Formal and informal register

1. FORMAL AND
INFORMAL
REGISTER

2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITING
•Informal
•Formal

3. INFORMAL VS. FORMAL
What’s up? my people
my name is Chris Brown Good Morning students, I am
and Mr. Smith and it is very nice to
this ‘my boy Lil’Wayne meet you all.
We’re rappers, we will Let me introduce you to
show you how you do it. formal and informal register.

4. INFORMAL
Mr. Owner
• I can’t eat school dinners anymore. I think that
stuff’s nasty. Why do I have to keep eating chips,
burgers, sweets, etc I eat at school 5 days a week
and I am tired of it. Me and my friends are sick of
eating garbage. Also why don’t you give the
students more food?
• See U
• Juan

5. FORMAL
• To the restaurant manager:
• I purchased lunch from your restaurant during the
week. The diet at this high school should be
healthier. It is Important nowadays to have a fat
free diet. Food must be well-balanced and
sufficient
• I have been a regular customer at your shop for
several years. However, if this is to be the standard
of the produce, I shall take my custom elsewhere in
future.
• Yours faithfully
• Juan P.Lopez
• Juan P. Lopez

6. FORMAL REGISTER
• FORMAL
• Words are
• long
• rare
• abstract
• specific
• of French, Latin or Greek origin
• Jargon(scientific, technical language)

7. INFORMAL REGISTER
• INFORMAL
• Words are
• short
• common
• concrete
• general
• slang
• Colloquial style

8. DIFFERENCES
• FORMAL
• Formal texts are impersonal, objective and neutral
• Formal texts are tentative and indirect
• Longer paragraphs, tightly organised
• INFORMAL
• Informal texts are direct, straightforward
• Looser organisation, may rely on short paragraphs
• Personal, subjective and emotive

9. FORMAL AND INFORMAL
Informal to formal means moving from the kind of
speech we would use when talking with friends
colloquial, Jargon, poetic. Less than informal=
Vulgar.
I can’t go there because I got sick, I probably
end up going to the hospital
FORMAL Means sophisticated writing or speaking
you use at your job, meetings, academic writing,
cultural, business.
Good morning:
‘I will be unable to attend this afternoon’s
appointment
as I have contracted an infection, for which I will
need to visit the doctor.’

10. WHICH ONE IS THE INFORMAL?
The job done was You done a really bad
unsatisfactory job!!
performed. The Painting was incomplete
painting was e.g.
incomplete and the lots of equipment left
equipment was left lying
unattended. around – which took me
Furthermore, the 2
situation took two weeks to clear up!! I am
weeks to address. This is totally
completely
unacceptable. raging!! U owe me a
refund
An immediate refund
is requested or legal for the work you are
done. I’ll get a lawyer