837. Describing a Car Accident in 15+ Styles of English 🚗 📄

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

How would the same car accident be described in over 15 completely different styles of English?

What are the differences in vocabulary, grammar and organisational structure?

How should I change my voice to read each description?

Let's see how English changes in different situations.

Styles presented include:

formal and informal English,
news reports,
an action movie screenplay,
an Eminem rap, a romantic novel,
a Shakespeare play,
a politician making a speech,
a stand-up comedian,
Liam Neeson in the film Taken,
and Luke in an episode of Luke's English Podcast.

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0:43.0	Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English podcast. I hope you're doing fine. In fact I hope you're more than fine today. I hope you're splendid or radiant or perhaps even ebullient not that
1:05.0	is normally uses those words but anyway I hope you're fantastic but if you're just fine then that is wonderful
1:09.0	anyway welcome back in this episode we're going to describe a car accident in various different
1:16.4	styles of English. To be honest, it doesn't have to be a car accident. It could be a description
1:22.1	of anything really. The main thing is I just want to show how English
1:26.9	changes depending on the situation. I chose a description of a car accident because I thought
1:32.4	it might be quite an easy thing to describe in different ways.
1:36.0	But the focus here is not on the car accident, but on the different styles of English.
1:42.0	So we're going to describe the same accident again and
1:44.8	again but in different styles. For example, literary style, informal conversational
1:51.2	style, academic style,
1:53.6	in the style of a movie screenplay,
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