Sunday, 2 February 2014

Language and Power Extracts

Leader's speech, Manchester 2013
David Cameron -
 
 
Cosmopolitan Interview with Miley Cyrus  -
 
 
OUTNUMBERED script -
 
Dad is clearing up breakfast stuff with a phone tucked under his chin.

DAD: That feelslike a lot of work for a school talent competition (He speaks into the phone with exaggerated pronunciation you use whenyou are speaking to a machine) Y-e-s. But it’s great you’re taking part, y-e-s…..(mutters) stupid machine.
BEN: I could do the magic trick I did with, Gran. Herface when she thought I’d smashed her watch with that hammer.
DAD: Well….you had.
BEN: Yeh…..I still don’t know what went wrong there.
DAD: (into phone) Y-e-s
BEN: I think it was the wrong kind of hammer
DAD: No, I said y-e-s.
BEN: Still, Gran likes her new watch.

MUM enters shouting behind her.

MUM: Look Karen, if both socks have got holes in,they match, just put them on!(She starts tidying up)
DAD: I didn’t say No….
JAKE: Yeh, just now. You said ‘No I said ‘Yes’.

KAREN for some reason, has a washing-up bowl full of water and is cutting a shape out of some cardboard.

BEN: I couldalways sing… (sings in hisdeep voice) ‘And I said to myself…..’
DAD: (still to phone) ‘Go back’
BEN: ‘What a wonderful world’
DAD: ‘Go back’
JAKE: Yeh, the only disadvantage to singing is….that you can’t.
BEN: OK I’ve got loads more ideas here. (He hands a list to DAD)
DAD: Er… impractical… illegal… suicidal, Ben, you don’t even know what the ‘Wall of Death’ is… ‘Go back’…
DAD Ben!.... Look at the time, teeth.
MUM: (To JAKE) Jake, you shouldn’t discourage him. It’s not good for his confidence.
In the background DAD continues to struggle with the phone.
JAKE: Will it be good forhis confidence when the whole school laughs at him?

The bell rings.

MUM: (has got some food muck in her hands) Oh….Who’s that?

Karen shouts.

KAREN (OOV): A man in a suit
DAD: See what he wants, and if he’s a cold caller just do your stuff!
KAREN (OOV): Ok
DAD: (To the phone) Gob-oh, f… ‘no –I wouldn’t –like –to –start -again, I would -like-to-kill-myself’

Karen opens the door to a smart man in a suit. But she only opens the door a tiny bit, with the chain across.

ARMITAGE: Hello…
KAREN: They’re busy
ARMITAGE: Um….Can I speak to your Mum and Dad?
KAREN: You’ve just asked the question I answered. I’m sorry but Mum and Dad don’t speak to cold callers.
ARMITAGE: I’m not a cold caller
KAREN: Do we know you?
ARMITAGE: No, but…
KAREN: Did we know you were going to call?
ARMITAGE: No, however…
KAREN: I think that makes you a cold caller
The Guardian 
Language is vital, not just to communicate
 
 
Educating Essex
Dialogue Between teacher and student
 
TEACHER: Come in, welcome

STUDENT: Hi

T: Grab some paper from the front, I'll go get you a text book

S: Right

T: Can you do some work?

S: Sir, what am I doing?

T: The big one

Student is stood, still not working

T: Okay, you need to sit down and do your detention. Sit down

S: I'm starving

T: So, cause you obviously want to pass your art GCSE you made sure that you went to Mr Gower's coursework detention?

S: Yeah but I forgot

T: There we are. Thank you very much

S: Errrr... that's silly though

T: Sorry, do you want me to let you fail your GCSEs?

S: I'm not gonna fail

T: Do you want me to let you fail?

S: No, but
T: No, and unfortunately, when a teacher says you need to do some study work, coursework, revision work or whatever, you need to attend. Thank you. Okay, next

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