Gèneres textuals
- Històries i Contes (Narrativa).
- Cartes formals de queixа.
- Discurs oral i escrit adaptat a la situació comunicativa.
- Exposicions sobre temes personals.
- Anècdotes.
- Missatges de veu.
- Informes (reports).
- Notícies.
- Actes de mediació.
Lèxic
- Ús de metàfores i frases fetes Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Famílies lèxiques sinònims, antònims, mots polisèmics.
- Collocations burst into tears, took the plunge, etc..
- Eufemismes passed away.
- Adjectius compostos 10-storey building, crystal-clear.
- Reformulació so to speak, that is to say, namely, in other words.
- Introducció de temes as regards, regarding, as for, with reference to.
- Connectors per relacionar parts del text.
- Lèxic específic per expressar sentiments de gust/plaer i disgust davant les experiències viscudes, eg: His attitude drove me up the wall!
- Lèxic temàtic eg. la infantesa, objectes que ens defineixen, orígens, llocs i la seva història, somnis i imaginacions, secrets personals, històries d’activistes i de persones públiques, time-capsules, etc..
Continguts gramaticals
- Possessius: usos especials last weekend’s experience; next Sunday’s roast.
- Passiva amb transitius dobles I was told / made to wait outside.
- Hedging: “Apparently, According to the experts, It’s said that”
- L’estil indirecte amb verbs enunciatius He insisted he had never been there.
- Participis de present i passat per enriquir les formes narratives més comuns Being exhausted, I could not think clearly.
- El substantiu com a complement del nom, eg. computer skills, labour market.
- Ordre dels adjectius en posició atributiva separats per comes:Panettone is a tasty, round, Italian, bread-like Christmas cake.
- Verb patterns : She suggested we should hurry; They suggested calling again.
- Unreal past: amb formes perifràstiques que inclouen had better, would rather, I wish en passat I wish you had told me i seguit de would I wish you wouldn’t speak like that.
- Tag questions, short answers, reply questions en casos especials Open the window, would you?.
- Inversions No sooner had I got out of the car than she saw me.
- Fronting: The other list, we just ignored it; Ten years, we lived there.
- Cleft sentences: It was my husband who [or that] you spoke to on the phone; It’s the parents who were protesting most.
- La veu passiva per distanciar-se al narrar.