Mass media text types
A popular type of text that is typically given in front of an audience, with the purpose of persuading them through well-thoughtout arguments and rhetorical techniques.
What is a speech/presentation/debate?
A private and typically informal text type that is usually written with the purpose of narrating and reflecting on one's day.
What is a diary (entry)?
A structured guide on e.g. how to do something, dos and donts, or how to behave, which uses a clear and easy-to-follow layout and the imperative voice.
What are instructions?
Idiom that implies that someone is quite refreshing as a person.
What is "a breath of fresh air"?
What is pink?
A slightly more difficult text type, which requires the writer to both explain and argue for their opinions on a specific type of media, in order to create interest and cast judgment on it.
What is a review?
An newer text type used for communicating your thoughts to an online community, often with the purpose of discussing a topic and perhaps even responding to something others have written.
What is social media post(ing)?
What is an essay?
Idiom used to describe how someone has suddenly changed their mind.
What is "to have a change of heart"?
What is making (beaded) jewellery/earrings?
Possibly the most challenging of the media text types, as it contains elements of both the article and spoken interaction, all while exploring a topic or person in an interesting and informative manner.
What is an (embedded) interview?
What is an e-mail?
A text type that aims to promote and/or inform a wide audience in an engaging manner and with an easy-to-follow layout.
What is leaflet/brochure/pamphlet/flyer?
An idiom that means that something is really easy.
What is "a piece of cake"?
The nerdy name of your English teacher's adorable French bulldog.
Who is Neville?
This text type is similar to an opinion column in that is also aims to express and argue for an opinion clearly, but it has a layout more similar to written correspondence and is typically a response to something.
What is a letter to the editor?
An lively text type that is used to read an online audience of typically like-minded people, with the purpose of informing and/or persuading in an engaging and lively manner.
A text that aims to convince a specified receiver to follow a suggested solution or proposition, with a formal tone and a structered layout with e.g. bullet points and sub-headings.
What is a proposal?
Idiom used to say that something, such as a decision or plans, is still uncertain or undecided.
What is "to be up in the air"?
The eventful year in which your English teacher got married.
What is/was 2020?
A broad type of media text, which can be written with many different approaches, whose aim is typically to inform and explore a news topic in an interesting way, by looking at the bigger picture.
What is an article (magazine, newspaper)?
What is a personal statement?
A formal professional text type that sets out to explain, in a authoritative and objective manner, with the purpose of providing a neutral account and analysis of a situation in a structured manner.
What is an official report?
Quite formal-sounding idiom that means "as things stand" or "with the situation being what it is".
What is "be that as it may"?
Your English teacher's favourite book of all time.
What is Pride & Prejudice?