɪzənɪʔ/
· insertion of a schwa /ə/ between /z/ and /n/
· Stress is likely to be on isn’t
(lines 59-60)
Question Form
· Interrogative determiner / question word What
· Uncountable
· Noun
· Subject
· Third person singular
· Regular
· Transitive
· Main verb
· Present simple
· No auxiliary
· Object pronoun you
· Wh /open question
· Subject question
· To ask about permanent states / something which is always true/stative verb
Features of connected speech
· Glottalisation/elision of /t/ in what /wɒʔ/
· Glottalisation/elision /d/ in food /fuːd/
· Assimilation between reminds you /rɪmaɪnʒʊ/
·
Weak form of you /jə/OR /jʊ/
· Stress likely to be on food, reminds (One example of stress is sufficient)
C Form and use of phrases in bold
(line 6)
Form
· Adverbial phrase / adverb
· Indefinite article a + (countable) noun bit
· Quantifier
Use
· Informal/colloquial/spoken
· Qualifying/modifying adjective artistic
· Weakens the adjective / hedges / non-boastful / non-proud
(line 25)
Form
· Adverb
Use
· Informal/colloquial/spoken
· Qualifying/modifying adjective good
· Intensifier not as strong as very
· Makes Jimmy sound modest OR boastful
(lines 28-29)
Form
· Reduced/contracted/abbreviated/clipped/shortened kind of
· Noun kind
· Preposition of
· Acts as an adverb
Use
· Informal/colloquial/spoken
· Common in American English
· Filler / vague language
· Qualifying/modifying adjective weird
· Weakens the adjective / hedges / implies not weird in a bad way
d. Use of relative pronoun and relative clauses in bold
that my mum used to make…(lines 61-64)
Relative pronoun
· That is used for things
· Anaphoric reference to the desserts
· That can be replaced by which but that is more common in spoken English
· That can be omitted because it is the object of the verb
Relative clause
· Defining
· Gives essential information about / specifies/identifies which desserts
· No comma is used
(lines 61-64)
Relative pronoun
· which is used to refer to things
· Anaphoric reference to the pudding
· which cannot be omitted because it is the subject of the clause
· that cannot be used instead of which
Relative clause
· Non-defining
· Gives extra/non-essential/additional information about the pudding
· Comma precedes the clause
…I think …(lines 74-76)
Relative pronoun
· Ellipsis / omission of that /which because it is the objet of the verb
· Anaphoric reference to the first thing
Relative clause
· Defining
· Gives essential information about / specifies The first thing
· No comma is used